Studying adolescents in Southern California, researchers found that the link between sleep and alcohol/marijuana use was consistent even after controlling for other known risk factors, such as depression. For every 10 minutes later that teens went to bed, there was a 6 percent increased risk of alcohol or marijuana use in the previous month. In addition, teens who reported significant trouble sleeping were 55 percent more likely to have used alcohol in the past month.
Category: children
Suicide trends in school-aged children reveal racial disparity
While overall suicide rates in children younger than 12 years have remained steady, a new study shows increasing rates in black children and decreasing rates in white children.
Cooling children after cardiac arrest provides no significant benefit
A recent clinical trial shows that “therapeutic hypothermia” is no more effective than maintaining normal body temperature in children who’ve suffered cardiac arrest before being hospitalized. The body-cooling technique has long been a standard of care in treating adults after heart attacks.
Suicide Rate Up Among Young Black Children in U.S.
But fewer white kids aged 5 to 11 are taking their own life, study shows Source: HealthDay
Why Playing Hide-and-Seek is Good for Your Child
Children love to play hide-and-seek from their earliest days, but it’s not just a silly game. Playing peekaboo with your baby leads to searching for hidden objects and, ultimately, to the excitement of playing hide-and-seek, of being hunter or hunted without the risk of getting hurt. Whether it’s peekaboo, hide-and-seek, or hunt-the-thimble, what are the […] The post Why Playing Hide-and-Seek is Good for Your Child appeared first on .
Youth dance classes score low in physical activity
For parents who send their kids to dance classes to get some exercise, a new study suggests most youth dance classes provide only limited amounts of physical activity. The study found that slightly more than one-third of class time, on average, was spent engaged in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.
Temper, anxiety, homework trouble are medical issues? Many parents don’t realize it
Many parents of children age 5-17 don’t discuss behavioral or emotional issues that could be signs of potential health problems with their doctors. The most common reason for not sharing these details with health care providers? Nearly half of parents believed that these simply were not medical problems. Another 40 percent of parents say they would rather handle it themselves and about 30 percent would rather speak to someone other than a doctor.
Preschoolers Get Too Little Physical Activity in Child Care
At least two hours recommended every day, study authors say Source: HealthDay
The Coke Saga Continues
Last week was pretty much Coca-Cola week at Childhood Obesity News, culminating in a partial list of our previous posts on the topic. Still, interesting events remain to be mentioned. In the autumn of 2014, Claire Suddath and Duane Stanford wrote for Business Week about how the sugar-sweetened beverage industry’s situation had soured since 1998, when the Center for Science in the Public Interest published its report titled “Liquid Candy.” Coke identified “obesity and other health concerns” as the biggest shadow hanging over the company’s future success. The corporate bosses decided that the solution was to step up their advertising game. Soft-drink consumption had been dropping since 2005 and the public was in need of re-persuasion. The average American drinks around 450 cans of
Is it time to question the ethics of donor conception?
Donor-conceived children now have the right to identify their genetic parents, but for some like Joanna Rose the change was too little too late and not knowing can be “excruciatingly painful”