The Guardian – Jessica Murray
More than two thirds of parents don’t know how much exercise their child needs to do to stay healthy, new research has revealed. Official NHS guidance states that children aged five to 18 should do an hour of exercise every day, but 68% of UK adults didn’t know this or thought the target was lower.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/23/parents-dont-know-how-much-exercise-children-need
Medical X-Press – Dennis Thompson
Suicides among teens have especially spiked, with an annual percentage change of 10% between 2014 and 2017 for 15- to 19-year-olds, researchers said. “It really is an unprecedented surge,” said lead author Oren Miron, a research associate at Harvard Medical School in Boston. “You can go back decades and you won’t find such a sharp increase.”
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-youth-suicide-year-high.html
Medical X-Press – Lindsey Tanner
Preschoolers on government food aid have grown a little less pudgy, a U.S. study found, offering fresh evidence that previous signs of declining obesity rates weren’t a fluke. Obesity rates dropped steadily to about 14% in 2016—the latest data available—from 16% in 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-preschoolers-pudgy-latest-falling-obesity.html
Medical X-Press – Tim Olds
Nike’s London store recently introduced a plus-sized mannequin to display its active clothing range which goes up to a size 32. The mannequin triggered a cascade of responses ranging from outrage to celebration. One side argues that the mannequin normalizes obesity and leads obese people to feel that they are healthy when in fact they are not. The other side argues the representations are inclusive, combat fat stigma and encourage fat women to exercise.
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
Adolescents who see themselves as puny and who exercise to gain weight may be at risk of so-called muscularity-oriented disordered eating behaviors, say researchers led by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. The researchers found that 22 percent of males and 5 percent of females ages 18-to-24 exhibit these disordered eating behaviors, which are defined as including at least one of the following: eating more or differently to gain weight or bulk up, and use of dietary supplements or anabolic steroids to achieve the same goal.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-young-men-women-engage-disordered.html