Never too late to start exercising, but the sooner the better. A new study from the University of Illinois says that physically active children tend to be smarter and have better memories than those who do not exercise. Do you want your kids have better grades in school? Well then, send them to gym class.

That exercise improves memory is not new. However, this research has found that the effects of physical activity are already being felt in childhood, as the child’s brain develops well if they exercise.

After analyzing the brains of 49 children aged between 9 and 10 years through magnetic resonance imaging, concluded that the hippocampus, one of the most important structures of the human brain is 12% larger in active children. Consequently, these children had higher scores on memory tests.

Prof. Art Kramer, a leader of this research, says the results are very important for everyone to become aware of how good it is to exercise early. Thus, all parents and schools should take priority and encourage physical activity in children.

As you saw, exercise is as important as studying for school children are held.

For more arguments or discussions you had during childhood and youth, you know perfectly well you love your dear sister and you could not live without it. Also, did you know that sisters have improved mental health?

A study by Brigham Young University found that the good relations between brothers, sisters especially women, has positive effects on our mind, so much to help combat stress. This study again demonstrates the importance of emotions and feelings on health.

The researchers studied 400 families in the city of Seattle made up of two or more children between 10 and 14. According to his observations, having a sister is more beneficial than having a brother because women prevent their sisters feel alone, unloved and scared. ” This is because girls are naturally more communicative and demonstrative than men.

Another interesting finding of this study is that sibling influence may be much stronger in children’s own parents’ influence. This means that the fraternal bonds are often conflicting direct cause of bad behavior in children, because when two brothers fight generated significant emotional damage.

While fighting between siblings are common, no parent should be allowed to occur. Now that you know the positive effects of a good relationship between brothers, do not ignore the fighting between your children.

All we have ever jumped scared of bed after a bad dream. Sometimes we dream things so bad that we suddenly wake up sweaty and anxious, scared, nervous and anxiety until, luckily, we realize that it was all a dream. These dreams, whose images represent undesirable or unpleasant situations we are called nightmares.

While we’ve all had a nightmare once, especially when we were kids, you might be surprised to know that there are people who can not stop suffering. In this case, we speak of a specific disorder parasomnia or sleep behavior that makes the person feel afraid to go to bed, every night believing that sentence to a bad dream.

Nightmares tend to occur during REM, which is the fifth stage of sleep and therefore appear late at night. It is a very common problem that affects almost all children once before six years. It also affects adults, although women more often they occur.

How are the nightmares? If you suffer from frequent nightmares, you’ll probably make it difficult to sleep every night. For that reason, it is advisable to visit a specialist to make the diagnosis of the problem. Maybe the nightmares are a symptom of stress or anxiety.

Another mechanism to deal with nightmares is through the therapist, because dreams represent images, feelings or thoughts stored in the unconscious. A specialist helps to release all that trouble us and unleash our nightmares. That is why hypnosis is also part of the treatment against nightmares.

Summer ends, and most people already have been reintegrated into the productive life of citizens, but many others are still on holiday with their children. The time sometimes comes back with an extra ingredient which we talk  post holiday syndrome.

This mismatch with the obligations and responsibilities, may create a few headaches, which simply translates into a low work performance, fatigue and stress. Not only adults suffer from post holiday syndrome, children also suffer and it is good prevention.

That is why it is good as to prepare children for school back and tackles, so avoid giving full with a reality that does not undergo three months ago and post holiday syndrome is made present.

It is important to be adapting to the children to new schedules. Bed early, set meal times, study up, etc. This will help the child back to school deal with a more organized and not all at once, which can cause a slow and complicated adaptation in the early weeks.

It is essential that house was warm and quiet, harmony and relaxation time, since it makes no sense to burden children with activities and obligations immediately.

Unfortunately, no one is free from stress does not discriminate on gender, race, socioeconomic position, religion, personal interests and certainly not age. Concerns about job search and work pressure in adults has its pair when it comes to school stress in children.

We were all children once and we remember those distant times when we cried when we had to leave our toys to make the impossible math homework. Not to mention when, a little larger, we face the challenge of studying history and geography lessons for the first test of school and trying the best qualifications for Mom and Dad congratulated us.

School performance is a greater or lesser degree of concern, headache and tears in children. According to the Journal of Family Psychology, the solution is in the hands of parents with signs of support and companionship. For example, if the child has difficulty with time to organize homework, it’s best to instill the importance of the use of free time. Do not leave everything to the last minute! We help you put together a plan of organization.

Another variable that influences children’s school stress is the pressure of their parents. If one day turned out well the exercises or has not had good grades in spite of their efforts in any way we can make them feel bad. Punishments are useless or grumblings: the best thing that can make all parents for their children is to advise, accompany and support them to learn to overcome these obstacles in life.

