Moms – Ashley Wehrli
A new study has found that there is a link between childhood obesity and an earlier start to puberty. Childhood obesity is a problem all across the country, and it impacts children from various backgrounds and homes. Work has been done to see what kind of interventions can help these children, but that is not all.
Read More: https://www.moms.com/obese-kids-more-likely-to-start-puberty-earlier/
Moms – Ashley Wehrli
A new study has found a possible way to slow down the progression of myopia in children. Myopia is a term that is being heard more now due to an increased number of children presenting with it. This increase is being blamed on screen time, especially during the pandemic when children were completing their school online more.
Read More: https://www.moms.com/new-way-of-slowing-kids-myopia-progress/
Medical X-Press – DeeDee Stiepan
When kids get sick, most of the time, viruses or bacteria cause their infections. While viral and bacterial infections can have similar symptoms, such as coughing, sore throat and fever, one big difference between the two is how they are treated.
Read More: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-child-viral-fever.html
The Hechinger Report – Ariel Gilreath
A federally-commissioned study of child care centers found that staff should spend more time letting kids be physically active. But the study also found that when staff members played with the children, kids spent more time being active than when the adults did not participate. Children in classrooms where adults didn’t join in the play had 30 minutes less active time, on average, than kids in classrooms where adults got involved.
Read More: https://hechingerreport.org/sedentary-child-care-workers-lead-to-sedentary-toddlers/
KQED News Mind/Shift – Allison Aubrey
The data are stark: the typical American diet is shortening the lives of many Americans. Diet-related deaths outrank deaths from smoking, and about half of U.S. deaths from heart disease – nearly 900 deaths a day – are linked to poor diet. The pandemic highlighted the problem, with much worse outcomes for people with obesity and other diet-related diseases.