Showing posts with label child. Show all posts
Showing posts with label child. Show all posts
Asthma can be cured by itself when an adult child
Friday, May 16, 2014
Asthma can be cured by itself when an adult child - Asthma sufferers would be so excruciating, especially if the affected are children. However, a recent study indicates that asthma can be cured by itself when the children get older. Unfortunately, the possibility of recovering this only occurs in one in five children affected by asthma.
Even so, it would not seem to apply to girls who had asthma as allergic to furry animals like dogs and cats. Research has shown that girls with the allergy to heal on its own as an adult is quite small.
These results were found after Swedish researchers followed 200 children with asthma. When 19-year-old, 21 percent of children has decreased asthma symptoms. They no longer frequent shortness of breath and did not need the inhaler device. Decrease in these symptoms is more common in boys.
"The sensitivity of the furry animals and asthma are more acute at the age of seven to eight years did not decline as adults," said study author Dr. Martin Anderson from the Obstructive Lung Disease in Northern Sweden, as reported by U.S. News.
Many children who have asthma as a child had fallen when grown. But doctors rarely consider it a cure for fear of asthma will appear again when the children met with asthma triggers. Researchers found that the reduction rate can range between 16-60 percent in adolescents.
This study provides hope for parents to see their children recover from asthma. However, this study also did not provide a guarantee. Unfortunately, this study did not clarify whether the treatment of asthma like allergy shots can affect the possibility of recovery from asthma in the future.
Even so, it would not seem to apply to girls who had asthma as allergic to furry animals like dogs and cats. Research has shown that girls with the allergy to heal on its own as an adult is quite small.
These results were found after Swedish researchers followed 200 children with asthma. When 19-year-old, 21 percent of children has decreased asthma symptoms. They no longer frequent shortness of breath and did not need the inhaler device. Decrease in these symptoms is more common in boys.
"The sensitivity of the furry animals and asthma are more acute at the age of seven to eight years did not decline as adults," said study author Dr. Martin Anderson from the Obstructive Lung Disease in Northern Sweden, as reported by U.S. News.
Many children who have asthma as a child had fallen when grown. But doctors rarely consider it a cure for fear of asthma will appear again when the children met with asthma triggers. Researchers found that the reduction rate can range between 16-60 percent in adolescents.
This study provides hope for parents to see their children recover from asthma. However, this study also did not provide a guarantee. Unfortunately, this study did not clarify whether the treatment of asthma like allergy shots can affect the possibility of recovery from asthma in the future.
Talk about a healthy weight loss diet to help your child
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Talk about a healthy weight loss diet to help your child - Childs behavior is strongly influenced indirectly by parents and neighborhood. A study showed that the family had never discussed the weight loss, diet, or healthy lifestyles often have children who are not sensitive to their own health.
Conversely, children who often heard her parents talk about weight, health, or diet, diet easier start and maintain their own body weight, as reported by Reuters. These results were found after researchers surveyed 2,800 adolescents and their parents.
"It is important to conduct discussions or talks with child-focused health or healthy foods to maintain a healthy body and bones. Do not see it by focusing on body size or physical appearance," said Jeriga Berge, lead researcher from the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis .
Previous research has shown that talking about weight or weight problems ridiculed by parents will hurt children and adolescents. But it depends on how well the parents expressed their intent in children.
Researchers stressed that parents should focus on weight loss related to health. Losing weight should be seen as an attempt to nourish the body, not to look slim or beautiful. It is known to be more successful to make teens start dieting and keeping their food.
Conversely, children who often heard her parents talk about weight, health, or diet, diet easier start and maintain their own body weight, as reported by Reuters. These results were found after researchers surveyed 2,800 adolescents and their parents.
"It is important to conduct discussions or talks with child-focused health or healthy foods to maintain a healthy body and bones. Do not see it by focusing on body size or physical appearance," said Jeriga Berge, lead researcher from the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis .
Previous research has shown that talking about weight or weight problems ridiculed by parents will hurt children and adolescents. But it depends on how well the parents expressed their intent in children.
Researchers stressed that parents should focus on weight loss related to health. Losing weight should be seen as an attempt to nourish the body, not to look slim or beautiful. It is known to be more successful to make teens start dieting and keeping their food.
Skin Cancer Prevention Is Your Child Sun Protected
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
| Skin Cancer Care |
Skin Cancer Prevention - Is Your Child Sun-Protected ? - The depleting ozone layer seems to be contributing to the increase of skin cancer. An estimated 1.3 million new cases of non-melanoma skin cancer are diagnosed within the United States each year, outnumbering all other cancers combined.
