Child Health Articles

And children do need vegetables. According to most government authorities, children need to have around three or four servings per day, and it’s best if these servings include multiple types of vegetables.

Fortunately, many children tend to be resilient, but this is by no means always true. For example, one young child may respond to a death in the extended family as if it’s no big deal, while another may be deeply disturbed by the specter of death.

Obesity in children is rising in numbers. And it’s very likely that the era of television and computer games have greatly contributed to the increased generation of fat kids.

Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is characterized by an enduring pattern of uncooperative, disobedient, explosive angry outbursts, and hostile behavior towards authority figures for at least 6 months.

Up until the last decade or so, high cholesterol has been thought of primarily as an adult problem. Its negative effects tend to affect people over 40, and people who are younger rarely have to worry about it.

Asthma is a nasty illness that can affect not only the life of the child who has it, but everyone who lives with the child as well.

Here are some helpful tips and information that can go a long way to making sure that your child stays regular and lets you keep your sanity.

Headaches are commonly assumed to be the domain of stressed out adults, but with many children who are loaded with eight hours of schooling, homework and extra curricular activities, iPods, cell phones, portable video games, TVs, laptops, headaches are actually quite common-place amongst the under 18 set.

In order to gain the ideal amount of weight, doctors recommend that pregnant women consume about 300 extra calories a day—and those calories shouldn't ALWAYS be from cake and ice cream!

Many people have felt the need for a qualified caregiver at some point of time in our busy lives. Someone qualified and reliable would be an excellent solution to look after possibly a child, new mother or a patient, particularly when we are unable to take care of him or her personally.

After nine months of bearing the burden a mother gives birth to a wonderful new life. If this little baby has a problem known as colic, then the whole ordeal becomes even more painful than child birth. When a baby has colic it will burst out crying and will continue to cry for a couple of hours.

The best gift that nature can bring to your house is a new born baby. But if your baby has colic then this gift can cause some troublesome times for new parents. Colic babies often undergo extended periods of continues crying often up to three hours at a stretch.

This is our First article on Female pregnancy and there are plenty more in the line. We feels Pregnancy is a very important part of both male and female and though not completely related to health, we should cover it as much as possible.

Surprised ? but I think it is a good thing if kids also do Yoga though I am not a professional physician or have any authority on the subject but still I don't think there is anything in kids doing Yoga under some adults supervision.

We are now facing an obesity epidemic because the number of fat children has doubled in the last 20 years. Campaigners say that within a generation about 40% of the population will be fat.