Sentences with phrase «childhood research as»

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As you may know, many of your teammates have shaved their heads, and eyebrows, in support of the St. Baldrick Foundation, a volunteer - driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.

Second, regulation needs to limit the opportunities for food advertising to influence children's food preferences, as this is the role that the research has identified for food advertising in contributing to childhood obesity.

As brain research continues to show, childhood is a time of tremendous neural growth.

The research provides some of the most conclusive evidence to date of fathers» importance to children's outcomes and reinforces the idea that early childhood programs such as Head Start should focus on the whole family, including mother and father alike.

Tough summarizes key research, such as the Adverse Childhood Experience Study, a project of the Centers for Disease Control and Kaiser Permanente, which revealed a stunning correlation between traumatic childhood events and negative adult Childhood Experience Study, a project of the Centers for Disease Control and Kaiser Permanente, which revealed a stunning correlation between traumatic childhood events and negative adult childhood events and negative adult outcomes.

In my reading and personal research on early childhood development, I have discovered a wealth of activities that are easy - to - do and beneficial to your preschool children's development as well as information and resources that will build your confidence and make you a more knowledgeable parent or teacher.

Now a concerned parent can find in one source all of the prevailing scientific research arguing against the use of food as a reward, a chart showing every leading medical organization which has condemned the practice, generally useful statistics on childhood obesity and even some colorful quotes from experts.

Alan Smoufe, Professor of Child Psychology in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota writes in March / April 2011 Psychotherapy Networker, «Another important implication of attachment research is that it's possible to develop a secure state of mind as an adult, even in the face of a difficult childhood.

Putting aside the implications of this research for adults, this study indicates to me that we must redouble our efforts as a society to prevent childhood obesity before it can take root.

The organization's website provides free downloadable research reports on such topics as the economic benefits of high - quality early childhood programs and the impact of the recession on employers.

Kay has worked as a private practice lactation consultant, a hospital lactation consultant, the lactation consultant for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, for The Center for Childhood Obesity Research at The Pennsylvania State University, and for the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

She also serves as the Clinical Director of the Mental Health Interventions and Technology (MINT) program where she has clinical expertise and research interests in cognitive - behavioral treatment of childhood anxiety and disruptive behavior disorders, with a focus on preschool mental health.

As of 2016, Mississippi Building Blocks worked with 29 centers across the state, and over 500 early childhood programs in 31 counties have benefitted from free equipment, a research - based curriculum,...

As we learn more about the mechanisms for these impacts, both direct and indirect, research will demonstrate the most effective approach to link home visiting services and early childhood education and child care programs to more fully realize positive outcomes.

Dr. Alan Lucas, MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Center of London, found that 8 - year - olds who were fed formula rather than breast fed as infants, had less developed bone mineralization than those fed breast milk.

«Solid food introduction from 4 months of age, including a wide range of healthy foods and potential food allergens such as eggs, peanuts, and fish, is our current best advice,» says Debbie Palmer, head of the Childhood Allergy and Immunology Research team at the University of Western Australia, who has published extensively on the topic.

Additionally, the effects to the child can be long - term even during their childhood as they may have behavioral issues although the research about this is not conclusive.

I haven't yet researched it, but my sense is that this waste is only growing in quantity as school districts move from what many of us remember from childhood — on site cafeteria cooking with reusable trays and real silverware — to food prepared off - site and packaged for reheating.

This approach is based on research from music education, early childhood development, and family relationships, as well as our 20 years experience in the field.

Consistent with current research, SMA believes that Selective Mutism is best understood as a childhood social communication anxiety disorder.

However, research has also consistently shown that people can overcome poor attachment in childhood to develop healthy romantic relationships as adults.

There is no pressure to finish off a jar of baby food, and early research is showing baby - led weaning may result in less childhood obesity as the child learns to self - regulate — that is, once he's full, he stops eating.

The letter states: «The bill, as it stands, imposes a barrier to one of the most potent tools for research into the most severe childhood diseases.

Members of Ulster Hose No. 5 are raising money and awareness for childhood cancer research as part of the second Ulster County St. Baldrick's Day fundraising event.

Previous research has connected adverse childhood experiences to problems such as cancer, heart disease and mental illness in older people, but no one had looked at whether those stressful experiences are linked to health problems in adolescents.

