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Good Tips For Summer Safety Around Water Referred By Mrs. Molly Green, RN : Water Safety And Young Children Young children can drown in only a few inches of water, even if they’ve had swimming instruction. Whenever your child is near water, follow these safety rules. Home Water Hazards for Young Children Each year many young children drown in swimming pools, other bodies of water, and standing water around the home. Take the following precautions to keep your child safe around water. Water Safety for Older Children Drowning ranks behind only motor-vehicle accidents as the leading cause of death among youngsters in middle childhood. In most cases, these children (and their parents) have overestimated their swimming ability and their knowledge of water-survival skills. Where We Stand: Water Safety The American Academy of Pediatrics feels strongly that parents should never leave children alone near open bodies of water. Swimming Pools: Staying Safe While Having Fun Having a swimming pool at home presents a danger to any family with children. Here are some essential safety measures for parents to help prevent your children from drowning. Drowning Drowning is a leading cause of death among children, including infants and toddlers. Most infant drownings occur in bathtubs and buckets. Toddlers between one and four years most commonly drown in swimming pools.
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Adolescents who meet physical activity recommendations may offset genetic obesity predisposition (http://www.pediatricsupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=63061) Adolescents who partake in one hour or more of physical activity per day may offset the effect of fat mass and the obesity-associated gene FTO. Researchers in Sweden conducted a cross-sectional study to examine whether current physical activity recommendations minimized the effects of mutations in the FTO gene on body fat in adolescents. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services guidelines recommend at least one hour of moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity per day for children and adolescents. The study included 752 adolescents who were part of the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence Cross-Sectional Study. Researchers genotyped the FTO gene, assessed physical activity by accelerometry and also measured weight, height, waist circumference, triceps, subscapular skinfolds, BMI and body fat percentage. Thirty-seven percent of adolescents did not have the FTO rs9939609 polymorphism; 47% had one copy of the mutation; and 16% had two copies. Adolescents who had the gene mutation also had a higher BMI (0.42 per risk allele), body fat percentage (1.03% per risk allele) and waist circumference (0.85 cm per risk allele) compared with adolescents who did not have the mutation. However, among adolescents who met the daily physical activity requirements, the effect of the gene mutation was much lower. For each copy of the mutated gene, adolescents who performed one hour or more of daily physical activity had a BMI an average of 0.17 higher than those with no mutations, compared with 0.65 higher per mutation among those who did not meet physical activity requirements. Further, each mutated gene was associated with a 0.4% body fat increase and 0.6-cm increase in waist circumference among those who met physical activity guidelines compared with a 1.7% increase in body fat and a 1.15 cm increase in waist circumference among those who did not. The researchers also identified significant gene x physical activity interactions for body fat percentage estimates for BMI (P=.02), body fat percentage (P=.06) and waist circumference (P=.10). “These findings have important public health implications and indicate that meeting the physical activity recommendations may offset the genetic predisposition to obesity associated with the FTO polymorphism in adolescents,” the researchers wrote. |
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Teach Better ADHD Behavior Through Chores Household chores work wonders in easing ADHD behavior problems and teaching discipline to children. (Read the article at www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/2995.html). |
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| Kids Health Website: If you're looking for information you can trust about kids and teens that's free of "doctor speak," you've come to the right place. KidsHealth is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years. On a typical weekday, more than 500,000 people visit KidsHealth. One of the things that makes KidsHealth special is that it's really three sites in one: with sections for parents, for kids, and for teens. | |
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New Healthy Children Website: www.healthychildren.org Whether you have a question about a specific condition or are looking for general guidance, you know you can trust us. That's because HealthyChildren.org is the only site backed by 60,000 American Academy of Pediatrics member pediatricians. |
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