Using diet modification to treat a child’s behavior problems has been popular and controversial since the 1920s. Like fad weight-loss diets, it seems there is always a new behavior-modification diet to give parents hope. Though, again, like the latest weight-loss diet, there is very little proof of long-lasting results.
One of the most popular of [...]
Parents are important models for their children. Children watch the actions of parents and other adults, and learn from what they see. One lesson children learn is how to maintain their health, including exercise habits.
Overweight parents are at an increased risk of having children with weight problems — and overweight children are more likely to [...]
The connection between belly fat and the brain intensified last week. Many Americans have obsessed about abdominal fat for, oh, decades. A new study from the Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente Division of Research revealed that people who have large waistlines in their 40s are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia conditions in [...]
In a study of 15 teenage girls, the investigated looked at the feasibility of using GPS-enabled cell phones to track adolescents whereabouts when they were away from home or school.
The researchers found that the girls were happy to take the phones with them wherever they went, and that the GPS accurately plotted their travels over [...]
“I can’t stand missing school, and I’ll try to keep outside symptoms to a minimum,” said Demmel, 18, of Lincoln Park. Demmel packs cough drops and takes over-the-counter medication so she doesn’t disturb her classmates. And though it’s tolerable to sit through a statistics seminar with a sore throat or slight fever, there are times [...]
Yet the woman did not investigate the possibility that Dilling had AIDS, even after her own health began to decline in summer 1999, Freeman said.”She ignored each and every fact that pointed to the truth, which was that Albert had a very serious health problem and she%26#8212;having had unprotected sexual relations with him%26#8212;was [...]
Study: Canadian researchers looked at how often children who arrive in a hospital ER department have been taking pharmaceutical medications alongside natural health products and the potential interactions. The natural products included vitamins, ginger, echinacea and St. John’s wort. The study’s lead author, Dr. Ran Goldman, is now head of the ER at British [...]
Sadly, this is a big lie.If I’m as fit/wonderful/appealing as a 30-year-old, does this imply that the 30-year-old is as fit/wonderful, etc as a 10-year-old? Extrapolating further, is the 20-year-old as fit/wonderful, etc, as a foetus? The statement “50 is the new 30″ necessitates a fundamental disruption in the time-space continuum - requires that, between [...]
Premature birth and low birth weight have been recognized in earlier studies as risk factors for a number of developmental problems, including autism and other illnesses.
But the study of 91 children, who were born around between 7 and 14 weeks prematurely and weighed 3.3 pounds (1.5 kg) or less at birth, was the first to [...]
A sleep survey of almost 8000 American, English, Canadian, Australian and Kiwi babies aged up to three years revealed young New Zealanders slept best.
They woke less during the night than the international average and were less likely to sleep in their parents room.
They also got to bed earlier, slept longer and were easier to settle [...]
