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Is Obesity COntagious?

Is Obesity Contagious?

A new report published in the journal Pediatrics has many common sense folks scratching their heads in confusion. Childhood obesity has become a major problem with more than 17 percent of American children now overweight, and most people realize that poor diet and lack of exercise are to blame. But a new study has somehow [...]

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Psycho-Educational Assessments Can Reveal Children’s Hidden Strengths

Many Intelligent and Capable Children do Not Achieve at School (NaturalNews) Since the No Child Left Behind Act came along, schools have been preoccupied with testing children. You may have received standardized test results for your child. You may have had some difficulty making heads and tails of these results, and if you were able [...]

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Children Need More Dirt to be Healthy

Children need dirt (NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have found that children who are too clean are at a higher risk of developing inflammation and disease. Normal skin bacteria that act to balance immune response protect the body from overreacting to cuts and other injuries. Excessive cleanliness is actually impairing children’s [...]

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Antidepressants Simply Don’t Work on Most Patients, Study Finds

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have found that antidepressant drugs do little to nothing for people with mild to moderate depression. Countering the belief that medication helps everyone with depression, Robert DeRubeis and his colleagues found that only in very severe cases of depression do antidepressants offer any sort of perceived benefit. Published in [...]

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GM Foods Are More Dangerous For Children Than Adults

GM Foods Are More Dangerous For Children Than Adults Excerpted from Jeffrey M. Smith’s Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods “Swapping genes between organisms can produce unknown toxic effects and allergies that are most likely to affect children.” —Vyvyan Howard, expert in infant toxico-pathology at Liverpool University Hospital, United Kingdom Changes [...]

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