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Expert tips on how nursing mothers can help protect their babies from food allergies
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 8, 2018
“Even for women who aren’t going to be able to breastfeed on a regular basis, really try to do so right after birth. It’s different from the milk produced even a few days later, because it’s packed with a lot of factors that get the baby’s immune system off to a good start.”
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Limit screen time to protect your child’s heart, American Heart Association says
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 8, 2018
“Screen time is associated with being overweight and obese which is associated with high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Once those risk factors, such as obesity, are in play in childhood, they tend to continue into adulthood.”
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Maternal mortality: An American crisis
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 7, 2018
“If you have a C-section in 2018, you have a 90 percent chance of having a C-section the second time. But the second time it’s a more complicated surgery. And the third time, it can be like operating on a melted box of crayons. And in those cases, women can bleed to death.”
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UCI awarded $9 million grant to determine the long-term effects of cannabis on adolescents
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 6, 2018
“Studies suggest that adolescents who are exposed to cannabis are at risk for development of various neuropsychiatric disorders later in life, but there is much research still needed.”
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Why ‘beauty sleep’ is real, according to doctors
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 2, 2018
“Sleep is incredibly important for physical appearance. Sleep is a regenerative process where we heal and where our neurons build strong connections. It’s like a fountain of youth that we dive in to every night.”
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3 in 5 babies not breastfed in the first hour of life
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 2, 2018
“Breastfeeding gives children the best possible start in life. We must urgently scale up support to mothers – be it from family members, health care workers, employers and governments, so they can give their children the start they deserve.”
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That Girl
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 2, 2018
No Twitter, Facebook or Instagram accounts for actress Jennifer Aniston. That’s what she told Molly McNearney during an InStyle interview:
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Grieving mother orca falling behind her family as she carries dead calf for a 7th day
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 1, 2018
It’s not just humans who deal with grief & mourning. An orca whale has continued to do everything she can to hold on to her calf, who died just a half hour after being born. The story has captivated the hearts of those following the saga of this mother orca, who is part of an endangered species.
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Hospitals know how to protect mothers. They just aren’t doing it.
- Home & Family
- July 30, 2018
“What we know about those deaths is that most of them were absolutely preventable. They were from causes that we could have done something about. We could have prevented it if we had recognized the emergency early on.”
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Kenny Chesney didn’t know if his friends would live; amid hurricane uncertainty, he began ‘Songs for the Saints’
- Headlines & Highlights
- July 30, 2018
“When you think about all the people it could help & how it could help change their psyche & give healing (‘Songs for the Saints’) is probably the most important record I ever made. I hope they get as much healing out of listening to it as I did from making it.”
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Cellphones in classrooms contribute to failing grades: Study
- Headlines & Highlights
- July 30, 2018
“I was always interested in using technology in the classroom before it existed, but when it became apparent that it was affecting the classroom, it raised the question (of) what effect it was having.”
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Chemicals in Food May Harm Children, Pediatricians’ Group Says
- Headlines & Highlights
- July 27, 2018
“The good news is there are safe and simple steps people can take right now to limit exposures, and they don’t have to break the bank.”
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Your doctor may not be the best source of nutrition advice
- Featured
- July 24, 2018
“This is what happens when you don’t teach nutrition. You cannot learn in 2 hours what it takes 20 hours to learn.”
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Abuse, neglect & a system that failed
- Home & Family
- July 18, 2018
“In our system, once a child is adopted, we equate it with success & there is very little followup. We actually know very little about the well-being of how kids from foster care do after being adopted.” Vivek Sankaram. U. of Michigan law professor
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Social media, the scourge of adolescence
- Home & Family
- July 15, 2018
“I think it’s training our brains to be fine with being overstimulated. Like it is severely lowering our attention spans.”
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