As with most children, they tend to spend time outdoors from 10:00am to 4:00pm when UV rays are at their highest. One blistering sunburn in childhood or adolescence more than doubles a persons chances of developing melanoma later in life."¹ "A persons risk for melanoma doubles if he or she has had five or more sunburns at any age."². Is your child sun protected?
Skin cancer can be prevented and it is never too late to start taking better care of your skin! Clothing appears to provide one of the most convenient forms of protection against ultraviolet radiation (UV). However, not all clothing is sufficiently protective against UV radiation. The average T-shirt only provides an ultraviolet protection factor (UPF) equivalent to a SPF 7 sunscreen.
Sun protective clothes are specially engineered clothing, swimming suits or hats that have been specially developed to include chemical UV absorbers that prevent penetration of UVA and UVB rays. UVA, the "Ageing Ray" which makes up 95% of UV light energy, has the power to penetrate deep into our skin where it can do permanent harm to the skin cells. UVB, the "Burning Ray" which makes up 4-5% of the UV light energy, is one of the foremost causes of skin cancer.
UPF is like the sun protective factor SPF used on sunscreen lotion bottles and fabrics today, in that both UPF and SPF measure sunburn protection. A lot of companies will kind of bounce back and forth between SPF and UPF so lets take a moment to clarify what exactly each of these acronyms means.
UPF is the measurement of how much UV light it blocks. The amount of protection fabric provides depends on the type of fabric and the weave or knit of the fabric. Generally, these fabrics have a tighter weave or knit and are usually darker in color. A 1 over the UPF number demonstrates the maximum amount of UV rays coming through the fabric. A UPF 15 rating allows 1/15 of UV rays through the fabric.
SPF on the other hand measures how long you can stay in the sun without burning. If you normally burn in 10 minutes, a sunscreen with a 15 SPF would protect you 15 times as long, or 150 minutes, assuming you dont sweat or get wet. If a fair-skinned, blond headed person burns in five minutes under the noon day sun, a SPF 10 would enable her to remain outside for fifty minutes before burning -- ten times longer than without sunscreen. A darker-skinned individual who might burn in 20 minutes without sunscreen could stay out for 200 minutes.
The best protection or prevention of skin cancer for your child is to use a combination of sun protective clothing and the appropriate SPF level of sun screen.
1. "Squamous Cell Carcinoma." MayoClinic.com. 8 March 2007. 15 April 2008
2. Pfahlberg A, Kolmel KF, Gefeller O. Timing of excessive ultraviolet radiation and melanoma: epidemiology does not support the existence of a critical period of high susceptibility to solar ultraviolet radiation-induced melanoma. British Journal of Dermatology, March 2001; 144; 3:471
Why Your Growing Child Needs to Eat More Fat
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
The low-fat craze of the 90s just wont die. I thought we were past low-fat at this point, yet every time I go to the grocery store Im still bombarded with the fat-free message. Its worse at Whole Foods, my place of employment. We even have a whole line of "healthy" fat-free salad dressings at our salad bar. And in my current school lunch rotation (part of the joyful road to becoming an RD), fat is being pulled from the menu like never before in favor of whole grains, vegetables, and skim milk. New York City schools have gone as far to ban butter (!?!?). For the average consumer, the message is loud and clear: fat is bad, mmmkay? Weve gotta eat more vegetables! Eat your broccoli, eat your salad! Throw out the butter and oil! Fats killing the kids!
But theres a problem with that. A big one. Of course vegetables are full of nutrients, but eating them without fat renders their fat-soluble vitamins (mainly vitamin A) useless. And you do NOT want that, especially if youre a little cherub in the 1st grade. Read on now, ya hear?
Eating fat allows you to absorb more nutrients out of your fruits and veggies.
I found this study via Chris Masterjohn; he mentioned it in passing in this article, but I feel that it deserves more attention. Its an extremely well-done study, and it proves conclusively that absorption of fat-soluble nutrients is dependent on the amount of fat in the meal.
The study, done in 2004, tested carotenoid absorption from a salad with varying levels of fat added (1). For the non-scientifically minded, carotenoids are vitamin A precursors; alpha-carotene, beta-carotene and lycopene were tested here. The researchers recruited 7 subjects, who each consumed 3 salads consisting of equivalent amounts of spinach, romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, and carrots with salad dressings containing 0, 6, or 28 g canola oil. The salads were consumed in random order separated by washout periods of at least 2 weeks, and the participants were instructed to avoid carotenoid-containing foods for 4 days preceding each test. Blood samples were collected hourly from 0 to 12 h post-meal.
