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- Supplements and cow's milk play biggest roles in determining vitamin D levels in children
- Youth attitudes about guns: Sixty percent of high school and college students consider gun ownership in future
- If we go over the fiscal cliff, will people spend or save? Childhood environments may hold the key
- Strawberries, blueberries may cut heart attack risk in women
- Social networks may inflate self-esteem, reduce self-control
- U. S. Federal Safe Routes to School program reduces child injuries by more than 40 percent in New York City
- Thirty percent of teen girls report meeting offline with someone they met online
- Popularity is an unconscious deterrent
- Childhood obesity linked to more immediate health problems than previously thought
| Supplements and cow's milk play biggest roles in determining vitamin D levels in children Posted: 14 Jan 2013 02:21 PM PST Taking a vitamin D supplement and drinking cow's milk are the two most important factors that determine how much vitamin D is in a child's body, new research has found.  |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2013 02:20 PM PST Sixty percent of high school and college students consider gun ownership in the future. Key findings revealed in poll based on personality traits, video games, gender, race, and political affiliation.  |
| If we go over the fiscal cliff, will people spend or save? Childhood environments may hold the key Posted: 14 Jan 2013 12:34 PM PST In the face of hard times, which strategy gives us the best shot at survival: saving for the future or spending resources on immediate gains? The answer may depend on the economic conditions we faced in childhood, according to new research.  |
| Strawberries, blueberries may cut heart attack risk in women Posted: 14 Jan 2013 12:29 PM PST Women who ate at least three servings of blueberries and strawberries per week had fewer heart attacks. Blueberries and strawberries contain high levels of compounds that have cardiovascular benefits.  |
| Social networks may inflate self-esteem, reduce self-control Posted: 14 Jan 2013 10:33 AM PST Researchers have obtained evidence on Facebook behavior and how it relates to users' self-control, body-mass indexes, and credit-card debt.  |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:27 AM PST The national Safe Routes to School program was funded by Congress in 2005 to create safe environments for American children to walk or bike to school. A new study evaluated the program in New York City and found that the annual rate of injury to school-age pedestrians ages 5-19 fell 44 percent during the peak times for walking to school, in neighborhoods where the program was implemented.  |
| Thirty percent of teen girls report meeting offline with someone they met online Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:26 AM PST A new study highlights the risk that female teenagers face when they go online -- a risk heightened for teen girls who have been victims of abuse or neglect. The study shows that 30 percent of teenagers reported having offline meetings with people they have met on the Internet and whose identity had not been fully confirmed prior to the meeting.  |
| Popularity is an unconscious deterrent Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:25 AM PST Although popular boys and girls get more attention from their classmates than less popular peers, they are often unconsciously avoided by those same classmates.  |
| Childhood obesity linked to more immediate health problems than previously thought Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:17 AM PST A new study focuses on the immediate consequences of childhood obesity and shows that obese youngsters are at far greater risk than had been supposed.  |
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