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Infant Health Starts Before Conception

Exploring Health

The Role of Nutrition in Fetal Development and Beyond Development from fetus to child to adult depends on maternal nutrition and health long before conception. This is a time period of enormous potential, but also enormous vulnerability, says Melissa Young, PhD, associate professor of global health at Emory University.

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DPI seeks sponsors to provide summer meals

NC Health News

Summer Nutrition Programs are due March 1. Almost one million North Carolina K-12 public school students rely on the nutritious meals and snacks served during the school year through the school breakfast, school lunch, and afterschool meals programs, according to DPI. The Food and Nutrition Service, an agency of the U.S.

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New Jobs and Internships in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Maternal Health Task Force

Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. Here are positions open for applications in November 2024.

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Restricting sugar in children helps prevent diabetes later in life: Study

The Hill

That protection remains even if the children begin eating more sugar after age 2, according to findings published on Thursday in Science. Despite recommendations by public health authorities that children avoid added sugars in food — or foods that have been sweetened in addition to their natural ingredients — about 85 percent of U.S.

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Weekly Health Digest: Stem Cell Transplants, Sleep and Dementia, Sugar From Birth, Cold Meds Regulation

Exploring Health

by Alya Khoury New Study Finds Link Between Sleep Issues and Dementia By Ralph Ellis , WebMD A new publication in Neurology suggests that older adults who feel fatigue during the day are more likely to develop dementia. Leroy and colleagues study suggests that proactive measures now could prevent impairment later as we age.

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Toxic Legacy — How Lead Exposure Silently Fueled America's Mental Health Crisis

Mercola

Lead exposure has been silently fueling a mental health crisis in the United States. Unveiling the Hidden Toll of Lead Exposure on Mental Health The featured study 2 examined the profound impact of lead exposure on Americans' mental health throughout the 20th century. For every 5 g/dL increase in childhood BLLs, there was a 1.34-point

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Book excerpt: Detoxify

Environmental Health News

Like so many people, especially younger and younger women, Ashley appeared to have rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune disease marked by joint pain, swelling, and inflammation that can affect anyone at any age. Autoimmune diseases like RA occur when the bodys immune system attacks healthy tissue along with the harmful cells.