But new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown that multiple adverse experiences in early childhood are linked to depression and physical health problems in kids as young as 9 to 15.

Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.

People who were bullied by siblings during childhood are up to three times more likely to develop psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia in early adulthood, according to new research by the University of Warwick.

So on the basis of some earlier, shakier research, along with a good dose of common sense, Bailey and Zucker hypothesized that homosexuals would show an inverted pattern of sex - typed childhood behaviors — little boys preferring girls as playmates and becoming infatuated with their mother's makeup kit; little girls strangely enamored of field hockey or professional wrestling — that sort of thing.

In addition, the seven - year URECA results confirm previous research linking development of childhood asthma to recognized risk factors such as prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke and maternal stress and depression.

Establishing links between genes, the brain and human behavior is a central issue in cognitive neuroscience research, but studying how genes influence cognitive abilities and behavior as the brain develops from childhood to adulthood has proven difficult.

The second challenge to researching viral therapies for childhood cancers is the fact that mouse cells don't get infected with human viruses as easily as human cells.

That's according to new Michigan State University research linking childhood participation in arts and crafts activities to patents generated and businesses launched as adults.

Dossey's company, which will produce about 25,000 pounds of cricket powder this year, has received research grants for several projects related to using insects as food, including how it can alleviate childhood malnutrition.

«We hope that as the research progresses, doctors and dentists can apply the findings in caring for cleft lip or palate patients and protect their teeth starting in early childhood and into adulthood,» Cox said.

It is particularly hard to untangle factors such as childhood poverty, abuse and neglect, which also make their mark on brain anatomy and which correlate with more substance abuse, notes Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and lead author of a superb 2016 review of cannabis research in JAMA Psychiatry.

Findings from this UK cohort are confirmed by evidence for adult - onset ADHD world - wide: a study from Brazil will be published by JAMA Psychiatry alongside this research, which also identified a large proportion of adults with ADHD as not having the disorder in childhood.

As for me, I enjoy the fact that I can combine my scientific training with my English skills, and I'm happy that, even though I chose not to carry on with astronomy research, I'm still involved in some small way with a subject that has fascinated me since childhood.

New research findings have important implications for our understanding of ADHD, as ADHD that onsets in adulthood could have different causes to childhood ADHD.

The statement is based on a review of existing scientific research published in peer - reviewed medical journals that documents a strong association between adverse experiences in childhood and teen years and a greater likelihood of developing risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes earlier than those not experiencing adverse experiences.

It may be true that a child's zombielike stare at the TV set is a sign of focus, as he writes, but the positive implication inherent in this statement pales in the face of a large amount of research that links young children's excessive television viewing with attention, learning and social problems during childhood and teen years.

There's growing concern among researchers that public wariness about the newborn screening program will create a backlash — with parents declining to screen their kids (who may end up much sicker because their disease wasn't caught early), and with the spots no longer made available for valuable pediatrics research, such as tracing the origins of childhood leukemia.

Additionally, he says, recent research has found high levels of unemployment and underemployment as well as poorer work productivity among adults who had childhood ADHD than among those who did not.

Researchers at the Childhood Obesity Research Center at USC are looking at how maternal food intake affects fructose levels in breast milk as well as how specific elements in breast milk can alter a baby's developing gut bacteria, which neutralizes toxic byproducts of digestion.

Exposing infants and children to higher amounts of sugar during growth and development can produce problems with cognitive development and learning as well as create lifelong risk for obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease and heart disease, said Goran, founding director of the Childhood Obesity Research Center at the Keck School of Medicine.

The research provides some of the most conclusive evidence to date of fathers» importance to children's outcomes and reinforces the idea that early childhood programs such as Head Start should focus on the whole family, including mother and father alike.

«What we've seen for so many years is research looking at physical activity as the preventative or the curative solution for childhood obesity, but the data on physical activity as a means to set children's weight is abysmal,» he says.

«This research highlights the potential role of individual differences in verbal abilities during childhood as a risk factor for the subsequent development of alcohol use during adolescence and young adulthood,» said Michael Windle, professor and chair of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Proton beam therapy — a more precise form of radiotherapy — to treat the childhood brain cancer medulloblastoma appears to be as safe as conventional radiotherapy with similar survival rates, according to new research published in The Lancet Oncology journal.

In early childhood education, as in other domains, scientific research seeks to inform public policy.