Health aNd Fitness Guide

Children who were exclusively breast-fed become smarter than those who were fed supplements also. Researchers from Belarus and Canada studied nearly 14,000 children, half of whom were exclusively breast fed, and the rest given breast milk with other supplements. A standardized IQ test taken when the kids were six years old showed that exclusively breast-fed → Continue reading »

Teens who skip breakfast regularly to keep themselves trim have a greater tendency to gain weight. Children who have breakfast regularly are more physically active, said a study published in the journal Pediatrics. The study found that children who skipped breakfast regularly weighed about 2.3 kg more than children who had breakfast daily. Another study, → Continue reading »

Pregnant women’s tobacco use and exposure to second-hand smoke could impede or reverse efforts to improve maternal and child health in developing nations. Researchers, after interviewing 7,961 pregnant women in nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, including two places in India and one in Pakistan, found that 18 per cent of expectant mothers → Continue reading »

A DVD or a video game may not be the best method to keep your child amused. A study published in the Journal of Paediatrics shows that, for every hour a day infants between eight and 16 months spent watching baby DVDs and videos that claim to enhance linguistic abilities, they understood an average of → Continue reading »

Obese children are like obese adults, when it comes to heart diseases. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine say, as a child’s body mass index for age increases, both the relaxation and contraction phases of the heartbeat alter. A new tissue Doppler-imaging technique, ‘vector velocity imaging’, helped the researchers to trace the subtle → Continue reading »