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		<title>Babies&#8217; Brains: When Does Consciousness Emerge?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/26/babys-first-consciousness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding the point at which babies&#8217; reactions change from being purely reflexive to reflecting more intention is leading researches to focus on the first glimmers of conscious thought in infants as young as 5 months old. “We can prove that the same neuromarkers of consciousness found in adults can be found in babies as early as five months of age,” says lead author Sid Kouider, a researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, of his new study on the earliest signs of conscious thought in infants that was published in Science. To look for consciousness in babies too young to talk, the authors took advantage of research on visual perception, which showed that the brain processes a great deal of visual information before any of it reaches a level of conscious awareness. EEG signals, which are measured by placing electrodes on the head, can clearly distinguish between visual data that is consciously seen and that which is simply taken in by the brain. These signals show a major change when a person first becomes consciously aware of an object that has previously received only subliminal attention. “There are two stages of perceptual processing,” explains Kouider. “The first stage is basically activation of neurons in the sensory cortex. Just a little visual stimulation — even if you can’t see it consciously — is going to activate [this brain region].” The brain still shows electrical activity on an EEG, for example, even if images or words flash by so quickly that they aren’t consciously perceived. (This information registers somewhere in the brain, however, because such “subliminal” data can affect responses to later tasks). The second stage, which can be reported verbally by adults, comes with a different signal and is essentially either “all” — when you can see it — or “none,” if the object isn’t visible at all, indicating a conscious level of attention and processing. To better understand how, and when these different levels of perception might be engaged in babies, the researchers placed EEG caps on 30 5-month-olds,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=85689&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much TV: Fussy Infants Spend More Time In Front of The Tube</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/07/too-much-tv-fussy-infants-spend-more-time-in-front-of-the-tube/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest study finds some temperament traits are more likely to land babies in front of the television. There is growing evidence that watching hours and hours of TV can prompt kids to eat unhealthy foods and gain more weight. So the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that infants under age 2 not be plunked in front of the set at all. But for many parents desperate for a relatively simple and quick way to occupy their babies, the television is still a convenient, if not ideal, go-to solution. Hoping to shed light on how to best help parents cut back on such TV time, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill identified certain characteristics among infants and mothers that tend to promote more hours in front of the screen. In the study, published in the journal Pediatrics, the researchers analyzed data from 217 African-American mother and infant pairs from the Infant Care and Risk of Obesity Study. At 3, 6, 9, 12, and 18 months after birth, the infants&#8217; mothers reported on their babies&#8217; temperament—how fussy or complacent they were—as well as their own TV viewing habits, including how long the TV was on during the day and how often they fed their babies while watching TV. (MORE: Watching TV Steers Kids Toward Eating Junk) Overall, mothers spent a significant amount of time watching television, and reported that they spent quite a bit of time feeding their infants in front of the TV as well. Infants just 3 months old were exposed to an average of nearly three hours of TV or videos daily, and nearly 40% of the youngsters were exposed to three hours of TV every day by the time they were a year old. More active and fussier infants were more likely to spend extended periods of time in front of the TV. The exposure was also higher among obese mothers, especially those with the fussier kids, leading the researchers to suggest that the television may serve as an easy entertainment strategy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=77296&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lasting Legacy of Recessions: Behavior Problems Among Teens</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/03/lasting-legacy-of-recessions-behavior-problems-among-teens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia B. Waxman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiscal cliff negotiations tested everyone&#8217;s patience, but even young children who don&#8217;t understand national budgets may show signs of strain during such economic insecurity. The latest research shows that financial crises such as recessions can adversely affect infants and young children who grow up in an environment of economic instability. Unemployment and reduced household income levels can cause emotional distress among adults and that anxiety can in turn affect how well parents provide for their children — especially if families have fewer resources to provide for their children&#8217;s education as well as attend to their social and physical well-being. (MORE: Unemployment is Hard on the Health, and The Harm May Add Up) A study published this week in the online edition of JAMA Psychiatry finds that infants born during and after the 1980 and 1981-1982 recessions