Tag: children

You’re going to laugh. Get ready … when I was a kid, I actually rode a unicycle from my house to the school, through Junior High School. (please pass this article to parents, and whiny kids who would rather sit than move) I know, I know, it confirms every sneaking suspicion...

It’s hard to imagine that artificial, synthetic food additives could actually be good for you. And, if someone said to you that “food additives can impact ADHD”, would you be surprised? Really?  Well, a recent study published in The Lancet found that a mixture of four artificial food colors...

News Flash! The way humans have been nourishing their young for years, and centuries, and millennia — since we developed MAMMARY GLANDS — turns out to be the best way to nourish their young. Crazy, I know. This is something that, if you had both oars in the water,...

I remember my mom … “Go outside, you’re driving me crazy!!” Then, we’d bolt for the door, and go hang with our friends, in the woods, in the yard, in the little swatch of woods in the back. “Playing Outside” is an indicator of how our Culture of Health...

Put something toxic on fruits and veggies … what did you THINK was going to happen. Researchers looked at our children to see if eating pesticides for breakfast, lunch, and dinner made those same kids more likely to develop cognitive disorders like ADHD. For me and you, it’s a...

The FDA did the right thing by pulling these meds, because they identified raw material containers tainted with bacteria that could make immune-compromised people even sicker. Turns out, though, that the bacteria were brought in from one of the suppliers, the contamination has still not be identified in ANY...

Unbelievable. Give a depressed child ANY anti-depressant, and … “The FDA showed a doubling in the risk of suicidal ideation among children taking antidepressants, compared with placebo ….” So. If you do nothing, you will be twice a likely NOT to cause suicidal thoughts in your children. Who is...

According to this study (Reuters Health – headlines), if you want your kids to eat more veggies, approach it with K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple). Dutch researchers Wageningen University tested two readily available and commonly eaten vegetables — carrots and french beans — that had been cooked in six different...

Check this out: Athletic teens sleep better than their couch-potato peers and have fewer problems concentrating at school, a new study finds. Researchers in Switzerland asked 434 adolescents with an average age of 17 to keep a log of their sleep and daytime habits for one week. … The...

If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you have a drug, everyone looks like a user (including, it seems, our children). Check out this article just released this morning, which ponders whether cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins should be given to children. Welcome to our Culture...

There are some things that we have forgotten … and just need to remember. Need an example? Return to the Family Table. This study just published in the March/April issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior showed that kids who eat with their families are more likely...

Remember Recess? For those of us “of a certain age”, recess at school was a normal part of the day. This practice, however, has been phased out slowly and steadily over the years. Now, new research suggests that play (and “down time”) may be as important to a child’s...