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By: Melissa Schenkman, MPH, MSJ Every day 23.1 million people over the age of 18 inject themselves with insulin and count their carbohydrates before eating because they are living with type 1 diabetes. Many of them are millennials. They are in our college classes, are our colleagues at the office, and are working out beside
By: Melissa Schenkman, MPH, MSJ The signs were all there, but I just couldn’t see them. A little more tired than normal, I still went out for my daily run. After, I developed a low-grade fever. A few short hours later, I had a sore throat, cough, and a stuffy nose. By the time the
Marking Milestones: How Millennial Parents’ Resources Can and Cannot Change the Speed of Development
By: Melissa Schenkman, MPH, MSJ Congratulations! You’re going to have a baby. Now what? As you know, the world is a very different place than when our parents got the good news. As millennials, we face the battle of constant connectivity to everyone, including our employers. And across the socioeconomic spectrum there are more households
By: Alex Edelson Do you often wake up and immediately start thinking about your doubts, fears, worries, and embarrassments? How about your 9am meeting, a fight with your friend or a parent? And, oh yeah, how about that you’re definitely going to be late for that meeting? We all find ourselves following thoughts and feelings
By: Kristen DeCaires, MPH, PMP Chances are, you or someone you know has practiced yoga at least once. It originated in India thousands of years ago, but its following has caught on relatively recently in the United States, particularly with millennials. Since 2012, the number of people who claim to practice yoga has increased by
By: Melissa Schenkman, MPH, MSJ We are just two weeks into the New Year, so there’s still plenty of time to make those resolutions and stick with them. Many millennials make the commitment to be healthier without defining a roadmap on how to get there. Do you want to improve your diet? Your mental clarity?
By: Melissa Schenkman, MPH, MSJ When Janelle Buday started cosmetology school, she never would have thought that coloring, cutting, and styling clients’ hair would affect her lower back. Like most millennials, Buday’s focus was on everything else but her own aches and pains. Plus, the more she got into the beauty industry, the more she
By: Alex Edelson Are you a millennial who would rather face your biggest fear instead of making a dentist appointment? That shouldn’t be the case. Avoiding the dentist cannot only lead to infections and pain in your mouth, but it can actually affect your life far beyond your teeth. Think about it. When you first
By Melissa Schenkman, MPH, MSJ It’s a subject you just don’t want to talk about. Anything related to our gastrointestinal tract (GI), the part of your body that digests food, absorbs nutrients, and expels waste, (to put it kindly), seems to be something best kept behind closed doors. But you can’t escape the headlines highlighting