Mar 24, 2020
Romper – Cat Bowen
The one thing I didn’t count on during pregnancy is that children are bottomless pits. You feed them a meal, and an hour later, they’re raiding the snack stash. Sound familiar? With some breakfast ideas that keep your kids full until lunch, here’s hoping we can save some cash on the chips and salsa. (Or at least get some for ourselves.) Apparently, there’s a trick to keeping kids full in between meals. It all comes down to the food’s relative satiety, or the measurement of how filling a food is. The European Journal of Clinical Nutrition devised an index of foods that rates food satiety on a relative scale.Unsurprisingly, simple carbohydrates, like those in toaster pastries and croissants, are some of the lowest rated on the list for satiety. The highest-satiety foods are unprocessed foods like potatoes, beans, proteins, and fruit.
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Mar 23, 2020
The Guardian – Lanre Bakare
A YouTube workout by the online fitness guru Joe Wicks has been livestreamed by more than a million people, as parents turn to alternative teaching methods to cope with their children not being able to attend school during the coronavirus outbreak. Wicks, who was due to start a tour of schools to promote fitness and healthy living this week, decided to livestream a daily workout instead, saying he wanted to become “the PE teacher for the nation” as the coronavirus forces more children indoors.
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Mar 23, 2020
Medical X-Press – Aaron Milstone, M.d., M.h.s.
With all the sobering news about the new coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease the virus causes, worried moms and dads can feel better about one detail: At present, the disease seems to be much milder in babies and children. That said, there is currently no vaccine, so parents should do everything they can to protect children from getting it. Aaron Milstone, M.D., M.H.S., a pediatrician at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and an infectious disease expert at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, has some practical tips.
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Mar 22, 2020
Medical X-Press – Emi Berry
Children who are bullied are at risk of experiencing poor outcomes for up to four decades after exposure. Today is National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence (NDA), a day where we can all take action together. Bullying can be physical, verbal and social. While offline bullying generally takes place at school, cyberbullying can be far more pervasive. It can happen anywhere, anytime and reach a much wider audience than offline bullying.
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Mar 22, 2020
Madison – Dr. Zorba Paster
I talk a lot about exercise – doing something to keep yourself in top health. And I chime in all the time about getting kids to go outdoors and kick the can, explore, play, imagine, join a team. Whatever it may be. When I talk about kids’ health or kids’ weight, I also think about kids’ mental health. First up, childhood depression. It’s far more common than we think because kids don’t show it the same way adults do.
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