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| Triangles = no fat, Open circles = 6 g fat, Closed circles = 28 g fat |
To quote the abstract of the study... "Essentially no absorption of carotenoids was observed when salads with fat-free salad dressing were consumed. A substantially greater absorption of carotenoids was observed when salads were consumed with full-fat than with reduced-fat salad dressing." Translation: no fat = no absorption. A little fat = a little absorption. A lot of fat = a lot of absorption. Doesnt get any simpler than that. We need fat for carotenoid absorption, no two ways about it.
The type of fat matters too. Another study examined the difference in carotenoid absorption in the presence of olive oil (monounsaturated fat) versus corn oil (polyunsaturated fat) (2). Absorption was shown to be much higher with olive oil in all cases, and this is likely to apply to other monounsaturated fats as well, like canola oil.
Why this matters: Its all about the kids.
But, you may say, these studies only apply to vitamin A precursors like beta-carotene... we get plenty of vitamin A in the diet so we dont need to worry about it. Not so fast. We consume enough vitamin A, yes. And nearly all of us absorb enough of it to prevent a deficiency. But does that mean we have enough to be optimal? Absolutely not. Especially for growing children, who need vitamin A for bone growth and facial development. Some evidence, like the work of Weston A. Price, shows that intake of vitamin A beyond just the minimum is needed for optimal skeletal development (3).
According to the authors of that first study, "Carotenoids are most commonly consumed in fruit and vegetables, and most populations depend on provitamin A carotenoids in these foods to meet vitamin A requirements." Since we know that the absorption of these vitamin A precursors is entirely dependent on the fat content of the meal, we can say that the presence or absence of fat in a childs diet may be the determining factor in their vitamin A status. In other words, your childs bone and facial development could be stunted due to a lack of fat in the diet. Every parent wants to do the best they can for their children right? Well, part of this would be liberalizing their fat intake.
The benefits of vitamin A.
The benefits of optimal bone development and facial structure are many-fold, but here are a few of them...
- Straight Teeth - Proper facial development will allow enough room for teeth to grow in and minimize the need for braces
- Injury Prevention - Giving your child a strong set of bones will lessen their chances of breaking one in the future
- Physical Attractiveness - Lets be real, people with fully developed faces and straight teeth are usually more attractive... and we all know there are perks to that (4)
Eating fat sounds like a no-brainer doesnt it? But this is a problem in todays fat-phobic society, with fat-free dressings and butterless school lunches. Parents want to do the right thing, but restricting fat is NOT the way to do it. We need a balanced diet with natural fats... natural fats like extra virgin olive oil, butter, coconut oil, and even some animal fat. A little fat does a body good. Let go of your fat phobia, please. Do it for the children.
Think Twice Before Feeding Your Child Cows Milk
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
In my previous post I discussed a recent study that reported an association between vitamin D supplementation and risk for type 1 diabetes (Preventing Diabetes - Can Vitamin D Protect Against Type 1?)I wanted to add a note for those looking to vitamin D-fortified cows milk for that supplementation. That may be problematic. Some studies, notably this 1992 investigation that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine:
A Bovine Albumin Peptide As A Possible Trigger Of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
... documented the ability of cows milk protein to initiate type 1 diabetes.
Heres how that is thought to work:
Children fed cows milk at an early age may develop antibodies against a specific protein in that milk which resembles a protein on the surface of pancreatic beta cells. The childs immune cells may then attack not only the foreign cows milk protein, but also the similar-looking beta-cell protein.
In the study above, the serum of 142 children with type 1 diabetes, 79 children without diabetes, and 300 adults were analyzed for antibodies against bovine serum albumen (anti-BSA antibodies). Findings:
- All of the children with type 1 diabetes had elevated levels of anti-BSA antibodies (all were above 3.55, averaging 8.5 kfU/microliter).
- None of the children without type 1 diabetes had elevated levels of anti-BSA antibodies (all were below 3.55, averaging 1.3 kfU/microliter).
- The 300 adults also had much lower levels of anti-BSA antibodies.
"Early cows milk exposure may be an important determinant of subsequent type I diabetes and may increase the risk approximately 1.5 times."Although some find the body of evidence indicting cows milk in the development of type 1 diabetes convincing, the scientific community still has not reached consensus.
In looking for a recent study addressing this link, I found the following article by investigators from Finland reporting in the ADAs journal Diabetes in 2005:
Environmental Triggers and Determinants of Type 1 Diabetes, Diabetes, 2005
In it, they continued to present evidence that early feeding of cows milk ... when coupled with a genetic predisposition or to exposure to an enterovirus at a young age ... can lead to type 1 diabetes.
As long as there is a strong dairy industry, there is likely to be controversy over this issue. It doesnt hurt, though, to be informed.
1 Cows Milk Exposure And Type I Diabetes Mellitus. A Critical Overview Of The Clinical Literature, Diabetes Care, 1994
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