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They Say: You’re Making Your Kid Fat
Hey, you know how everything that ever goes wrong with your kid is totally your fault? Yeah, add another thing to that list. Researchers are looking at the role parents play in childhood obesity, and finding some interesting links between how infants are fed and those babies’ weight when they are older. Dr Elsie Tavares of Harvard Pilgrim Heal...
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The Most Annoying Word
A recent Marist Poll reveals that there is one word in the English language that annoys almost half of all Americans. We hear it a lot and, not surprisingly, most often from our kids. The word is frequently delivered with an eye roll and is the source of much parental exasperation. Think you know what it is? Whatever. According to the p...
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They Say: Tell The Kids You Did Drugs
Should Whitney Houston have disclosed all the dirty details of her freebasing past? Was it a necessary cautionary tale, or would the revelation make her teen daughter, Bobbi Kristina, want to pick up the pipe? A new study says blab away. Conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs on behalf of the Hazelden Foundation, the survey discovered that the majori...
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Will Your Baby Live To Be 100?
Next time you drop your kid off at daycare, take a look around at all the nappy-clad rugrats: over half of them will be blowing out birthday candles in the year 2109. According to a study published today in the Lancet medical journal, babies born today in well-to-do countries will regularly age to 100-plus. Why? Advances in medicine, both in...
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Contraception For Men
Traditionally, most forms of contraception have been designed for use by women, unfairly placing the responsibility for prevention in their court, rather than sharing it equally. The one exception is, of course, the condom, but many men claim that a condom lessens the experience or that the delay required to put on one kills the spontaneity of the...
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They Say: Parents Are Expert Liars
Most of us will admit to lying to our kids on occasion. We make up stories about fairies who pay money for teeth and praise even the sloppiest artistic efforts. These parental fibs are rare and motivated mostly by a desire to make our children happy. Or are they? According to a recent study, parents lie to their children more often and about more t...
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They Say: Lollies Makes Kids Mean
British researchers have found a link between eating lollies as a kid and being violent as adults. A new study in the British Journal of Psychiatry’s October issue claims that kids who eat too many lollies are more likely to be arrested for violence when they grow up. The findings are based on research that followed more than 17,000 subjects b...
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Working Parents Don’t Eat Properly
A small nutritional study out of Cornell University found that working parents often resort to time-saving coping strategies when it comes to feeding themselves and their families. Can I get a “well, duh?” Read more...
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They Say: We Are What Our Mothers Ate
Did your mum dine on a diet of potato chips, and Oreos or did she eat a healthy mix of veggies, proteins and vitamin enriched eats? New studies are being released that say that we are what our mothers ate. And in turn, if you are a mum, your child will be what you ate. It’s an endless cycle of inherited food related ebb and flow. The big news?...
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