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...Test, and I can't stop thinking about them. A disclaimer: while the shorts are smartly directed, they are poorly acted, and some of the dialogue - which was partly written by public-health officials - sounds stilted and finger-wagging, like something you would hear at an HIV clinic when you go for a test...
...leaves behind--a cohort of kids who are getting sick earlier or, at the very least, are a whole lot likelier to develop serious problems later. "We are seeing conditions that we as pediatricians are not used to seeing in children," says Dr. Seema Kumar of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "And we are seeing these a lot more...
...Start Young Get kids moving with games of tag or hide-and-seek. And for tinier tots? Easy, says Dr. Edward Laskowski, co-director of Sports Medicine at Mayo Clinic. Ask them to run like a gorilla, walk like a spider, hop like a bunny or stretch like a cat. Just try to get them to stop...
...Ludwig's clinic at children's hospital, Optimal Weight for Life, offers a glimpse of the diversity of childhood obesity in the U.S. The clinic straddles the border between the wealthy neighborhood of Brookline and the poorer areas of Roxbury and Dorchester, and Ludwig's patients--black, white, Hispanic--are drawn from around the city. Ludwig's unique weight-control program focuses on the glycemic index of his patients' diets, attempting to reduce the sharp ups and downs in blood-sugar levels that he believes encourage children to overeat. That means cutting back severely on the highly processed carbohydrates that...
Sleep is one of the richest topics in science today: why we need it, why it can be hard to get, and how that affects everything from our athletic performance to our income. Daniel Kripke, co-director of research at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La Jolla, Calif., has looked at the most important question of all. In 2002, he compared death rates among more than 1 million American adults who, as part of a study on cancer prevention, reported their average nightly amount of sleep. To many, his results were surprising, but they've since been corroborated...