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Portion Distortion: How much your child eats can be as important as what he eats
Written by Josh Eberhard, DO
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Empowering Teens with Chronic Illnesses to Live Independent Adult Lives
Teens are learning important skills in all areas of their lives as they get older – everything from driving to managing their own finances. Learning to stay healthy, especially for a teen with a chronic medical condition, should be a priority.
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How To Prevent Your Child from Becoming Dehydrated
It’s not just vigorous activity in the heat that can cause your child to become dehydrated. Cold and flu season could also put your child at risk -- and it can happen faster than you might think.
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Childhood Diabetes: What Parents Need To Know
Like adults, children can experience two types of diabetes, and unfortunately they are becoming more common. Type 1 diabetes -- which has nothing to do with your child’s diet, sugar consumption or level of activity -- is by far more prevalent than Type 2 in children.
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Shaping Lives Through Everyday Victories
When we think of life-shaping experiences, we often recall childhood. We remember our first bicycle ride without training wheels, discovering our favorite foods or that first A on a school assignment — the everyday victories that helped shape our lives. For children and families who face neurologic conditions such as brain, spine and nerve injuries or disorders, life-shaping experiences take on different meanings where every word, step or smile can represent victories. Advances in pediatric neuroscience make these victories possible for children, even those who have not yet been born.
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10 Creative Ways to Keep Kids Active
Many families are struggling to keep fit, especially with jobs and schoolwork increasingly taking place on screens at home. Because of physical distancing requirements, there aren’t as many opportunities for school team sports, and kids doing virtual learning aren’t getting PE classes at school. Think about how a brief walk to the school bus stop a few streets over and even walking between classes counts as daily exercise. Going from your bedroom to your computer hardly comes close as a substitute!
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Child Heart Defect: Signs You Should Know
Is your baby not gaining weight, having feeding issues or breathing problems? It could be a congenital heart defect.
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How To Spot Eating Disorders in Kids and Teens
Are you sending your kids the right messages about food and body image? Eating disorders are diagnosed not just in teens, but in children younger than 12. So it’s important to teach your kids from an early age to have a healthy relationship with food and positive feelings toward their body.
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Bullying: teaching your kids not to be a bystander
Many of us who were bullied in childhood look back on those days with anger, sadness, and pain. We know how horrible it can be. For many that were bullied, it was truly a traumatic experience. Now, that we are adults, those days are long gone. However, now, we are the parents, and unfortunately, even though we may not have to worry about bullying for ourselves, we must now think about it in regards for our kids.
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Changing the way we feed our families
I don’t know about you, but mealtimes have become almost nightmarish around our house lately.
