Sep 20, 2022
The Huffington Post – Jillian Wilson
There’s a reason why the sounds of nature — chirping birds, flowing streams, falling rain — are often sound options for white noise machines and meditation apps: They’re calming.
A new small study published in Molecular Psychiatry further underscores this. The study found that a one-hour nature walk reduces stress when compared to a one-hour walk in a bustling city environment.
Read More: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exercise-outdoors-walking-mental-health_l_631f7668e4b0eac9f4d9ddce
Sep 20, 2022
Medical X-Press – Alan Mozes
Sonia Dhaliwal knows exactly how bad childhood eczema can get. That’s because her young daughter, Ariah Nihal Khan, has struggled with a severe case of the skin condition ever since she was a baby.
Ariah’s symptoms were relentless and debilitating until the age of 3. They included rashes, skin discolorations all across her face, eyelids, hands and knees, and itching so bad that “she would literally wake up screaming and crying with blood spots from scratching,” Dhaliwal said.
Read More: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-life-drug-eases-severe-eczema.html
Sep 19, 2022
Moms – Ashley Wehrli
A new study has found that parents’ eating behavior can contribute to a teenager’s emotional eating habits. Teenagers are in a tricky stage of development. They are dealing with pressure in their lives, like work, school, and social life. They are also trying to find who they are apart from their parents.
Read More: https://www.moms.com/parents-eating-behavior-can-contribute-to-teens-emotional-eating-habits/
Sep 19, 2022
Medical X-Press – Gino Flinterud
The foundation of good health is laid early in life. Two studies show that dietary habits and body size in Norwegian children remain stable for the first seven years of life. Body size and diet largely remain stable for Norwegian children in the first seven years of life. This is the conclusion of two studies that have examined the significance of stability in dietary habits, and stability in body size in the childhood years.
Read More: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-health-habits-early-life.html
Sep 18, 2022
The Cleveland Clinic – Staff Writer
Something that remains constant for kids (and adults), though, is the importance of getting enough sleep. But how much sleep do kids need? Well, that’s another one of those phases. As kids change, so, too, do the recommendations for how much sleep they should get, and why.
Read More: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/recommended-amount-of-sleep-for-children/
