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Kiss frontman Gene Simmons says music can save a child’s life, get them off the streets0
- Celebrity Causes
- April 8, 2013
Gene Simmons surprised fans when he made a guest appearance at a benefit concert and spoke about how music is self-empowering and has the ability to positively shape children’s lives. Music also helps children to improve their social skills. Simmons says, “It doesn’t matter if you become a star. If you don’t believe in yourself
READ MOREKirstie Alley: I’m Dancing for 100 Days0
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- January 9, 2012
On New Year’s Day, Kirstie Alley launched 100 Days of Dance, a program in which she encourages people to dance for 100 consecutive days in order to lose weight or stay fit. People, 1/1/2012
READ MOREKindergartners Go Green With Their Own Garden0
- Environmental Well-Being
- November 4, 2011
At Friends School Haverford in Pennsylvania, teachers are using Chile peppers and chickens to teach students life lessons. Teachers are giving their students hands-on lessons in sustainability and the environment, and the kids seem to be learning and loving it. ABC Local, 11/3/2011
READ MOREKindergartner’s weight strong predictor of later childhood obesity0
- Home & Family
- February 8, 2014
Is your 5-year-old overweight? Kids who are obese in kindergarten are four times more likely to be obese later on in childhood. “The biggest risk of developing new obesity from ages 5 to 14 is really driven by kids entering kindergarten overweight. Those children who were born large or are overweight at age 5, something is happening very early in life which sets the pathway to obesity,” explains Dr. Venkat Narayan, lead author of a new study by Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.
READ MOREKids’ packed lunches too warm to be safe: study0
- Home & Family
- August 8, 2011
A new study, released on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, is the first to check the safety of kids' packed lunches about an hour and a half before lunchtime. Although 45 percent of the packed lunches in the study included an ice pack, and 12 percent were kept in refrigerators, nearly all of the perishable
READ MOREKids Watch TV As Parents Do, Not As They Say0
- Home & Family
- July 23, 2013
Do you limit how much television your children can watch, but then let yourself watch as much as you want? “If the parents watch TV in their free time, the kids are being socialized to watch TV in their free time,” says senior research scientist Amy Bleakley, who led a recent study by the Annenberg
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