Written by By American Academy of Family Physicians
By American Academy of Family Physicians
Part of your responsibility as a parent is to teach your children how to lead healthy lives. The best time to start teaching these lessons to children is when they’re young, before unhealthy choices become lifelong bad habits. When you want to pass on healthy habits to your kids, it’s important to practice what you preach. Just telling your kids what to do won’t necessarily work—they need to see you choosing healthy behaviors too.
A new poll of teenagers across USA finds that many of them are losing out on quality of life because of a lack of sleep. The results, announced today by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), cite sleeping in class, lack of energy to exercise, feelings of depression, and driving while drowsy as only some of the consequences for insufficient sleep.
Are you feeling sleepy all the time? Do you snore? Is your doctor having a difficult time treating your high blood pressure? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then you might have Sleep Apnea (also called Obstructive Sleep Apnea or OSA).
Understanding Cancer Statistics - A Patient's Guide
Written by Dr. Glenn S. Sheiner
By: Dr. Glenn S. Sheiner
Medicine is a field which is based on statistical analysis of thousands of patient outcomes. This is very apparent in the field of cancer treatment. In order to research and evaluate various cancer treatments, it’s important to be able to understand some medical statistical terms. The goal of this article is to help you comprehend some of the more commonly used medical statistical terms.
Written by National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
By
National Institute of Dental
and Craniofacial Research
What's wrong with sugary snacks, anyway?
Sugary snacks taste so good-but they aren't so good for your teeth or your
body. The candies, cakes, cookies, and other sugary foods that kids love to eat
between meals can cause tooth decay. Some sugary foods have a lot of fat in
them too.Kids who consume sugary snacks eat many different kinds of sugar every
day, including table sugar (sucrose) and corn sweeteners (fructose). Starchy
snacks can also break down into sugars once they're in your mouth.
Did
you know that the average American eats about 147 pounds of sugars a year?
That's a big pile of sugar! No wonder the average 17-year-old in this country
has more than three decayed teeth!
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