were more likely to develop behavioral problems in adolescence, such as substance abuse and delinquency, than infants born during periods of low unemployment. The data on adolescents was gathered from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, backed in part by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and considered to be a representative sample of U.S. adolescents in that year. Led by Dr. Seethalakshmi Ramanathan of the State University of New York&#8217;s Upstate Medical University, researchers collected information from about 8,984 youth born between January 1, 1980, and December 31, 1984, including data on their family, community, criminal and delinquent backgrounds. Two recessions occurred during this time, pushing national unemployment rates from 6.6% to 11.4%. The adolescents, aged 12-16 years, answered questions about a range of behaviors, including past marijuana abuse, smoking, alcohol consumption, illegal drug use, arrests, handgun use, gang affiliation, property destruction, assault-related behavior, and both major and petty theft. Even after the researchers accounted for factors that could influence behavior problems, such as the participants&#8217; sex, ethnicity, mother&#8217;s age at birth, parenting environment, experience with foster care, and siblings who are gang members, the connection between being born during the recession and later behavioral problems remained. Adolescents who were exposed to even<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=77111&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iron Supplements May Improve Health of Low Birthweight Babies</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/10/iron-supplements-may-improve-health-of-low-birthweight-babies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia B. Waxman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Babies born at below average weight are at greater risk of developmental problems, but early use of supplements may lower that risk. Low birth weight infants are more likely than normal weight babies to develop both cognitive and behavioral issues; infections during pregnancy and antibiotic use by expectant mothers can contribute to low birth weight, and premature babies may be at higher risk of falling behind in school; those weighing less than 4.5 lbs may also be five times more likely to develop some form of autism. They are also at risk for iron deficiency, which has been linked to impaired brain development. But it wasn&#8217;t clear if treating that deficiency could help low birth weight babies avoid some of the later developmental issues associated with too little iron. Previous work found that 36% of low birth weight babies who did not take iron supplements were iron deficient at six months, compared to the 8% in the group that took 1 milligram iron supplements and the 4% in the group that took 2 milligram iron supplements. (MORE: Risk of Autism Is Five Times Higher in Low Birth Weight Babies) So researchers from Sweden designed a trial to see whether treating the iron deficiency in these infants could lower their risk of developmental problems later on. They studied 285 low birth weight infants who only tipped the scales at between 4.5 &#8211; 5.5 pounds (2000 g. &#8211; 2500 g.) and were born between March 2004 and November 2007. None of the babies in the study had chronic diseases that could have affected their developmental outcome.  The infants were randomly assigned to take one of three different iron supplement doses—1 mg., 2 mg., or a placebo—in the form of daily drops from the time they were six weeks old to 6 months of age. When the infants reached 3.5 years old, the scientists compared their cognitive and behavioral development to that of 95 babies with a normal birth weight. Reporting in the journal Pediatrics, the researchers say that about 12.7% of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=75467&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postpartum Exhaustion: Is It O.K. for New Parents to Solicit Friends to Cook, Clean and Empty the Trash?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/19/postpartum-exhaustion-is-it-okay-for-new-parents-to-solicit-friends-to-cook-clean-and-empty-the-trash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having a baby, as any new mom knows, is just the start of an exhausting cycle of duties that can prompt many a new mom to long for some helping hands. And many friends and relatives offer it, in the form of casseroles and quiches galore. But that wasn’t nearly enough for one Brooklyn couple, who decided to preempt the “How can I help?” question with a detailed, eight-item list of what they called “helpfuls,” and distributed it in a Google doc to their friends and family via Facebook, according to Gawker: “Come over at 10am, make me eggs, toast, and ½ a grapefruit. Clean my fridge and throw anything out that you doubt — don’t ask me, just use your best judgment. Clean the kitchen stove and the kitchen floor,” read one portion of the letter. In addition to purging the fridge, the list included folding laundry, going grocery shopping, dropping off  “a big super Greek salad with grilled chicken” — and keeping your mouth shut. As the unnamed mother wrote: &#160; Come over in your work clothes and vacuum, dust, clean the litter box, and then leave quietly. It might be too tiring for me to chat and entertain, but it will renew my soul to get some rest knowing I will wake up to a clean, organized space. &#160; It was one ostensibly offended recipient of the list who turned it over to Gawker, where the writer — whose name was mercifully redacted — has been both lauded for her honesty and vilified for the specificity of her requests. &#160; (MORE: Breast-Milk Donors Come to the Rescue of a New Mom with Breast Cancer) &#160; One reader wrote: &#160; …a normal person would write “would