Health and Nutrition
Food Marketing and Kids
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While most who may have watched television during what is typically ‘children’s time’ may not be a stranger to marketing towards children, there has been a lot of uproar over the practices in recent times.
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Doctors Urging For a Safer Hot Dog
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Doctors are urging the food industry to develop a ‘choking-proof’ hot-dog. Food related choking is one of leading causes of death for young children, and the American Academy of Pediatrics is a huge supporter of the move.
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March is National Nutrition Month and a great time to start finding some new ways to get some extra vitamins and minerals that your children may be lacking. Doctors even say, almost one in five children may be deficient in necessary vitamins and nutrients, and parents aren’t much better off it seems.
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Should Obese Children Be Able to Get Surgery
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An article in the New York Times has been raising some debate over children and weight loss surgery, namely gastric bypass surgery. It does goes into a considerable amount of detail over one girl’s experience, her name is Brittany Caesar and the article points out- she was the first adolescent to receive the [...]
