News tagged with infant weight


Does mom know when enough is enough?

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States continues, researchers are examining whether early parent and child behaviors contribute to the problem. A study from the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers ...





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Smoking during pregnancy a cause of social inequality in stillbirths

Smoking during pregnancy a cause of social inequality in stillbirths

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tackling smoking during pregnancy may help to reduce socio-economic inequalities in stillbirths and infant deaths by as much as 30-40 per cent, according to a new Oxford University-led study ...


Infant weight gain linked to childhood obesity

Infant weight gain linked to childhood obesity

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As childhood obesity continues its thirty-year advance from occasional curiosity to cultural epidemic, health care providers are struggling to find out why--and the reasons are many. Increasingly ...


New infant feeding and obesity research adds insight to ongoing issue

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created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The February edition of the Journal of Nutrition offers new insights into possible associations between infant feeding and health outcomes related to obesity. According to David Barker, M.D., Ph.D., professor of clinical epidem ...


Safely transporting a preterm or low birth weight infant

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created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics should eliminate one of the many stresses of bringing a preterm or low birth weight infant home from the hospital.


Early parents didn't stand for weighty kids

Early parents didn't stand for weighty kids

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created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Scientists investigating the reasons why early humans – the so-called hominins – began walking upright say it’s unlikely that the need to carry children was a factor, as has previously been suggested.


Walking tall to protect the species

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created Dec 12, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The transition from apes to humans may have been partially triggered by the need to stand on two legs, in order to safely carry heavier babies. This theory of species evolution presented by Lia Amaral from the University ...


Bright light therapy may improve nocturnal sleep in mothers

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created Jun 09, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bright light therapy may improve a mother’s nocturnal sleep, decrease daytime sleepiness and be beneficial to her well-being, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd Annual ...


Insecticide-treated bed nets reduce infant deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo

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created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Giving insecticide-treated bed nets to nearly 18,000 mothers at prenatal clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo prevented an estimated 414 infant deaths from malaria, a study by University of North Carolina at Chapel ...


Newborns of South Asian and East Asian descent misclassified as underweight at birth: Study

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created May 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Babies of East Asian and South Asian descent are between two and three times more likely to be misclassified as underweight at birth when compared to their Canadian counterparts, according to a study led by St. Michael's ...


Non-parental care of infants tied to unfavorable feeding practices

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created Jul 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

With more new mothers in the workplace than ever before, there has been a corresponding increase in the number of child-care facilities in the United States. At the same time, data from a variety of sources point to a growing ...



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