really appreciate it if you came over and helped us out a bit.” Friends would then come over, ask what needs to be done, and not feel like they are being given a grocery list they are expected to do and for no rational reason. &#160; On the other hand, another reader noted that: &#160; …people<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=74124&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Prematurity Day: 5 Ways to Reduce Preterm Births</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/16/world-prematurity-day-5-ways-to-reduce-preterm-births/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To mark the second annual World Prematurity Day, there is both encouraging and discouraging news about premature birth trends. The good news: a new study in the Lancet finds that five interventions, including the elimination of medically unnecessary C-sections and discouraging pregnant women from smoking, can reduce preterm birth rates by 58,000 births. The bad news: even if the 39 higher-income countries in the study were to vigorously incorporate those interventions, they would result in just a 5% relative decrease in premature births by 2015. Each year, 15 million babies arrive too soon — before 37 weeks of pregnancy — but experts are still largely in the dark about why this is happening. “Preterm birth is still a big black box,” says Chris Howson, vice president for global programs at the March of Dimes and a study author. “We don’t know the cause of 50% of all preterm births, and we still don’t fully understand the causes and mechanisms behind the other half.” What is obvious is that the following five interventions can reduce the preterm birth rate from about 9.6% of live births to 9.1% and save $3 billion in the process: Discouraging elective C-sections and labor inductions unless there’s a compelling medical reason Reducing the number of embryos transferred during fertility treatment Helping pregnant women give up smoking Providing women with high-risk pregnancies with progesterone supplementation Performing cervical cerclage, a minor surgical procedure, on pregnant women with short cervixes (MORE: Study: Children Born Too Early Have Lower Reading and Math Scores) The benefit in lowering preterm births would be greater in countries that have higher rates and lower in those that have fewer preterm births. In the U.S., it means that the rate of preterm births could drop by 8% while it would decrease by just 2% in the United Kingdom. The five recommended actions detailed in the Lancet emerged from a comprehensive report on prematurity called Born Too Soon released in May by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, a 50-organization international coalition on child health. That report called for developing specific solutions to limit preterm births. Because data was inconsistent<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=74036&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bacteria on Binkies: A Recipe for Crankiness</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/15/bacteria-on-binkies-a-recipe-for-crankiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Infancy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pacifiers are among the most aptly named baby paraphernalia, but what if, instead of curing crankiness, they are actually causing babies to be more unruly? That’s what the latest research suggests: that binkies can be teeming with bacteria, yeast and mold that can actually sicken babies rather than soothe them. Pacifiers breed biofilms, a slimy slick of bacteria that can affect the healthy balance of microbes in a baby’s mouth, according to a study presented recently at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP). “A lot of times when a child is cranky, the first thing a parent does is reach for a pacifier,” says Dr. R. Tom Glass, the study’s principal investigator and a professor of forensic sciences, pathology and dental medicine at Oklahoma State University. “But what are you using to treat the crankiness? It’s a vicious cycle.” It’s not just unpleasant from an aesthetic perspective; biofilms can potentially increase the likelihood of colic or ear infections and could possibly heighten the risk of allergies or asthma, says Glass. “We’re hoping to alert, not panic, parents that this thing they’re constantly putting in their child’s mouth has the potential to become heavily contaminated with disease-producing germs,” says Glass. To reach their slimy — if unsurprising — conclusions, researchers examined 10 used pacifiers from healthy babies. They diced up the devices, stuck them in a lab dish and waited for cultures to grow. Compared to new pacifiers, five of the used binkies were lightly contaminated and five were overrun with up to 100 million colony forming units (CFUs) of 40 different types of bacteria per gram; one pacifier had four different strains of staph, which can cause skin infections or, in more serious cases, sepsis. (MORE: Bring Back the Binky? Study Finds Pacifiers Actually Boost Breast-Feeding) A few studies have already suggested an association between germy pacifiers and increased incidence of colic and ear infections, so Glass and his colleagues plan to study that link further in future research projects. Plenty of parents, however, are still<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=73949&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Better Bandage: No More Ouch</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/30/a-better-bandage-newly-designed-medical-tape-peels-off-painlessly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hate the way bandages hurt when you take them off? There&#8217;s a new &#8220;quick release&#8221; medical tape that could take the pain out of keeping wounds covered. Biomedical engineers from MIT and Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital