Protecting Your Eyes From The Sun Just As Important As Skin
According to the American Optometric Association (AOA), overexposure to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays has been associated with several eye problems, such as age-related cataracts, pterygium, photkeratitis, and corneal degenerative changes. These may cause blurred vision, irritation, redness, tearing, temporary vision loss, and possibly even blindness.
Gregory Good, a member of AOA’s commission on ophthalmic standards, [...]
Some Nutrition Information For Young Athletes
Good nutrition is important for young athletes and is essential for health, performance, and normal growth.
Amanda Leonard, M.P.H., R.D., a pediatric sports nutritionist at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, recommends a young athlete’s diet should contain 20-30% calories from fat, 50-65% calories from carbohydrates, and 15-20% from protein. She also says that endurance training [...]
Heart Disease Begins At Childhood
A study by the Tulane Center for Cardiovascular Health in New Orleans suggests that the route to heart disease begins in childhood.
The researchers state that two of the biggest threats to heart health that can be traced to childhood are prehypertension and obesity. Prehypertension is blood pressure just below the official high blood pressure [...]
Kids Who Eat Better Perform Better In School
Research by the University of Alberta in Edmonton has shown that kids who eat better perform better in school.
Dr. Paul J. Veugelers and colleagues examined 4,589 fifth-graders who were participating in the Children’s Lifestyle and School-performance Study, of which 875 (19.1%) had failed an elementary literacy assessment.
The researchers found that the better a student’s eating [...]
Scientists Recommend More Sleep For Both Adults and Children To Stay Slim
Research performed at France’s INSERM, which is a public organization dedicated to biological, medical, and public health research, has shown that more sleep may be crucial to losing excess weight and beating obesity.
About 30 surveys were completed in seven countries on both children and adults. The researchers noted that the increase in obesity in [...]
