The Indian Express – Staff Writer
Exercise is an essential way of keeping ourselves fit. But how much exercise should one do to stay healthy? Turns out a lot of parents are unaware. In a new study from Youth Sport Trust (YST), two-thirds of the parents surveyed in the UK did not know that children aged 5-18 should do an hour of exercise every day.
Medical X-Press – Carolyn Levinn
Scientists at the University of Oregon are working to establish a new model for the study and prevention of childhood stress-related diseases. Two recent studies, done under the direction of Philip Fisher of the UO Center for Translational Neuroscience, approach this from different angles. One probed the underlying mechanisms of child-supportive parenting coaching and the other focused on the early detection of stress-related mental health disorders in children.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-07-approach-stress-parents-kids.html
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
A program with clear rules, routines and activities, attentive adults and a chance to interact with peers appears to work as well at improving the quality of life, mood and self-worth of a child who is overweight or obese as a regular exercise program, researchers report. While regular exercise is clearly beneficial to children—and adults—the psychosocial health of children may benefit as much from other kinds of adult-led after school programs, Medical College of Georgia researchers report in the journal Translational Behavioral Medicine.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-07-fun-psychosocial-benefit-children-obesity.html
Health Line – Staff Writer
Obesity among children is a fairly new problem in the United States. Rates of childhood obesity in the 1960s and 1970s were relatively low, with only 5 to 7 percent of kids qualifying as having obesity. Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the rate of childhood obesity at 18.5 percent, with roughly 13.7 million children and adolescents being affected. That’s a huge leap over the course of just a few decades. But recent research points to a potential decline in those numbers.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/are-we-making-progress-in-the-childhood-obesity-epidemic
BBC – Staff Writer
The amount of sugar in baby food should be restricted and parents should give their young children more vegetables to stop them developing a sweet tooth, a report from child health experts says. It warns that even baby food marked “no added sugar” often contains sugars from honey or fruit juice. Parents should offer bitter flavours too, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health recommends.