in Boston have created the ultimate medical tape &#8212; one that will stick but still peel apart easily, without yanking skin or body hair off along with it. It doesn&#8217;t matter how you take off bandages &#8212; quickly or slowly, they hurt. And it&#8217;s not just a matter of a little discomfort. Taking tape off improperly can cause serious injury among patients with weak skin &#8212; including babies born prematurely who are hooked up to tubes and other monitors secured to their skin. Conventional tape is designed to break apart at the point where the tape adhesive meets the skin, the researchers say. But a preterm baby&#8217;s skin will often rip more easily than the tape, so the tape itself stays together while the skin tears apart. In some cases, skin damage from tape removal can cause lifelong scarring. &#8220;This is one of the biggest problems faced in the neonatal units, where the patients are helpless and repeatedly wrapped in medical tapes designed for adult skin,&#8221; says Bryan Laulicht, who worked on the new medical tape. He and his colleagues outline their invention this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Their quick-release tape works with a unique three-layer design, which includes a newly created way to connect the tape&#8217;s adhesive layer to the tape itself. The interface substance is designed to be strong when pulled in almost any direction that a bandage might experience force, but to peel apart easily when the tape is pulled up and off. The inspiration for the idea came from nature, where this property, in which a material is much stronger along one axis than it is along another, is called anisotropy. Just as it&#8217;s easier to split a piece of wood along the grain than against it, the new medical tape requires only<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=72771&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faster DNA Testing Helps Diagnose Disease in NICU Babies</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/04/good-news-for-nicu-babies-faster-dna-testing-for-more-accurate-diagnoses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty hours. That’s how long it now takes to decode and interpret a newborn baby’s genome — an undertaking that used to take weeks, or even months. And those two days can mean the difference between life and death for a critically ill infant. In a paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers led by Stephen Kingsmore, director of the Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine at Children’s Mercy Hospital, describe a new genetic test that can rapidly screen the DNA of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for about 3,500 diseases known to be linked to single-gene mutations. Of these, doctors can treat about 500. Up to a third of babies admitted to the NICU have a genetic disease. But many newborns are not diagnosed properly and may therefore miss the opportunity for a potentially life-saving therapy. Many of the symptoms of such genetic diseases are both general and shared by many different conditions, which makes them difficult to diagnose; what&#8217;s more, many of the genetic conditions in question are rare, so most physicians, even NICU specialists, may not be familiar them or unable to recognize their symptoms. Currently used genetic tests are also too expensive and time-consuming to be clinically useful; because the tests can take weeks, or sometimes months, most NICU babies will have either gone home or died by the time the results are ready. (MORE: 23andMe Wants FDA Approval for Personal DNA Testing. What Can It Reveal?) So Kingsmore and his colleagues collaborated with Illumina, a manufacturer of gene-sequencing machines, to shorten the time it takes to both decode an entire genome and generate a clinically useful analysis of that sequencing. Thanks to recent advances in the ability to break up and re-knit DNA, the company was able to sequence the 3 billion base pairs of the genome in just 27 hours — down from weeks. But decoding a genome is only half of the challenge. Words in a book don’t make sense unless they are put together in a grammatically sensible<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=70783&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mom&#8217;s Depression May Lead to Shorter Kids</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/10/moms-depression-may-lead-to-shorter-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Infancy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children of moms who reported depressive symptoms during the first nine months after giving birth were more likely to be shorter than their peers by the time they reached preschool age, according to a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics. Previous research has found that a mother&#8217;s postpartum depressive symptoms can influence growth during the first two years of a child&#8217;s life, but the new study finds that the effects may persist in even older children. The researchers examined data on 6,500 kids who were participating in the U.S. Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort from 2001 to 2007. The researchers analyzed the height of children at three different time periods: 9 months, at age 4, and again when they were 5 or 6, approximately kindergarten age. (MORE: For Moms with Postpartum Depression, the Nation’s First Inpatient Unit) The research team found that at age 4, kids with mothers who had reported mild or moderate depression when they were infants were 40% more likely to be in the 10th percentile of height or shorter, compared with other kids their age whose mothers did not report early depression symptoms. By age 5, kids of depressed moms were 48% more likely to be at or below the 10th percentile of height. The study doesn&#8217;t prove that mom&#8217;s depression causes a child&#8217;s short stature, only that the two are associated. And the authors couldn&#8217;t confirm the underlying mechanism linking the two factors, but they had some theories: maternal depression can lead to increased stress in kids, for example, and chronically high levels of the stress hormone cortisol have been associated with lower levels of growth hormones in kids. Depressed moms may also have poor feeding practices like spending less time breast feeding. &#8220;Maternal depressive symptoms are associated with insecure attachment in children and with poor parenting behaviors,&#8221; the authors write. (MORE: Pediatricians Should Start Screening for Postpartum Depression) The study doesn&#8217;t report whether the mothers were suffering from clinically diagnosed postpartum depression, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 11% to 18% of women report having frequent postpartum<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=68270&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s O.K. to Let Babies Cry It Out at Bedtime</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/10/its-o-k-to-let-babies-cry-it-out-at-bedtime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When infants can&#8217;t sleep, it usually means Mom and Dad aren&#8217;t getting much shut-eye either. That, in turn, can double the risk of depressive symptoms in mothers, cause strife in marriages and result in costly trips to the pediatrician. For wiped-out parents wondering whether or not to sleep-train their restless babies, a new study in Pediatrics has some good news: strategies that let babies cry it out for limited periods while teaching them to sleep on their own can help families sleep better in the short term without causing long-term psychological damage in kids or weakening the bond between babies and parents. The study looked at two sleep-training methods known as controlled comforting and camping out, both of which let babies cry it out for short amounts of time. Controlled comforting requires the parent to respond to their child&#8217;s cries at increasingly longer intervals to try to encourage the baby to settle down on her own. In camping out, the parent sits in a chair next to the child as he learns to fall asleep; slowly, over time, parents move the chair farther and farther away, until they are out of the room and the infant falls asleep alone. (MORE: A History of Kids and Sleep: Why They Never Get Enough) While neither strategy is as extreme as letting babies cry all night by themselves, they have been criticized over concerns that they may cause long-term emotional or psychological harm in babies, interfere with their ability to manage stress or cripple their relationship with their parents. The new study by Australian researchers involved 326 children who had parent-reported sleep problems at 7 months. Half of the babies were put in the sleep-training group, in which parents learned helpful bedtime routines as well as the controlled-comforting or camping-out technique (parents could choose which strategy they wanted to use), and half were put in a control group that did not use sleep-training. The researchers followed up with the participants and their parents five years later. (By the study&#8217;s end, about 30% of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=68189&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Circumcision: Pediatricians Say Benefits Trump Risks</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/27/circumcision-pediatricians-say-benefits-trump-risks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newborn penis has been the subject of more than a little ink lately. San Francisco tried in vain to curtail circumcision. Germany recently ruled that the procedure constitutes “bodily harm.” “Intactivists” rail against circumcision even as most baby boys born in the U.S still get circumcised. Until now, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has remained fairly neutral on the subject. But on Monday, the influential pediatricians’ group updated its policy statement from 1999, stating that the “preventive health benefits of elective circumcision of male newborns outweigh the risks of the procedure.” The organization stopped short of routinely recommending the procedure for all baby boys, noting that the decision of whether circumcision “is in the best interests of their male child” should be left up to individual families. But they added that those families that choose circumcision — and most U.S. families still do, although the practice has been on the decline — should be reimbursed by insurance. “There has been a change in tone,” says Dr. Doug Diekema, a member of the AAP task force on circumcision and a pediatrician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. “We are saying that based on our review, male circumcision does have significant health benefits that outweigh the risks of the procedure.” (MORE: Uncircumcised Boys Have a Higher Risk of UTI) From 1999 to 2010, the CDC found that between 56% to 59% of newborn boys were circumcised. Circumcision has been on the decline in the U.S., from 63.5% in 1999 to 56.3% in 2008, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Inpatient Sample, which is commonly used to track hospital procedures and outcomes. A recent study in the Archives of Pediatrics &#38; Adolescent Medicine projected a health-care doomsday marked by a steep rise in infections and medical-related spending if circumcision rates continue to fall. Already, Medicaid in 18 states doesn’t cover circumcision, and the study’s author, Dr. Aaron Tobian of Johns Hopkins University, worries that private insurance companies will be quick to follow suit. “[W]ith private insurance carriers following the government’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=67390&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Happiest