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Quality of early childhood neighbourhood residence may be related to BMI t
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to a new study led by researchers at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, residing in neighbourhoods with higher opportunity or lower vulnerability in early life, particularly at birth, may be associated with a lower mean BMI trajectory and a lower risk of obesity throughout
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Problems with alcohol increase after weight-loss surgery in adolescence: R
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Youth who underwent metabolic and bariatric surgery as teenagers are at heightened risk for alcohol use, according to the first study to document long-term alcohol use and associated issues in this population. Researchers found that after eight years, nearly half of the study participants ha
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World Aids Day: Assam State AIDS Control Society organizes activities to g
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In order to create HIV awareness amongst the masses, ASACS has undertaken various activities by disseminating HIV messages in mass media (print and electronic), outdoor media, folk media (natika, ojapali), social media, piggyback activities during raas and durga puja festivals, events and HI
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Study: Obesity associated with poor brain development in children
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers revealed the connection between poorer brain health and higher weight and body mass index (BMI) in pre-adolescence using MRI data from the largest long-term study of brain development and child health conducted in the United States.
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Treating acne with systemic antibiotics can have consequences on maturing
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Adolescence is a time of significant skeletal development. One of the most universal, and sometimes distressing, experiences during adolescence is the development of acne a skin condition that results from the plugging of hair follicles with oil and dead skin cells. For some individuals whos
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Youngsters who believe they come from poorer backgrounds more likely to ha
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Comparing your pocket-money to your friends and feeling dismayed, may have far-reaching consequences according to a study published by a team of psychologists in the University of Cambridge.
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Study examines methods for teaching children forgiveness
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The researchers identified two things that parents and teachers may want to focus on related to forgiveness. One is helping kids understand how important it is to apologize in a meaningful way.
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Study outlines ways to help children learn forgiveness
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The researchers identified two things that parents and teachers may want to focus on related to forgiveness. One is helping kids understand how important it is to apologize in a meaningful way.
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Study shows how early inhibitions fuel future depression
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A new study has identified early risk factors linked to children's temperament and a neural process that could foretell whether an individual might develop depression and anxiety in adolescence and early adulthood.
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Strict parenting can genetically lead children to depression: Study
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], October 22 (ANI): As a result of strict parenting, the way the body perceives the children's DNA might alter. Children who grow up with restrictions may have these modifications "hard-wired" into their DNA, increasing their biological risk of depression in adolescence and later
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Research: Strict parenting may genetically predispose child to depression
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], October 18 (ANI): The way the body interprets the children's DNA can change as a result of strict parenting. Children who experience their parents as harshly can really experience these changes becoming "hard-wired" into their DNA, which increases their biological risk for depre
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Parenting practices in teen years set the stage for closeness and warmth l
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 5 (ANI): High-quality parenting practices in adolescence lay the foundation for close parent-child relationships when the children become young adults, according to new research.
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