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26 Mar

Posted at 04:30h in ADHD, Children's Health, Diet

Eleven percent of children from ages 4 to 17 have been diagnosed with ADHD, and the majority of them take medicine to control the symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, a round of new, peer-reviewed studies have revealed that simple changes...

30 Sep

Posted at 04:06h in Bone Health, Children's Health

Are Today’s Adolescents at risk for Osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a preventable, potentially debilitating disease characterized by low bone density and increased bone fragility that affects millions of people. Dietary intake of calcium, magnesium and vitamin D is critical during this life stage for optimal bone growth;...

21 Jul

Posted at 03:58h in Children's Health, Pregnancy

  You’ve heard them, you’ve seen them: a baby crying inconsolably while a parent jiggles, shushes, and walks with babe in arms, imploring her to stop. Babies cry a lot, some more than others. There’s a little-known secret — a unique, simple, and effective way to...

13 Jul

Posted at 23:22h in Children's Health

By Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post online Remember the great phthalate scare of 2008? Congress, in a rare bipartisan response to a clamor from parents and health experts that children's toys made abroad were laced with chemicals that could harm boys' reproductive systems banned the toxins so...

07 Jul

Posted at 05:14h in Children's Health

Blog post by Victoria Fedden in Elephant Journal online It was my dream job and I didn’t get it. All I wanted was to work in that beautiful, quaint school with the wooden toys and the sheer silks where everything smelled of lavender. The Waldorf School looked like the calmest,...