Baby Author, Dr. Harvey Karp, on Getting Your Baby to Sleep</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/21/qa-happiest-baby-author-dr-harvey-karp-on-getting-your-baby-to-sleep-like-well-a-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents wonder about lots of things — when to start solid foods, how to soothe their babies, when to ditch diapers and tackle potty training. But the biggest bugaboo, speaking from personal experience, is sleep. How much do babies need? And why don’t they seem to be getting it? On Thursday night, in more than 500 movie theaters across the country, from Union Square Stadium 14 in New York City to AMC Century City 15 in Los Angeles, Dr. Harvey Karp — described in promotional materials as “America’s favorite pediatrician” — will flicker onto the silver screen to host an evening dubbed as “Parent’s Night Out.” The name of the event is, in my opinion, a bit off. Shouldn’t Parent’s Night Out conjure up images of Appletinis and baked Brie, not more hours spent wondering what makes our little ones tick? No matter. Karp, author of the best-selling The Happiest Baby on the Block and its sequel, The Happiest Toddler on the Block, has a new addition to his pediatric pantheon. It’s called The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep, and it tackles strategies for lulling kids from birth to age 5 off to dreamland. At 7:30 p.m. local time, he’ll be sharing sleepytime tips as well as offering insight into his franchise, which involves how to get babies to stop fussing. “It’s kind of like a house call to the nation,” says Karp. (MORE: A History of Kids and Sleep: Why They Never Get Enough) The event, sponsored by BabyCenter, SwaddleDesigns and NCM Fathom Event, will feature a live screening of Karp doling out doctorly advice, which will then be broadcast to these theaters. It will be emceed by former Miss USA Ali Landry, a mom of two. Landry, who has founded a new product rating site called Spokesmoms.com, is a Happiest Baby acolyte. “My husband and I use Dr. Karp’s advice every single day! It has been a total lifesaver!” Landry gushed in a press release. Karp counts other celebrity moms and pops among those he’s helped — stars including Madonna,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=62547&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Soaps and Shampoos Trigger Positive Marijuana Tests</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/19/baby-soaps-and-shampoos-trigger-positive-marijuana-tests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commonly used baby soaps and shampoos can trigger false-positive results on newborns' marijuana screening tests, which may lead to unnecessary investigations by child services, a new study cautions.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=62262&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SleepSacks: Sleeping Bags Designed to Stave Off SIDS</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/13/sleepsacks-sleeping-bags-designed-to-stave-off-sids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1991, a baby girl named Haley Schmid died of SIDS. In the two decades since dimpled and dark-haired Haley was found not breathing, her death has sparked a quiet revolution in what babies wear to bed. Haley died asleep on her tummy at eight weeks old, shortly before the national Back to Sleep campaign kicked off. The premise of that initiative? To educate parents to put babies to bed on their backs to slash the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. Life-changing events often cause people to alter their course, and such was the case with Haley’s dad, Bill Schmid, who became determined to help reduce the number of SIDS deaths. “If there was any chance I could prevent this from happening to other babies, I had to do it,” he says. (MORE: ‘Back to Sleep’: Why Are 2,500 U.S. Babies Still Dying of SIDS Each Year?) A mechanical engineer by training, he developed a product that, 10 years later, has become a ubiquitous commodity available pretty much everywhere baby products are sold: the Halo SleepSack. The soft, sleeveless zip-up bags that replace blankets — which can potentially trap babies — come embroidered with airplanes and toy cars, ladybugs and teddy bears. There are branded SleepSacks sold by Pottery Barn and a Disney collection featuring Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse and the Disney princesses. Now hospitals are getting in on the glam, with some slapping their logo on the garments and sending new moms home with a SleepSack instead of the usual pink-and blue-striped flannel receiving blankets or diaper bags stuffed with free formula. More than 800 U.S. hospitals either gift the pouches or use them to demonstrate safe sleep techniques to new parents, now reaching 1 in 4 newborns in this country. “We can’t tell parents not to use blankets when all they see us do in hospitals is use blankets,” says Schmid. “The message we are sending has to be consistent.” (MORE: Controversial Posters of Babies with Knives Aim to Reduce Co-Sleeping Deaths) The Back to Sleep campaign<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=61883&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Help for Colic: Individual TLC for Both Babies and Parents</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/29/help-for-colic-individual-tlc-for-both-babies-and-parents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 14:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the bliss of bringing baby home from the hospital — until that baby begins to cry inconsolably for hours and fuss through feedings. A diagnosis of colic has brought many new parents to their knees, but new research from Brown University finds that infants who take part in “integrated care” — an unusual model being pioneered at Brown — stop crying sooner than those who see only