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Copper Canyon AcademyCOPPER CANYON ACADMEY is an all girls school in Rimrock, Arizona. COPPER CANYON ACADEMY offers an extremely comprehensive therapeutic program for girls and their families through individual, group, and animal therapy. There are also parent seminars and family workshops. All of the therapists who work with the teenage girls and their families at COPPER CANYON ACADEMY are licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Services.


EXCEL ACADEMY
EXCEL ACADEMY has a Junior High School, a College Prep High School, and a College program, enabling us to help preteens, teens, and young adults. EXCEL ACADEMY boasts a compelling history of success with students who have had previous school or therapeutic failures. EXCEL ACADEMY offers an intensely effective milieu without the look and feel of traditional programs and places a heavy emphasis on ensuring that all students feel safe and part of "the family" regardless of past environment, behavior, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or history of abuse or trauma.

Watching TV and Video Games Linked to Teens' High Blood Pressure

A new study links watching television to high blood pressure in teenagers.

A research team led by Dr. Nicolas Stettler, a pediatric nutrition specialist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, studied over 4,500 American adolescents ages 12 to 19 years old who took part in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. They found that sedentary activities and higher body mass indexes were associated with higher systolic blood pressure.

Dr. Stettler said that other studies have shown that decreasing sedentary activities such as watching television and playing video games helps treat obesity better than interventions that increase physical activity.

High blood pressure in adolescents is a marker for hypertension in adulthood. Hypertension is a risk factor for heart disease and strokes.

This study appears in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

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