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Excess Bad Stomach Bacteria Caused by Western Diet

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

The bacteria of the digestive system, both good and bad, are much in the news. Researchers from the University of Florence have found the children in an African village, breast fed until the age of two and who ate a largely vegetarian diet (including the occasional termite for fiber) had vastly different good and bad [...]

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Why Eating Lunch Can Be Bad For Your Health

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Here’s some research parents will want to hear about… more than one in three middle schoolers who eat school lunches are either obese or overweight, and are also more likely to have high bad cholesterol levels than kids who bring a lunch from home.
It seems that efforts to make healthier choices a [...]

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Third Hand Smoke New Danger…

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

We’ve all heard of “second hand smoke,” the result as smokers exhale and send carcinogens into the air around them. The harmful effects of second hand smoke are well established. Third hand smoke is less familiar.
The term was coined in 2009 by doctors out of Mass General Hospital for Children, and is [...]

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3 Home Habits to Stay Slim

Thursday, March 18, 2010

In the March 2010 issue of Pediatrics, researchers are set to reveal some unexpected weapons in the fight against childhood obesity – and all three are directly under your control.
It seems that family behaviors can have a significant impact on preschool children, helping them maintain a normal weight, and perhaps delivering [...]

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Why Kids Ask Why

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Any parent who has experienced the endless “why?” of a child can attest to how exasperating it can be – Especially at the end of a hectic day or as you’re rushing to get out of the house.
Experts believe that these endless queries are honest attempts to get to the truth, and kids respond better [...]

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Dirt Is Actually Good For Kids

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

A team of U.S. researchers has come to the conclusion mother’s (and likely Mother Nature) have known for some time – That kids should be allowed to get dirty so they are exposed to germs in the environment.
Super clean hands were actually shown to hinder the ability to heal because the normal bacteria that live [...]

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Vitamin D intake in children is shockingly low

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

The findings of the latest nationwide study on vitamin D level brings more evidence that children as well as adults are lacking this important nutrient with vitamin D intake at a shockingly low level.
The numbers of adults without enough vitamin D made news a year ago, but experts like Dr. Michal L. Melamed of the [...]

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