23rd December, 2008 - Posted by admin - No Comments
 WASHINGTON: Only three percent of kids’ meals served at fast-food restaurants met federal dietary guidelines in the first ever study to examine  the nutrient quality of such meals in a major metro market. Michigan State University’s Sharon Hoerr, a food science and human nutrition researcher, teamed up with economist Sharon O’Donnell and pediatrician Jason Mendoza from Baylor » Read More
16th December, 2008 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Kids who sleep less than 10 hours a night are likely to become overweight by age 6, a new study has found. The research team led by Universite de Montreal found that 30 per cent of children in the age group 6 months to six years have difficulties sleeping six consecutive hours — either because they » Read More
16th December, 2008 - Posted by admin - No Comments
NEW ORLEANS: Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart  disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside. “As the old saying goes, you’re as old as your arteries are,” said Dr. Geetha Raghuveer of Children’s Hospital in Kansas City, » Read More