May 24, 2017
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
“Enforcing rules about bedtimes could help your child get the sleep they need on weekdays, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Public Health. The study, conducted by researchers at Public Health Ontario, Canada, found that when parents actively enforce a bedtime during the week, their children were more likely to meet established sleep guidelines. Neither encouraging nor enforcing a bedtime had an effect on sleep at the weekend.”(more)
May 23, 2017
Fox News – Julie Revelant
“With about one-third of children in the United States who are overweight or obese, most parents know their kids should be getting at least an hour of exercise each day. Exercise not only helps with weight control, but it helps kids build healthy muscles, bones and joints, improves their self-esteem, helps them sleep better, and may even prevent depression later on in life, a January 2017 study in the journal Pediatrics found. However, experts say the time to get kids moving isn’t when they take their first steps but rather weeks after they’re born.”(more)
May 23, 2017
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
“Less than 50 per cent of adolescents in the UK eat fruit or vegetables every day, according to the latest research from the University of St Andrews. However, in a new international study, researchers also found that young people in the UK are eating fewer sweets and drinking less fizzy juice than they did 15 years ago. The findings are part of an international WHO (World Health Organization) report into childhood obesity to be presented at a major meeting in Portugal today (Wednesday 17 May 2017). The report, which looked at the health and wellbeing of young people around the world, examined their behaviours over a 12 year period (2002 to 2014).”(more)
May 22, 2017
Minn Post – Andy Steiner
“A child’s life is a bed of roses — or at least that’s how might seem to an adult burdened with the cares of the grownup world. But most children carry their own share of worries, some passing and developmentally appropriate, but others as heavy and overwhelming as any adult’s. Hal Pickett, Psy.D, LP, ABPP, director, client services at Headway Emotional Health Services, a Twin Cities-based mental health support program for families, has been treating children with anxiety disorder for more than two decades. In his clinical psychology practice, Pickett works closely with children and their parents to understand the difference between normal and clinical anxiety, and to provide tools for overcoming these sometimes-crippling obstacles.”(more)
May 22, 2017
Medical X-Press – Amy Norton
“Several new recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics may just send toddlers into tantrums. One recommendation is that fruit juice be limited for toddlers and older children, and babies shouldn’t have any at all before their first birthday. Another recommendation is that parents should forgo the beloved sippy cup for their children altogether. The advice is the first update to the AAP’s stance on fruit juice in 16 years.The major change is that fruit juice is discouraged for the first year of life—and not just the first six months, as previously recommended.”(more)