This council will serve them forever, because as you mentioned, the stress does not discriminate against age.

It does not represent malnutrition measuring the volume of people eat or failure in dealing with food. It is medically tested malnutrition not eat adequate amounts of protein and energy and other nutrients and also examine injury or disease infection. The food situation for any person who is a product of complex interactions between the food we eat and the state of public health and the environment in which we live and summarized in three words: lack of malnutrition: Food – Health – Care are the pillars of good health.

The definition of malnutrition:
Malnutrition is not for the human body with enough food. This situation may result in lack of a balanced diet, indigestion, malabsorption, or any other medical disease.
Synonyms and other malnutrition is not enough nutrition.

Causes of malnutrition:
Malnutrition is probably one of the following reasons:

• Lack of vitamins in food (one of the vitamin just enough to malnutrition).
• Individual not have access to enough food.
• Hunger is a form of malnutrition.
• Malnutrition also occurs when they eat in an integrated way, but in one or more of the nutrients are not digested or absorbed.
• Addiction to alcohol.
• Swelling of the colon.
• An eating disorder.

It may show symptoms of malnutrition, if the case may be central or severe and may cause serious damage to health can be addressed and the person remains alive.

The problem of malnutrition is a global problem, especially in children, and helps in poverty, natural disasters, as well as

Symptoms of malnutrition:
The symptoms of malnutrition, according to the type of disease, which affects the rights and food, but there are some common symptoms, which include, fatigue, nausea, weight loss, decreased immune response human body, confusion, gas, depression, diarrhea, dehydration, and obesity.
If left untreated, malnutrition can lead to a change in function of the body, but biochemical and structure related to blood disorders such as represented in bleeding.
In advanced stages the skin becomes dry, falling teeth, swollen and bleeding gums, hair becomes dry and brittle and flaking, Taatqar nails become brittle and weakens the consideration, are affected by bone and joint disease.
Testing and inspections by a person to detect malnutrition also depending on the diseases related to malnutrition, but most of the assessment of a person in terms of food and by blood tests.

Diseases of malnutrition:

• The fragility of bones.
• Digestive disorders.
• The up and the rapid emergence of all types of infection.
• (Cancer heart disease).

Treatment of malnutrition:
Treatment consists mostly of food supply to the body which lacks, treat symptoms, and treatment of any health disorders arising from malnutrition.
Will you treat malnutrition College and disappear after you follow the previous steps? It depends on the cause of most types of nutritional deficiencies can be treated .. But if the cause of other satisfactory state of health should be the original treatment of disease caused by malnutrition and symptoms will disappear as an inevitable result of malnutrition.

Implications of malnutrition:
If not dealt with malnutrition, it is possible that lead to mental or physical disability or mental illness or physical .. And even death.

When to consult your doctor that you are suffering from malnutrition?
If you notice any changes in the body’s ability to perform its functions and we found symptoms including but not limited to: fatigue, weakness in the descent of the female menstrual cycle, poor growth in children, rapid hair loss.

How to prevent malnutrition?
Eat a healthy balanced diet helps to prevent or avoid the incidence of most forms of malnutrition

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Pass your exams first!

New zealand researchers have explored the links in the longer term. They observed the fate of more than 1 000 children born between 1972 and 1973, focusing on their school careers. They made two findings on the consequences of the abuse of television:

• The TV in childhood (between 5 and 11 years) is linked to failure to complete a university;
• The television during adolescence (between 13 and 15 years) increases the risk of leaving school without any qualifications.

In the first case, it seems to deny the positive impact of television for over three years. In the longer term, the effect seems deleterious.

As for problems during adolescence, the explanation seems simple: the result of watching too much television night certainly revisions and homework …

No TV in bedroom

To limit the time spent watching TV, you’d better delete the post in your child’s bedroom. This is underlined by another american’s study . Researchers have shown that for a primary school child to have a TV in his room had a direct influence on intellectual performance. It was worse on cognitive tests on math or reading.

Needless to demonize provided television, some programs can help develop the imagination of the child, others make it practical knowledge. But TV does not replace all other activities, outings, reading, games … And if you want your child does not watch too much television … show the example!

The eternal debate about the influence of television in children has been revived by American researchers and New Zealand. This time, there is no violence or overweight; scientists are interested in the influence of television on the intellect.

Surfer baby

Television enfantsQuel is the effect of television among younger? This is the question asked by scientists who compared américains1 intellectual performance of children 6 and 7, linking the time they spent watching TV before age 3, then three to five years. First observation: for three years, small American watch already over two hours per day on TV. After three years they spend more than three hours.

