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12/17/15 - Slow eating keeps childhood obesity at bay, study finds

12/17/15 Slow eating keeps childhood obesity at bay, study finds

News-Medical.net

 

That's the conclusion of a study published in the Dec. 15 issue of the journal Pediatric Obesity by an international team of researchers, including bioengineers at ...

12/10/15 - Cholesterol Levels Are a Problem for Many US Kids

12/10/15 Cholesterol Levels Are a Problem for Many US Kids

Live Science

 

High cholesterol levels are more common in children who are obese, the report found. Among obese children in the study, 11.6 percent had high total ...

12/8/15 - Kids With Allergies May Have a Higher Risk of Heart Disease Later

12/8/15 Kids With Allergies May Have a Higher Risk of Heart Disease Later

TIME

 

“It may very well be that soaring rates of allergic diseases in past decades have impacted the heart disease rates in this country,” says Silverberg. And that goes ...

12/7/15 - Pediatricians Unveil New Recommendations for Office Visits

12/7/15 Pediatricians Unveil New Recommendations for Office Visits

Live Science

 

Obese children and teens are more likely to have high cholesterol, which is a risk factor for heart disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

12/3/15 - World's First Child-Friendly TB Medicines in Correct Doses

12/3/15 World's First Child-Friendly TB Medicines in Correct Doses

Infection Control Today

 

The World Health Organization (WHO) joined the TB Alliance and partners today to announce the availability of child-friendly tuberculosis (TB) medicines in the ...

12/3/15 - Support grows to increase Mass. smoking age to 21

12/3/15 Support grows to increase Mass. smoking age to 21

Wicked Local

 

Senate President Stanley Rosenberg supports raising the legal age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21, a proposal already adopted by nearly 80 ...

12/1/15 - Obesity In Youngsters Leading Cause Of Cardiac Death

12/1/15 Obesity In Youngsters Leading Cause Of Cardiac Death

Health Aim

 

Obesity in youngsters or being overweight is being labelled as the leading cause of them developing cardiac conditions. Being puffy is alright because it means ...

11/23/15 - Obesity and Stress May Push Girls' Puberty Earlier

11/23/15 Obesity and Stress May Push Girls' Puberty Earlier

Medscape

Obesity and stress are the two main drivers of early puberty in girls, and early puberty comes with physical and psychologic repercussions, said Louise ...

11/9/15 - Negative body image, not depression, increases adolescent obesity ...

11/9/15 Negative body image, not depression, increases adolescent obesity ...

Medical Xpress

Negative body image significantly increases the risk of obesity regardless of whether youth have depression, according to researchers at The University of Texas ...

11/6/15 - Interventions to reduce childhood obesity may cut health care costs

11/6/15 Interventions to reduce childhood obesity may cut health care costs

Healio

Interventions early in the life course have the best chance of reducing long-term obesity prevalence and related mortality and health care costs,” Gortmaker said ...

11/5/15 - Stressed Latino parents twice as likely to have children with obesity

11/5/15 Stressed Latino parents twice as likely to have children with obesity

News-Medical.net

Prior research has shown that stress is associated with obesity in adults, and now for ... Latino parents who feel high levels of stress are twice as likely to have ...

11/2/15 - New Study Uncovers Attitudes of African-American Children toward ...

11/2/15 New Study Uncovers Attitudes of African-American Children toward ...

University of Cincinnati

The childhood obesity epidemic in the United States has been growing for decades. A new study focusing on African-American children shows how the issue ...

10/30/15 - AAP releases multiple policies to protect youths from tobacco, nicotine

10/30/15 AAP releases multiple policies to protect youths from tobacco, nicotine

AAP News

The policies call for raising the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21 years; urge pediatricians to screen patients for use of tobacco and nicotine delivery devices; and address tobacco dependence in parents as part of pediatric health care. The ...

10/30/15 - Mother's Breast Milk May Influence Risk Of Obesity In Children, As ...

10/30/15 Mother's Breast Milk May Influence Risk Of Obesity In Children, As ...

Medical Daily

A newborn's risk of becoming obese could be determined by his mother's breast milk, according to new findings from the University of Southern California.

10/29/15 - Cutting Sugar from Diet is Helpful in Reducing Obesity

10/29/15 Cutting Sugar from Diet is Helpful in Reducing Obesity

Northern Californian

For nine consecutive days, researchers reduced sugar intake of 43 Latino and African-American obese children, ages nine to 19 and with at least one chronic ...

10/26/15 - Many Schools Failing on Type 1 Diabetes Care

10/26/15 Many Schools Failing on Type 1 Diabetes Care

New York Times

 

Officials at their neighborhood kindergarten and a nearby private academy said he would not be allowed to attend because he has Type 1 diabetes.

10/15/15 - Stimulants Safe in Children With ADHD and Heart Disease

10/15/15 Stimulants Safe in Children With ADHD and Heart Disease

Medscape

Stimulant medication for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) does ...

10/9/15 - FDA announces launch of new education campaign to prevent ...

10/9/15 FDA announces launch of new education campaign to prevent ...

News-Medical.net

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the launch of a national public education campaign to prevent and reduce tobacco use among ...

10/8/15 - Limiting consumption of sugary drinks helps combat childhood and ...

10/8/15 Limiting consumption of sugary drinks helps combat childhood and ...

News-Medical.net

More than one-third of children in the United States ages 6 to 19 years old are overweight or obese. Over the past 30 years, the number of obese adolescents ...

10/5/15 - Late Nights, Early Mornings: When Teens Stay Up Late They Put ...

10/5/15 Late Nights, Early Mornings: When Teens Stay Up Late They Put ...

Medical Daily

In the last 30 years alone, obesity rates have quadrupled in adolescents, adding to the 34.9 percent of the country's adult obesity population. "Obesity is ...