their regular pediatrician for standard scheduled visits. For two years, researchers at the Infant Behavior, Cry and Sleep Clinic at Women &#38; Infants Hospital of Rhode Island followed 61 families whose babies had problems with colic, excessive crying and poor sleep. All the families kept their scheduled pediatric visits, but half were also given regular appointments at the infant behavior clinic, where they received integrated care in three sessions over 10-week periods. In this case, integrated care refers to tag-team intervention that includes a developmental pediatrician, a mental health clinician, social workers and clinical and developmental psychologists, who collaborate to troubleshoot both the baby’s distress and the impact that colic has on the parents and their relationship with their newborn. (MORE: Measure of a Mother’s Love: How Early Neglect Derails Child Development) The families filled out a behavior diary for their babies, recording in 15-minute blocks throughout the day what their baby was doing — eating, sleeping or crying — according to the study, which was published in the Infant Mental Health Journal. Researchers used that data — along with information about levels of maternal depression and paternal involvement — to develop a care plan for each baby who came to the clinic. They offered strategies for helping babies sleep better: if babies cried after feedings, researchers would consider whether reflux was a possibility. For catnappers who couldn’t seem to consolidate their sleep, researchers might suggest stricter schedules to help encourage a more defined sleep/wake cycle. In general, they made many of the same suggestions that pediatricians might, but they had considerably more time to ponder each infant’s individual situation and brainstorm solutions.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=60501&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want a Less Fussy, Easier-to-Soothe, Kinder Child? Make Music!</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/16/want-a-less-fussy-easier-to-soothe-kinder-child-make-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want a happier, easier to calm infant and a more empathetic child?  Three new studies suggest that teaching even the youngest children to make music with others can not only reduce distress and make infants smile and laugh more but also enhance brain development and boost empathy. For two of the studies, published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and Developmental Science, researchers led by Laurel Trainor at Canada’s McMaster University studied 50 six-month-old infants.  One group and their parents were given a weekly hour-long music class for six months. It involved learning specific lullabies, singing together, rhythmic movement and percussion instruments, with repetition both in class and at home. The class was based on the method originated by Shinichi Suzuki, a Japanese violinist who believed that starting musical education early and including parents as teachers would foster joy, character and discipline. Another group was enrolled in a class in which they and their parents listened to Baby Einstein CDs while engaging in non-musical play with books and toys, then listened to the CDs again at home.  The rest were not enrolled in special music classes. (MORE: Even Babies Can Recognize What’s Fair) By age 1, the babies who were actively taught musical skills were better able to distinguish between music which was played in key and music that included “off” notes, as measured by their preference for continuing to listen to it.  They also showed increased brain activity while listening to music compared to the groups that hadn’t received particular music-making instruction. But what&#8217;s probably of greatest interest to parents of fussy babies are the changes seen in non-musical skills. The actively-trained infants were less distressed by frustration, showed less anxiety about new experiences, smiled and laughed more and were easier to soothe.  The researchers write, “the active classes led to more positive parent-infant social interactions compared to the passive classes.” Moreover, the actively-trained infants also had better early communication development, as seen in activities like pointing and waving “bye-bye.” These indicators of shared attention<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=59639&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hidden Dangers of Baby Bottles, Pacifiers and Sippy Cups</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/14/the-hidden-dangers-of-baby-bottles-pacifiers-and-sippy-cups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They’re synonymous with infancy, but baby bottles, pacifiers and sippy cups may not be as baby-friendly as parents would like. Between 1991 and 2010, about 45,000 children under age 3 were treated in emergency rooms for injuries due to these products, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics. Most of the injuries were caused by toddlers falling while using them, with 71% of the injuries, including lacerations, mouth-related. Most of these accidents occurred among 1-year-olds, who were more likely to be just taking their first unsteady steps, says Sarah Keim, a principal investigator at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio and the study’s lead author. Compared to infants under 1 year, these toddlers were 7.6 times more likely to take a tumble and be harmed by something they had in their mouths. (MORE: Bring Back the Binky? Study Finds Pacifiers Actually Boost Breast-Feeding) Perhaps more reassuring was the fact that other sources of injury, including defects in the products, were far less common, especially after manufacturers changed the design of pacifiers to include ventilating holes to prevent choking and asphyxiation. The study is the first to take a nationwide look at the incidence of injuries related to these commonly used products and show that during the nearly two decades of the trial, the rate of injuries has dropped by nearly 30%. That’s good news, but Keim says parents could be paying more attention to how their toddlers are using bottles and sippy cups to lower the incidence even further. &#8220;When parents go to baby-proof homes, especially when infants are more mobile, closer to age 1, they should consider other aspects of the environment in addition to the usual things like putting up baby gates,&#8221; she says, &#8220;These include things like the products their children are using, and they should think about habits they might want to start with their children, like eating and drinking at the table in order to help reduce injuries.