Medical X-Press – Amy Norton
The study, based on a long-running federal health survey, did turn up some good news: In recent years, kids have been eating fewer empty calories, versus a decade before. The bad news is, by 2016, those sources still accounted for more than one-quarter of kids’ total calories.
Read MoreMedical X-Press – Andy Dunne
Children and adolescents are likely to experience high rates of depression and anxiety long after current lockdown and social isolation ends and clinical services need to be prepared for a future spike in demand, according to the authors of a new rapid review into the long-term mental health effects of lockdown.
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Preschoolers may spend more time on smartphones or tablets than their parents realize, and some use apps intended for teens and adults, researchers report. A new study tracked mobile device use among 350 children aged 3 to 5 over nine months and compared their findings with parents’ estimates of their use.
Read MoreMoms – Ashley Connell
Are you having some stressful days as of late? The world is certainly having a moment where some days you might start to feel like the walls are starting to close in a bit or you’re worried about the kids and what’s to come and you just need a proper outlet in order to help relinquish some of that stress. Have you ever decided to just grab the kids, crank the music way up and just start dancing? It’s really amazing what putting on your dancing shoes, metaphorically speaking for most of us, can do for your mood.
Read MoreForbes – Barry R. Bloom
One of the most hopeful aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic has been that children have mostly been spared the most serious outcomes of the disease. In terms of hospitalized cases and deaths, children and teenagers under 20 years-old represent fewer than 2% of cases. We now know that children are infected in households at the same rate as adults and it has been somewhat of a mystery why they appear to be resistant to the serious consequences of Sars-CoV-2 infection.
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