Child Health
When bananas are ripe, an enzyme known as tyrosinase causes small and round black dots on their skin which may help to unlock an easier and faster way of diagnosing human skin cancer because the same enzyme is present in human skin as well. It is found in large quantity in the skin of people affected from Melanoma, which is a deadly form of skin cancer. A team of scientists observed this similarity which helped them build a cancer scanner which was proved effective when first tested on banana peels and then on human tissue.
Every mother wants her baby to be in good health and according to a new study, Vitamin D could just be the right supplement. It is during the last stages of pregnancy when the bones of the baby strengthen. Studies found that babies born during winter had greater bone mass than those in summer because women tend to receive Vitamin D from sunlight in the summer which gradually drops in winter. Hence, it was effectively proved that consuming Vitamin D during pregnancy can help strengthen the bones of babies born in winter.
Since Feb-March is exam time, parents are replacing the regular meals with healthy and nutritional meal for better performance of students. However, exam nutrition is not only about counting calories. Poor nutrition can lead to lack of concentration and one's ability to perform well under pressure. To ensure that the body functions at its optimum level, avoid providing them with junk food, push for more proteins and less caffeine, and most importantly giving freshly cooked food. Also, make sure they consume adequate water and get proper sleep.
Based on the data from a study conducted on rats, if alcohol is consumed by a woman during pregnancy, it not only affects her child but also increases the possibility of developing alcoholism in the next three generations. It was observed that if a mother consumes alcohol equal to one glass of wine minimum four times a day during pregnancy period, her offspring and grand-offspring are less sensitive to alcohol and prefer it more. The risk of her progeny becoming alcoholic increases even if the mother drinks a little bit of alcohol.
In front of Aster Public School in Mayur Vihar Phase I, garbage overflowed outside the walls of the dump. The residents of the area have undergone the ordeal over the past week because the cleanliness workers of the East and North corporations have been on strike for not being paid for 3 months. The school children, their parents and surrounding food stalls are affected.
The detrimental effects of consuming junk food that contained high salt, sugar and fat were elucidated to students in an awareness programme planned by VKV, Itanagar. The risk of developing diseases such as type-2 diabetes, chronic inflammation, heart disease and more are found to adversely affect the physical and cognitive development in children. Students must avoid junk food and consume nutritious healthy food.
The Virginia Department of Health’s Summer Food Service Program seeks local financially stable organizations to offer summer meals to children. Hunger hinders the learning process leading to poor performance once the next academic year begins due to not having nutritious meals in summer. The program will provide nutritious meals to children aged 18 and younger, students over the age of 18 who are challenged and who partake in a vocational program.
Child Nutrition Reauthorization has been pursued by Congress. But how will schools operate the food departments with only a $3 lunch reimbursement rate and how can a balance in living wages for staffs with good-quality food for students be ensured? It's a challenge to the Congress to realize how wages, the economy and immigration reforms affect the children’s food.
More than half of the schools in Singapore are serving healthy meals with less sugar, fat and salt and a fruit raising the prices of food in the school canteens. It is very important for students to eat healthy meals in school. The cooks and canteen staffs are given training on healthy cooking methods like using ovens and grills.
Kevin Niswender, Vanderbilt University Medical Centre in US, said that children and adults are primed towards eating more. According to a new study, mindfulness can be an effective way to help children fight against obesity. They found out that there was a difference in the brain networks of obese children as compared to healthy-weight children. They added that mindfulness might be an effective way to bring balance in brain networks stopping children and young adults to over-eat.