Banning Sweets Can Make Them More Tempting: How Parental Restrictions Shape Children's Eating Habits
Experts advise against dividing foods into forbidden and permitted categories or using sweets as a reward for good behavior...
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AHA: Hypertension Before Pregnancy Increases the Risk of Congenital Heart Defects in Babies by 30%
Chronic hypertension—high blood pressure that existed before pregnancy or was diagnosed within the first 20 weeks—showed the strongest association with the risk of these defects...
Wildfire Smoke Exposure During Pregnancy Increases Autism Risk in Children
The strongest associations with autism were observed during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy...
More Than Just Mothers: Over Half of Children’s Household Exposure to Hepatitis B Risk Linked to Other Family Members
The study included 158,169 children living in 131,800 households, each with at least one other member enrolled in the same healthcare system...
Parenting Across Cultures: Physical Punishment Linked to Greater Anxiety and Aggression in Children, Study Finds
Another set of findings concerned parental warmth...
How Ultra-Processed Foods Affect Children's Brains: Study Links Brain Activity to Weight Gain
The results showed that children who consumed more ultra-processed foods had greater activation in the dorsal striatum, a brain region involved in reward processing and motivation...
Medical Xpress: Hypnosis and Psychotherapy May Help Relieve Chronic Abdominal Pain in Children
Symptoms can be severe even when medical examinations reveal no underlying organic cause. Swedish researchers are investigating whether hypnosis can help these patients...
JAMA Pediatrics: Smartphone Use After 10 p.m. Cuts Teenagers’ Sleep by 20 Minutes
According to Daniel Bigman, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist, smartphone use not only takes up time that teenagers could otherwise spend sleeping but also keeps their brains active...
AJOG: Birth Weight Is Linked to Later Performance in Math and Reading
Newborns were classified as having a low birth weight if their weight fell within the lowest 10% for babies of the same sex and gestational age...
Stem Cell Reports: Nicotine Exposure During Pregnancy Permanently Weakens Offspring’s Immune Systems
Their offspring had fewer hematopoietic stem cells — the cells that produce mature immune cells — as well as altered patterns of immune-regulatory gene activity in these cells...
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