Researchers have found two different effects from the small screen according to age:

• Within three years: The children who spent the most time watching television had lower scores on tests of reading comprehension and memory.
• After three years: The fact of watching television brought an advantage, but only in reading.

Note that in both cases, changes in cognitive performance remains extremely modest. For researchers, the most expected recommendation is to limit television generally, and proscribed by the age of two years.

Beware of familial hypercholesterolaemia

In children, the discovery of a high cholesterol remains infrequent.

Faced with moderate hypercholesterolemia, simple dietary measures are recommended. From a medical point of view, only the cholestyramine is permitted before the end of puberty. A management classic takes over in early adulthood.

Faced with severe hypercholesterolaemia (with an LDL> 1.9 grams per liter despite the diet), a genetic origin is often suspected. This hereditary disease will not have the same consequences if one parent is affected (heterozygous form) or if both are (homozygous). In the first case, statins or combination therapy should be considered. In the rare homozygous forms, only liver transplantation or treatment of specific plasma cholesterol levels (also called LDL apheresis) are really effective, but these children belong to a support by specialized services.

Childhood obesity and cholesterol: dangerous relationships

Poor diet and too much inactivity are factors that promote overweight and obesity. These excesses are the source of lipid disorders including high levels of cholesterol. Even among very young children, overweight and obesity can cause a cascade of cardiovascular risk factors like high cholesterol but also hypertension or insulin resistance.

In terms of overweight and obesity, France tends to adopt gradually the bad behavior of Americans. Thus, the percentage of obese adults increased as the children.

Remember, it was Tuesday, December 16, 1997. More than half of Japanese youth awaiting episode 37 of their favorite series: the Pokemon. After 20 minutes, the scene of the cartoon unfolds: Pikachu deck his opponent with a succession of flashes red and blue. And there is drama: 11 000 Japanese teenagers are victims of ailments, 618 must be hospitalized due to seizures of convulsions.

Flashes of light

Immediately after the Pokemon incident, a battery of experts (pediatricians, psychiatrists, neurologists …) gather to understand. Their explanation was soon all these children were suffering from a form of epilepsy called photosensitive. This particular form of epilepsy for a 20. About 0.5 to 0.8% of children aged 4 to 14 years would be involved. The mechanisms triggering seizures are still poorly understood. According to Italian scientists, this problem can be explained by an inability of the brain to control his reactions when the eye is subjected to flashing lights or alternating high-contrast images. These researchers have also highlighted the fact that crises are triggered when the frequency of flashes is between 4 and 14 Hertz.

Risk Warning

Thus, these crises can occur only among people with existing predispositions. In children with epilepsy, the photosensitive character can be assessed by electroencephalogram (EEG). But sometimes this form escapes detection. However, many people are unaware they are suffering from photosensitive epilepsy and may discover it during a game or a television. Regarding video games, in fact, manufacturers are now obliged to include a warning about the risk of occurrence of seizures. But what precautions are taken to television programs, including those for youth?

Nintendo exonerated?

Asked about this, Nintendo, inventor of Pokemon, denies any responsibility in cases of epilepsy that hit Japan. In this case, the company said it has not participated in the design of the cartoon. If there is fault, it relates to both the producer, who would have control of the cartoon made, and the chain (Tokyo Channel), which would verify the program before broadcast. At Nintendo, we are assured that we take all precautions necessary. The company said it was the first to include warnings to prevent epilepsy in his videogames.

All episodes verified by TF1

It is thus the broadcaster to control himself its programs. It seems indeed, since the accident in Japan, all channels verify their content. This is confirmed Poussier, Program Director of Youth TF1 channel which broadcasts the Pokemon cartoon: “As soon as we receive a new series, we undergoes a series of tests designed to protect spectators. First Several people from the Youth team will view every episode. Then, three psychologists also watch the series. These two checks to detect any problem with editorial content. Finally, our technical services also check the episodes they are capable of detecting sequences likely to trigger photosensitive seizures. We are particularly vigilant with regard to the Japanese series. For the Pokemon cartoon, I personally asked the distributor to send us all the tapes to verify, before taking the decision to buy. Anyway, the series had already been vetted by the Japanese and American scientists. Moreover, the episode had been a problem had been removed.”

Stop watching TV?

For a child who suffers from photosensitive epilepsy, so there is no a priori risk facing a cartoon. Of course the risk to zero would not turn on the television, which advises Jacqueline Beaussart, president Aispace (Acting, inform and educate the public to improve understanding of epilepsy): “You can not prevent a child watching television. This would put in a situation of exclusion vis-à-vis its peers that they have access. It should just be vigilant and follow a few rules of precautions such as minimum distance to the position and adequate lighting.”

Clearly it is easier to set up some rules rather than proscribe television, especially if they forbid him to watch Pokemon: parents are no match for Pikachu …