Apr 28, 2023
Cision Heart and Stroke Foundation
OTTAWA, ON, April 25, 2023 /CNW/ – Heart & Stroke welcomes the much-anticipated policy update and consultations from Health Canada proposing restrictions on the advertising of unhealthy food and beverages to children under the age of 13.
“Kids are bombarded with ads for unhealthy food and beverages everywhere they turn – from websites and social media to product packaging and retail settings – and they deserve to be protected,” says Doug Roth, CEO, Heart & Stroke. “We are encouraged to see progress on the development of regulations that would restrict marketing to kids and look forward to reviewing Health Canada’s proposed policy. We will continue to advocate for regulations restricting the marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to kids across all types of media by fall 2023.”
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/health-canada-takes-kids-health-to-heart-with-nutrition-policy-update-843689074.html
Mar 24, 2023
By Jenny Chen
The researchers took brain scans of 145 school-aged children. They also asked the caregivers to identify whether their kids had exhibited any symptoms of excessive guilt, such as apologizing constantly for minor misbehavior or feeling guilty about things that had happened a long time ago. The researchers found that feelings of extreme guilt correlated highly with smaller anterior insulas.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/childhood-guilt-adult-depression/384176/
Mar 21, 2023
Nemours Kids Health – Staff Writer
You exercise all the time without even thinking of it. When you run around outside or play kickball at school, you are exercising. What else counts as exercise? Playing sports, dancing, and doing push-ups. Even reaching down to touch your toes! When you exercise, you make your body stronger. So be active every day. Your body will thank you!
Read More: https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/work-it-out.html
Mar 10, 2023
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry – Staff Writer
Pets are part of many children’s lives. Parental involvement, open discussion, and planning are necessary to help make pet ownership a positive experience for everyone. A child who learns to care for an animal, and treat it kindly and patiently, may get invaluable training in learning to treat people the same way.
Read More: https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Families/FFF-Guide/Pets-And-Children-075.aspx
Mar 3, 2023
John Muir Health – staff writer
With the teen years come a tremendous amount of changes. Your teen will grow emotionally, functionally, and intellectually, developing a sense of independence, identity, and self-esteem.
Read More: https://www.johnmuirhealth.com/health-education/health-wellness/childrens-health/nutrition-teens.html
Feb 24, 2023
Healthline – Jamie Reno
Maybe those gym classes in school weren’t such a waste of time after all.
Authors of a new study on childhood obesity say that providing additional physical education to young children is effective in preventing childhood obesity.
The studyTrusted Source was published today in Obesity, The Obesity Society’s flagship journal.
The importance of the schoolchildren physical activity study
“Our study proves that a sustainable, long-lasting and well-planed school-based physical activity program at both the individual and the population level is beneficial in preventing and treating childhood obesity, and it is especially helpful to those needing support the most e.g., children with excess weight,” Petra Jurić, DSc, a research associate at the University of Zagreb in Croatia and a corresponding author of the study, told Healthline.
“Our study focused on physical activity only, it proves that changing even one behavior without changing anything else can reverse obesity cases among children and adolescents,” she added. “Therefore, policy-makers and funding bodies should be aware that obesity is a chronic condition that needs to be dealt with over a longer time frame, and that easy solutions and immediate effects are neither realistic nor sustainable.”
“Hopefully our study will start positive changes toward smarter policies where our results will help incentivize people who make decisions to address physical activity more carefully together with other behaviors such as diet and sleep,” Juric said.
How the school physical activity program works
Between 2011 and 2018, the Healthy Lifestyle program was a nationwide intervention introduced in 216 Slovenian schools with more than 34,000 participants.
The intervention provided two additional physical education lessons in the first through sixth grades and three additional lessons in the seventh to ninth grades.
Once children obtained written parental consent, their participation was compulsory. The intervention was offered to all children in an individual school and organized as an elective course.
The maximum number of children per class was between 16 and 30.
Maroje Sorić, PhD, the head of the Physical Activity Measurement and Surveillance Laboratory at the University of Zagreb and one of the study’s senior authors, said in a press statement that the study “analyzed only the effectiveness of such a program for obesity prevention, physical activity programs are likely to benefit growth and development, improve fitness, enhance mental health and boost the cognitive performance of the children, and should be a cornerstone of educational and health policies.”
Some concerns about the study
However, some experts on obesity told Healthline that the new study is not ideal.
Dr. Dan Bessesen, a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Anschutz Foundation Endowed Chair in Health and Wellness, had some trepidation about the study.
“This is not a definitive study,” Bessesen told Healthline. “It may breathe some life into the idea that school-based interventions could be helpful but given the fact that previous studies have been more rigorous and did not show clear benefits, this study is not a game changer in my opinion.”
Dr. Caroline Apovian, a past president of The Obesity Society and co-director of the Center for Weight Management and Wellness as well as a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, agreed with Besseson.
Apovian told Healthline that the study “compared those children who volunteered to participate in the exercise program with those who did not volunteer, and found that over the years those who volunteered decreased body mass index (BMI) more than those who did not volunteer.”
But, she added, “They even say in the study that in general over those same years obesity was declining.”
Apovian said the study “falls short” of being a definitive work in this population.
“There is really nothing new here. Exercise is good for you and may even assist in decreasing BMI as seems to be shown here, but to say that it prevents and treats obesity is a wildly exaggerated connection to me. We can poke holes in this study,” she said.
Some of the holes, she added, have to do with study design and analysis of the data, but the biggest hole or gap is between what the study actually shows and what was concluded.
“I do not think this study shows that exercise can prevent and treat obesity in children,” Apovian said. “I think they should have concluded that exercise seems to intensify the background decrease in BMI and that perhaps this was accomplished by influencing those children who would want to exercise by having a time and place for them to do so.”
Read More: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/exercise-and-childhood-obesity-how-effective-are-school-based-physical-activity-programs#The-importance-of-the-schoolchildren-physical-activity-study
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Dec 31, 2022
Medical X-Press – Cara Murez
As many as 220,000 young people under the age of 20 could have type 2 diabetes in 2060, which would represent a nearly eight-fold increase, a research team that included scientists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. Type 1 diabetes cases could increase, too, by as much as 65% in the next 40 years.
Read More: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-surging-teens-diabetes.html
Dec 31, 2022
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
If your infant or child is older than 6 months and has a fever, they probably do not need to be treated for the fever unless they are uncomfortable. The key is to watch your child’s behavior. If they are drinking, eating and sleeping normally, and they are able to play, you do not need to treat the fever. Instead, you should wait to see if the fever improves by itself.
Read More: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-pediatrician-child-fever.html