&#8221; (MORE: Q&#38;A: Celeb Mom Jenna Elfman on Breast-Feeding and Buying Organic on a Budget) Being aware of children&#8217;s changing mobility<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=59420&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Breast-Feeding Mom Jamie Lynne Grumet</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/10/q-a-with-jamie-lynne-grumet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Pickert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jamie Lynne Grumet, a 26-year-old mother of two in Los Angeles, is on the cover of TIME this week breast-feeding her son Aram, who turns 4 next month. Kate Pickert, the author of the accompanying cover story, &#8220;The Man Who Remade Motherhood,&#8221; spoke with Grumet about attachment parenting, adoption and breast-feeding, topics Grumet writes about on her blog, I Am Not the Babysitter. It’s clear from your blog that you’re into attachment parenting. Are you a fan of Dr. Bill Sears? He’s great. I’ve read all his books. He has a very gentle spirit, and I find what he’s saying to be nonjudgmental and relevant to what’s happening today and what we’re finding out about some of the issues that are popping up with our children’s health. I feel like he really is doing this because he knows this is best. And the way he does it is graceful and educating rather than condemning. (PHOTOS: Behind the Cover: Are You Mom Enough?) How old are your children? My adopted son is 5, and my biological son will be 4 next month. Tell me about becoming a mom and breast-feeding your children. We were starting the process of adoption when I got pregnant. We weren’t expecting our biological son at all. He was born two months early, and preemies that age don’t have a sucking reflex. The nurses in the NICU [neonatal intensive care unit] — they kept trying to put him on formula. I couldn’t see him for three days because I was so sick. I was basically passed out from the medication they were giving me. My husband is so great — he would bring the equipment in and actually do the pumping while I was asleep. It was a full family effort. My mother breast-fed me until I was 6 years old, until I self-weaned. Her encouragement to breast-feed is why we were so successful. (QUIZ: What’s Your Parenting Style?) And your adopted son? We were able to bring our son home in November 2010. I know so many amazing women who have induced their lactation, but<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=59148&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kids&#8217; Health Roundup: Child Obesity and TV Ads, Parents&#8217; Bad Math, and the Effect of Mom&#8217;s Stress on Babies</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a banner weekend for news about moms and babies as the Pediatric Academic Societies convened in Boston for their annual meeting. Researchers discussed childhood obesity, medication errors and the effect of stress on babies in the womb, among other topics. Here’s a summary of some of the findings: Could food insecurity increase risk of obesity? While it’s fairly obvious that obesity is a result of eating too much, a more subtle cause may be the fear of not having enough food, according to researchers at New York University School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center. It’s not unusual for low-income families to suffer from “food insecurity” — worry about whether they have enough food to feed their children. About one-third of 201 low-income, mostly Hispanic mothers with babies younger than six months old reported food insecurity, which in turn can influence portioning and frequency of feedings and can result in mothers pressuring their children to eat even when they’re not hungry. (MORE: Scientists Find Two Gene Variants that Predispose Kids to Weight Gain) Child obesity and TV commercials Simply being able to identify which television ads are associated with which fast-food restaurants can be a risk factor for obesity, according to researchers who found that teens and young adults who were most familiar with fast-food advertisements also tended to weigh more. Researchers at Children&#8217;s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center surveyed 3,342 teens and young adults about their eating and television-viewing habits, then showed them 20 still images from fast-food television ads. The ads had been digitally altered to remove the restaurant brands. Eighteen percent of those surveyed were overweight and 15% were obese. Obesity rates were linked with greater recognition of the fast-food ads: 17% of those who recognized more ads were obese compared to 8.3% of those who identified few ads. &#8220;Individuals who are more familiar with these ads may have food consumption patterns that include many types of high-calorie food brands, or they may be especially sensitive to visual cues to eat while watching TV,” said study co-author Dr.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=58482&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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