| Children's Health: |
| Texting Food Diaries Helps Kids Stick With Diets (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Experts hope that letting
kids have their fingers do the texting will increase compliance with the
food diaries that are such a critical part of successful dieting. |
| Health Tip: Is Your Child More Prone to Ear Infections? (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Ear infections are common in children, and
may occur for a variety of reasons. |
| Child-Care Relationships Tied to Kids' Stress Levels (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Bickering parents and poor
caregiver relationships each increase levels of the stress hormone
cortisol in children, new studies say. |
| Obese kids have prematurely aged neck arteries (Reuters) |
| Reuters - The neck arteries of obese children and teens look more like those of 45-year-olds, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's annual meeting. |
| Greener Neighborhoods Mean Slimmer Children (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) - Greener neighborhoods, with
lots of trees, help inner city kids keep excess pounds at bay, according
to a U.S. study. |
| Death Rates Higher for Minority Children Awaiting Heart
Transplant (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Minority children waiting for a
heart transplant have a higher death rate than white youngsters, say
researchers who analyzed eight years of data from the United Network of
Organ Sharing. |
| Obese Kids Have Old Arteries (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Kids these days are 13 going
on 45, at least when it comes to their arteries. |
| Fat kids found to have arteries of 45-year-olds (AP) |
| AP - 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. |
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