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• Blue Cross Blue Shield Fighting Childhood Obesity

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 125
  According to the BCBSA website, BCBSA has started a new Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes Prevention Pilot Program in Texas, New Mexico, Mississippi, North Carolina and Kansas.  Through this program Blue Cross Blue Shield plans on reducing the epidemic of childhood obesity and stop further cases of young people ...
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• Do multivitamins curb kids’ allergy risk?

  
  Latest Breaking Health News & Information -RSS headlines- Health.am — Authority: 141
  Giving multivitamins to kids 5 to 8 years old does not seem to alter their overall likelihood of having allergies, hint findings of a study from Sweden.However, starting multivitamins at the age of 4 or younger may curb the risk of food allergies and seasonal or inhaled allergies, the study found.Dr. Anna Bergstrom, ...
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• University Of Queensland Research Finds The Mum-bub Bond May Reduce Neglect, Australia

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  UQ researcher Dr Lane Strathearn sees strengthening the bond between mother and baby as a possible way of reducing childhood neglect. Dr Strathearns recently completed PhD identifies how increased pressures placed on mothers by society have reduced the perceived importance of raising children. "Over the past decade ...
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• A Novel Gene Found for Childhood-Onset Asthma

  
  Latest Breaking Health News & Information -RSS headlines- Health.am — Authority: 141
  Pediatric researchers have identified a novel gene involved in childhood asthma, in one of the largest gene studies to date of the common respiratory disease. Because the gene, called DENND1B, affects cells and signaling molecules thought to be instrumental in the immune system overreaction that occurs in asthma, the ...
  2 days ago

• Senate Passage Of Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act Applauded By American Academy Of Pediatrics

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  "The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which represents 60,000 pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and surgical specialists, applauds the United States Senate for its vote to pass its health reform agreement, embodied in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Academy supports the ...
  2 days ago

• baby shoes

  
  BabyandBump — Authority: 192
  High heels for newborns? At first I thought it was a hoax — U.S-based Heelarious has launched a line of high heels for babies aged 0 to 6 months old. but I found that they are really soft booties in the shape of stiletto that would collapse with weight. Creators has made these which will bring smiles and laughter, no ...
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• Vegetarian Children

  
  BabyandBump — Authority: 192
  My friend is a strict vegetarian, and so are her kids. I am worried for all of them. Especially with kids I dont see how you can get enough nutrition without eating any animal products at all. They all seem on the thin side, but otherwise pretty healthy. I would like to convince her to at least give the kids some eggs ...
  2 days ago

• starting baby food

  
  BabyandBump — Authority: 192
  My little girl, is now 5.5 months old, and Ive tried starting baby food, but he simply doesnt like it! Ive tried a variety of veggies and fruits, as well as baby cereal. And of course i have the soft little spoons so it doesnt hurt his gums. Any suggestions? Is he just not ready yet? I am certainly not ready to wean ...
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• When Santa Comes To The Village

  
  Ending Extreme Poverty in the Congo — Authority: 128
  Santa is known for bringing joy and merriment to children of all ages.  In Congo, Santa comes under slight different conditions. Since the majority of Congo lies below the equator.  So, it is in the south hemisphere.  Therefore, Christmas Day occurs during the summer. But Christmas or winter have no effect on the ...
  2 days ago

• "Balloon Boy" Dad is sentenced to 90 days in jail : Mom gets 20 days

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 528
  The "Balloon Boy" story will go down as one of 2009s most bizarre. read more
  3 days ago

• Tsunami’s missing children - two fathers still search (With Images)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Richa SharmaNew Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) “I am sure she is alive and will be back home one day. I am waiting to see her,” Sergeant Ravi Shankar says in a choked voice. The hope of meeting his 13-year-old daughter who went missing from the Car Nicobar Islands in the 2004 tsunami keeps this [...]
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• U.S. senator responds to a canary by talking in circles

  
  The Canary Report — Authority: 116
  “Many consumers are concerned that the cosmetics industry is using chemicals in its products that are linked to cancer and other health problems,” answers Sen. Tom Carper to a canary constituent’s pleas for action. But what are lawmakers actually doing about it? Canary Report community member Linda Delp asked ...
  3 days ago

• How To Watch Less TV

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 178
  Learn how to watch less television with these steps.
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• Head Start Programs Exceed PA and Nutrition Recommendations

  
  Peaceful Playgrounds — Authority: 125
  A new study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine finds that the majority of the nation’s Head Start programs report doing more to support healthy eating and physical activity than is required by existing federal regulations. Head Start is the nation’s largest federally funded early childhood ...
  3 days ago

• Next Decades Big Enviro Stories

  
  Enviroblog — Authority: 419
  Climate change dominates the headlines this month, and thats likely to continue well in the new decade. But green issues dont stop there. EWG predicts the next big stories on the environmental front: 1. Rising infertility, early puberty, obesity linked to endocrine-disrupting chemicals The evidence, ...
  4 days ago

• Rockefeller Still Hinging Support for Health Reform on CHIP

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Senate supporters of the Children’s Health Insurance Program won two years of additional funding for the popular federal-state program, but it remains unknown what will become of that provision when Senate leaders sit down next month with those in the House, who have proposed to terminate CHIP altogether. This ...
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• CHIP Gets Two Years of Funding Under Senate Health Bill

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  It’s not the five years of additional funding many advocates were hoping for, but the Senate’s compromise on health reform  does include money to extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program for two additional years, thereby preventing millions of CHIP kids from shifting into private plans on newly created ...
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• Mud pies and outdoor play has its benefits

  
  Peaceful Playgrounds — Authority: 125
  A new Northwestern University study suggests that American parents should ease up on antibacterial soap and perhaps allow their little ones a romp or two in the mud --- or at least a much better acquaintance with everyday germs. The research suggests that inflammatory systems may need a higher level of exposure to ...
  4 days ago

• Prenatal baby aspirin not harmful to infants: study

  
  Latest Breaking Health News & Information -RSS headlines- Health.am — Authority: 141
  Baby aspirin taken for high-risk pregnancy complications does not appear to harm brain development among very premature children assessed when 5 years old, according to a French study. It may actually have some benefit, the study hints.As this was an observational study, Dr. Stephane Marret from Rouen University ...
  4 days ago

• Helping Kids Have a Healthy Holiday

  
  Diets in Review Blog — Authority: 528
  My kids love the holidays. Adore the holidays. Fantasize about the holidays. Not just for the presents, which of course are the centerpiece, but for the treats that we always seem to have around. The cookies, cakes and fudge that seem to magically appear and multiply, the junk foods that we seem to rely on just a ...
  4 days ago

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