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The largest human health study is on children

Meet the National Children’s Study, supposedly the largest human health study ever. Its goal is “to improve the health and well-being of children.” However, before they can do this, the researchers involved need to collect data. They will do this by tracking 100,000 children from all over the United States from before birth till the [...]

Absent Father Means Earlier Puberty In Girls

A PhD candidate at New Zealand’s Canterbury University has found that girls whose fathers are absent tend to enter puberty earlier than their counterparts whose fathers are part of the family unit.
The study looked at pairs of sisters separated in age by at least two years, neither of whom had experienced their first period before [...]

Preschoolers In Home Care Need More Physical Activity

According to research released at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), preschoolers in family or home based child care situations are not meeting physical activity recommendations. With millions of children in some kind of child care situation, and an increasing rate of obesity in young children, studies such [...]

Does Breast Feeding Really Reduce Breast Cancer Risk for the Breastfed?

A recent study has stated that women who were breastfed as babies have a reduced risk of developing breast cancer. According to the study, women who were breastfed as infants ‘had a 17 percent decrease in breast cancer risk’ note one member of the study team, Hazel B. Nichols. She further stated that, ‘we did [...]

Midwives: Backlash Against Eating More Can Produce Boys Survey

last week, we covered the recent studies from UK universities that claim diet affects babies gender. In a nutshell, the studies report that high-calorie diets seemed to produce boys, and lower calorie diets produce girls.
Louise Silverton, Deputy General Secretary of The Royal College of Midwives in the United Kingdom, warns women trying to conceive that [...]

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