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Dietary Supplements Improve Cognitive Development in Children

European researchers have demonstrated that a multiple vitamin and DHA (fish oil) given regularly to children significantly boosts their learning power and cognitive performance.

Read More: children, DHA, Super B Complex

China – Soon to Be the Drug Kingpin

The Wall Street Journal has outlined for the world the rapidly expanding Chinese drug market. Many of the ingredients in brand-name drugs people already take come from China. China is already the largest producer of chemicals for drugs. For example, AstaZeneca's Seroquel, a powerful anti-psychotic medication that is routinely (and inappropriately) prescribed in an off-label manner to children for mild behavior issues is produced with chemicals that come from China.

Read More: children, China, generic medication, Seroquel

Doctors Over-prescribe Reflux Meds to Infants 80% of the Time

The IQ of doctors needs to be measured. Are they really this stupid, or are they just puppets of Big Pharma? A new study has found that doctors are handing out acid suppressing medication to children far in excess of what they should be doing, threatening the digestive health of a child for a lifetime. Sure the child has digestive symptoms. Quite frankly, this 80% over-prescription finding most likely relates to numerous medications. Doctors today have almost no clue how to fix health issues besides robotically writing a prescription for a symptom-suppressing medication.

Read More: Acid supressing medication, children, infants, prescription drugs

Quality Sleep is a Weight-Loss Key

I have long reported that sleep is the primary fat-burning time, especially when a person does not eat food before bed. Of course if you exercise you will burn more calories during and following exercise; but in terms of the ideal time of the day to simply burn more fat it is during sleep. Between meals during the day (assuming you do not snack) you will burn 60% glucose and 40% fatty acids. After 6 hours of not eating (such as during sleep) this ratio flips around and you begin to burn 60% fatty acids until you wake up, your prime fat-burning time if you have managed your daily eating patterns according to the Leptin Diet.

Read More: childhood obesity, children, eating before bed, fat burning, glycine, insulin, magnesium, metabolism, sleep

Early-life Stress Primes Inflammatory Genes for Later-life Disease Risk

Children enduring high stress while being raised program inflammatory genes (NF-kappaB and IL-6) to be in a state of heightened anticipation. While this may be necessary to deal with the associated problems of such stress, a new study shows that it is a clear disadvantage by the time the person reaches their 50s and 60s, as they are at much greater risk for early onset of the diseases of aging.

Read More: children, later-life disease risk

Seventy Percent of U.S. Children Lack Vitamin D

For the first time researchers looked into a large number of children (6000) from across the U.S. in an attempt to determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in this population. The results were shocking, a whopping 70%. This poses an immediate problem for flu-related immunity, a medium-range problem for obesity predisposition, and a long-term problem for future heart disease and cancer.

Read More: children, flu, Triglycerides, Vitamin D

Friendly Flora Reduces Childhood Infections

A double-blind placebo-controlled study shows that a daily supplement of friendly flora (lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidobacterium) significantly reduced infections and duration of illness in children ages 3 to 5 years of age.

Read More: bifidobacterium, children, lactobacillus acidophilus, Super Dophilus

Childhood Germ Exposure Improves Future Health

We are entering one of those phases in scientific history when old beliefs and paradigms crumble. The evidence of a cataclysmic shift is everywhere. One case in point is a new study showing that exposure to infectious germs as a child conditions the immune system to be more fit, resulting in less later life inflammation (much lower CRP) and therefore a significantly less risk for cardiovascular disease (not to mention a host of other inflammation-driven aging-related health issues). Of course, such a finding drives the germ-paranoid public health system wacky – as the fading paradigm of Western medicine is based on stamping out germs at all costs.

Read More: children, Daily Protein Plus™, furture health, germs, infection, Super Immune Booster™, Vitamin C

Childhood Sleep Problems Predispose to Future Substance Abuse

A long-term study now shows that children with sleep problems as young as age 3 are at higher risk for drug and alcohol abuse in their early 20s.

Read More: children, magnesium, Sleep Helper™, substance abuse, Taurine

Tylenol Linked to High Rates of Asthma in Children

There is an epidemic of asthma in American children. A new study of over 300,000 children is sounding alarm bells and indicates that Tylenol use may be at least partly to blame. One dose of Tylenol in the past 12 months was associated with a 43% increased risk of developing asthma. Higher use was associated with a whopping 240% increased risk. Even over-the-counter drugs are proving their dangers.

Read More: antioxidants, Candida albicans, children, glutathione, immune system, tylenol

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