Tag: children’s health
Helping children develop healthy eating habits now is the key, the experts say, because the dire consequences are coming fast.
By Mary MacVean, Los Angeles Times Are the millions of dollars spent to try to reverse childhood obesity a good investment? One answer might be found in the cost if the condition goes unchecked: about ...
By Mary MacVean, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — If legislation banning smoking protects people from disease, then the proportion of the world population covered by such laws is too low — just 16 percent, ...
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Facing a world full of potential dangers for the babies they carry, pregnant women hear regularly that acetaminophen can be trusted to reduce fevers and relieve aches and pains ...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times A small number of children in California have come down with polio-like illnesses since 2012 — suffering paralysis in one or more limbs and other symptoms — and physicians ...
