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Could Childhood Obesity be a Genetic Disorder? Yes!
The July issue of Pediatrics reports convincing evidence (from an investigation of twins growing up in different environments) that up to 80% of the variation in body fat between children is genetic...
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Exercise Helping Children With Underlying Medical Condition
When children have an underlying medical condition, it is easy for parents and others to treat them as fragile. At the 1999 American College of Rheumatology meeting in Boston, experts reported that...
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Benefits of Exercise
Exercise during the teenage years may be one of the most important ways to prevent osteoporosis. The July 2000 issue of Pediatrics reported results from the ongoing Penn State Young Women’s Health...
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Asthma and Calcium: What You Need To Know
Dr. Greene’s take on asthma and calcium: Inhaled steroids may be important for treating asthma, but they may also decrease bone mass in the children who use them, especially those who take more than...
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Children, Exercise and Parks
We are raising the most sedentary generation of children in human history. However, a study published in the April 2001 issue of the American Journal of Public Health offers real, practical hope....
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Breastfeeding and Vitamins
Dr. Greene’s take on breastfeeding and vitamins… Research has shown that women who are dieting and exercising tend to produce breast milk lower in certain nutrients, such as vitamin B6, that are...
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Breast-Feeding and Obesity: What’s the Real Deal?
Dr. Greene explores contradictory studies about breastfeeding and obesity… It can be demoralizing when you get contradictory information about health. Two studies in the May 16th, 2001 issue of The...
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Exercise Guidelines Out of Touch?
Experts agree that this is the most sedentary generation of children in history. Computers, television, video games, and long hours seated at school combine to decrease children’s activity. Current...
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Cardiovascular Health in Children
Heart disease remains the #1 cause of death in the United States, killing about half a million people each year. Coronary heart disease used to be thought of as a disease of the middle aged and the...
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Bottled Energy
I’ve often heard parents comment, when watching their toddlers or school-aged kids jet giddily around the home (or restaurant), “I wish we could bottle their energy and sell it!” I wish we could, too....
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Obesity: A-to-Z Guide from Diagnosis to Treatment to Prevention
Introduction to obesity: You’ve probably already heard that we are raising the most overweight, out-of-shape generation of children in history. On January 21, 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and...
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Children Need More Play!
We know that active play improves school performance, concentration, mood and behavior. We know that obesity in children in skyrocketing. HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson’s report, “Physical Activity...
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Childhood Obesity and Quality of Life
We hear in the news that the percentage of American children who are obese has doubled in the last twenty years, and that the rate of increase continues to rise. Today about 1 in 7 children are obese...
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Couch Potatoes & Screen Potatoes Unpeeled
There’s good news and bad news. Dramatically good and dramatically bad. Duke University announced on May 28, 2003 the results of their 5-year randomized study on body fat. Two kinds of body fat...
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Baby Aerobics?
This is the youngest exercise program I have ever seen – and it had powerful results. The babies involved were tiny premies, averaging about 2 1/2 pounds in weight, and still 3 months before their due...
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Celebrating Good Health with Hearts N’Parks
A summer festival in the park, splashing, swimming, enjoying new outdoor games, and old favorites… Dancing, biking, bouncing, jumping rope, roller-skating, playing volleyball or tennis or soccer…A...
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Dieting Causes Kids to Gain Weight?
The more often that children dieted, the more likely they were to become more overweight over the next three years, according to a study of 14,972 children in the October 2003 Pediatrics. Binge eating...
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Sedentary Preschoolers
I love watching young children at play. Kids are designed with energy to burn. Unfortunately, though, they’re not burning it! Preschoolers are so naturally full of curiosity and energy that it’s...
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Blood Pressure in Children
What’s your three-year-old’s blood pressure? August 2004 guidelines from The National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on Children recommend that blood pressure screening begin at...
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Dad and Mom Prevent High Blood Pressure Together
High blood pressure, which used to be a disease of middle age, is becoming more common in children. Once a child has high blood pressure, unless there are significant lifestyle changes, the high blood...
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