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Do Children Spread COVID-19?
Two recent studies have different conclusions about children spreading COVID-19. First, a commentary published in the journal Pediatrics, concludes that children infrequently transmit COVID-19 to each other or to adults and that many schools, provided they follow appropriate social distancing guidelines and take into account rates of transmission in their community, can and should reopen ...
Thinking of the Children
Children’s health and well-being take center stage as back-to-school season is fraught with unprecedented disruption. Here’s how to do your part to help keep the community of kids healthy. Raising children is never easy for any generation, but arguably, parents today have a challenge their parents didn’t. And this challenge, of course, is COVID-19. While ...
Innovative Lab Test to Develop Easy-to-Swallow Medicine for Children
In an article published by the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, scientists compared traditional sensory tests and the new in-vitro method that was able to explain why smaller multiparticulates eased the travel of medicine from the mouth into the throat and body, reducing mouth residue. The new test let scientists easily screen different compositions of ...
Sprout Foods Leads Baby Food Into Healthy Territory
Sprout Foods (New Jersey) challenged the baby and toddler food industry, government and influencers to join it in elevating nutrition standards and provide healthier choices to help prevent obesity before it occurs. “Obesity is the most widespread and pressing childhood health issue, with the Center for Disease Control estimating the number of children with obesity ...
Sprouts Foundation Announces Day of Service, Support for Child Nutrition Education & Access
The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation announced that it is expanding the impact Sprouts Farmers Market has on local neighborhoods with its inaugural Make a Difference Day on October 27 with team member volunteer activities throughout the company’s communities. More than 500 team members will contribute 2,000 volunteer hours across 28 nonprofit organizations nationwide, with the ...
Study Finds Nutritional Benefits for Organic
The British Journal of Nutrition published results from a major study that found conclusive evidence that organic crops, and the food made from them, are nutritionally superior to their conventional counterparts, according to the Organic Trade Association (OTA, Washington D.C.). The study corrects many of the shortcomings of earlier studies and should put to rest any doubts ...
UAS Labs Donates Over $46,000 of Probiotic Supplements
UAS Laboratories (Wausau, WI) has donated over $46,000 of probiotic supplements to more than 50 nations. The donation supplied 187,534 servings of probiotics to these nations in need. In announcing the donation, Ken Seguine, UAS’ Labs vice president of sales & marketing, said, “We are happy to provide life affirming probiotics to children in need.” UAS Labs is also offering a ...
Regaining Control
Expanding waistlines and staggering statistics have consumers actively seeking natural options to help get their blood sugar in line.According to the American Diabetes Association, 23.6 million children and adults have diabetes—7.8 percent of the US population. Of these, 5.7 million do not know they have the disease.Each year, about 1.6 million people aged 20 or ...
Catering to Kids
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), supplements are rarely needed in middle childhood.This is because, it explains, the body needs vitamins and minerals in only “tiny amounts,” and most of the time, a balanced diet can usually present these in sufficient quantities.But the problem is often that youngsters aren’t eating balanced diets, even ...
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