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Four Rules for a Healthy Lifestyle, animated for Harvard Medical School

As part of Harvard Medical School’s Reflection in Action: Building Healthy Communities™ program, LineStorm Animation students from three different Boston Public Schools previsualized, designed and animated this hand-drawn educational short to emphasize four basic rules for a healthy lifestyle: 1. Eat a Good Diet. 2. Get Regular Exercise. 3. Keep Good Hygiene. 4. Get Enough […]

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3. Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development

Learning how to cope with adversity is an important part of healthy development. While moderate, short-lived stress responses in the body can promote growth, toxic stress is the strong, unrelieved activation of the body’s stress management system in the absence of protective adult support. Without caring adults to buffer children, the unrelenting stress caused by