Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
Youth programs designed to prevent drug use and delinquency and support healthy development can reap lasting benefits not only for participants, but also for their kids, according to a decades-long study published June 10 in the JAMA Pediatrics.
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The results suggest that children—especially girls—who attend school for longer will have better memory abilities in old age. This may have implications for memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
Read MoreMoms – Lilee Williams
Trying to avert one health crisis may have inadvertently thwarted the efforts to tackle another one. That’s because many of the factors that have gone in to self-quarantine and social distancing for the coronavirus have negative impacts on children, and a new study shows that the lockdown has made another epidemic so much worse — the childhood obesity epidemic.
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As we get older, it gets harder to remember what it was like to be a teenager. We’re not talking about remembering stuff like parties and school events. We mean the stuff that made, and still makes, being a teenager a difficult period of growth and development. The teen years are rife with conflict, both inter- and intra-personal, and the outside influences teens face can make these years even harder to manage. Social media has only compounded these issues; teens are bombarded with images of perfection and messages telling them they can and should be/look/do better.
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The news that children currently face may seem almost unspeakable. But, together, we must find words, and ways, to give voice to their experience and prevent millions of children struggling with their fears and uncertainty alone.
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