Walks through the trees help ADD students concentrate ...scientists aren't sure why

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

For some time, the parents of schoo-aged children with attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have been reporting that allowing children to spend some time outside helps them concentrate, and the effect lasts.

A carefully controlled study out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign confirms it. Students were separated into groups and taken on twenty-minute walks through either the park, a downtown area or a suburban area. Nothing else was ever changed, not the time of day, not the composition of the groups

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Fat Mum Hastens Path to Childhood Obesity

sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 4 days (www.sciencedaily.com)

There is a correlation between children's obesity rates and those of their mothers, finds a new study. Other factors linked to a child's tendency to become obese include too much time spent in front of the TV and rapidly piling on the pounds in early childhood.

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Lack of time on tummy shown to hinder achievement

sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 3 weeks (www.eurekalert.org)

The American Physical Therapy Association is urging parents and caregivers to ensure that babies get enough "tummy time" throughout the day while they are awake and supervised, in light of a recent survey of therapists who say they've noticed an increase in motor delays in infants who spend too much time on their backs while awake.

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Parents spare the vaccines and sicken the children

Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 1 week (www.nytimes.com)

I would like to nominate ABC and all the other anti-vaccine elements who decided to ignore the science and play up that hype: Twelve kids in San Francisco just got measels, nine of them because their parents thought that the vaccines were too dangerous.

Let's see... What are the dangers of NOT vaccinating the kids? Pneumonia, brain swelling, and -- oh what was that other one -- DEATH!! One contributor put it very well. Because vaccines became so widespread during the twentieth century, the parents have never seen measels and don't know how dangerous it is

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FDA to Parents: Do Not Give Tots Cough and Cold Meds

Charles submitted, created time 10 months 1 week (www.sciam.com)

The Food and Drug Administration this week issued a stern health advisory once again warning parents not to give babies under two years of age over-the-counter (OTC) cold and cough medicine because of potentially "serious and anlife-threatening side effects." This includes decongestants, expectorants, antihistamines and antitussives (cough suppressants) that you can pick up at pharmacies and supermarkets, including Wyeth's Robitussin, Novartis, AG's Triaminic and Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol Plus Cold.

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