Children’s Health

January 3, 2023

New Year’s Resolutions – Part 2

Are you forging ahead with a list of New Year’s resolutions? What will increase your chances for success?

January 2, 2023

New Year’s Resolutions – Part 1

Have you started thinking about New Year’s resolutions? In some cases, holding off on a resolution may improve your chance of success.

January 1, 2023

How to prevent holiday depression and stress

Healio reported, “Ultra-processed food intake among mothers was associated with an increased risk for overweight and obesity among their children.

January 1, 2023

Monthly Family Update – January 2023

Here are the contents of this month’s newsletter: Annual Update At First Light to be honored at the National WWII Museum on January 10 At First […]

December 30, 2022

How do I pick a protein power? Which ones are dangerous?

For many years, I’ve strongly recommended ConsumerLab.com for evidence-based and trustworthy advice about purchasing or ingesting herbs, vitamins, or supplements. This week I’m running some samples […]

December 29, 2022

Probiotics: Are they safe? What do they really contain?

December 28, 2022

What are the risks of taking vitamins & supplements? Aren’t they safe?

December 27, 2022

Which sports drinks, powders, and pills deliver the right electrolytes?

July 18, 2009

Doctors can help parents help their overweight kids lose weight

Many parents don’t have enough self-confidence to implement and enforce changes in their child’s behavior that will reduce the child’s risk of obesity, researchers from Harvard […]

July 20, 2009

The word “abortion” is NOT in the Bible. So, how can you be against it?

A friend of mine, a family physician, recently wrote this to me: “Nowhere in the Bible do I find any definition of when life begins; in […]

July 23, 2009

Since an unborn child cannot live independent of its mother, is it life?

Here the second part of a discussion I’m having with a family physician who is wrestling with extremely important questions about the value of the unborn […]

July 27, 2009

Two dietary supplements used by high school athletes contain illegal and dangerous steroids

Two over-the-counter dietary supplements that anti-doping officials say are popular among high school football players contain steroids, according to court papers filed by federal authorities. More […]

July 27, 2009

Obesity rate in preschoolers may have finally leveled off!

Finally a good news story about the childhood obesity epidemic. An analysis published in the July 24 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report indicated […]

July 29, 2009

Does abstinence-based sex education work or not?

A friend, who is a family physician, recently wrote to me and said, of abstinence-based sex education, “It doesn’t work.” Is he right, or wrong? More […]