Disparities in obesity patterns among adolescents
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Obesity presents serious health risks at all ages, but is particularly worrisome in children and youth. In addition to having a greater chance of becoming…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Obesity presents serious health risks at all ages, but is particularly worrisome in children and youth. In addition to having a greater chance of becoming…
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…findings include: While the transmission rate was five times higher among classmates than among children in different classrooms, sitting next to an infected child didn’t significantly increase a child’s risk…
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…constant over time. “A parental happiness surplus is particularly evident for parents who are engaged in more ‘intense’ parenting, that is, for parents with younger and more children.” As the…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Estimates of the prevalence of childhood depression range from 1% to 2% of all children in the United States, and for adolescents this figure may…
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…unauthorized adult immigrants today) are parents of children age 17 or under. By contrast, only 38% of legal immigrants and 29% of U.S.-born adults across the population are currently parents…
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…some level of exposure to PAH in their daily life. Higher levels of PAH exposure were associated with a 24% higher score of anxiety/depression for children ages 6 to 7…
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…dispatched 100 U.S. service members into that theater. Recently, a viral video campaign by the U.S. charity Invisible Children — “Kony 2012” — has renewed focus on the region and…
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…of fame highly accessible to children between 10 and 12 years of age, transforming fame into a key value and goal for children in this age group.” Keywords: youth, technology…
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…University, “Music Training for the Development of Auditory Skills,” found that children who had music training received a number of benefits compared with those who did not. Among them, they…
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…Native Children: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects” Sarche, Michelle; Spicer, Paul. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 2009, Issue 1139. doi: 10.1196/annals.1425.017. Findings: “There remain enormous gaps in…
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