Children
Prevalence of Obesity and Trends in Body Mass Index Among US Children and Adolescents, 1999-2010 [Original Contribution]
Context The prevalence of childhood obesity increased in the 1980s and 1990s but there were no significant changes in prevalence between 1999-2000 and 2007-2008 in the United States.
Objectives To present the most recent estimates of obesity prevalence in US children and adolescents for 2009-2010 and to investigate trends in obesity prevalence and body mass index (BMI) among children and adolescents between 1999-2000 and 2009-2010.
[Comment] A call for coordinated and evidence-based action to protect children outside of family care
A caring and protective family, immediate and extended, is central to effective child protection. Children in the most dire straits, however, live without protective family care. These children may be found living on the streets or in institutions, trafficked, participating in armed groups, or exploited for their labour. Children in such circumstances often experience abuse, neglect, lack of stimulation, and extreme and toxic stress, all of which have a profoundly negative effect on a child's development and adult outcomes.
Parental and societal values may present barriers to outdoor activity for children in child care centers
Three-fourths of preschool-age children in the United States attend child care, and many are not getting enough outdoor physical activity, which may be due in part to parental and societal values about injury prevention and kindergarten readiness.
Vitamin A supplementation in children and hearing loss
For most clinicians, vitamin A is first and foremost associated with eye disease.
Bacteria in the gut of autistic children different from non-autistic children
The underlying reason autism is often associated with gastrointestinal problems is an unknown, but new results reveal that the guts of autistic children differ from other children in at least one important way: many children with autism harbor a type of bacteria in their guts that non-autistic children do not.
New light shed on how children learn to speak
Researchers have discovered that children under the age of two control speech using a different strategy than previously thought.