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Date: Jul 24, 2009
| Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Vitamin D is essential to good health: It helps build strong bones and teeth, prevents diabetes, and helps fight off infectious diseases.
This useful guide provides simple tips to encourage your child to be physically active, develop eating habits, and observe healthful behaviors. Read on and get your family to eat right and move more.
Traveling abroad? Make sure to schedule an appointment at the travel clinic for at least eight weeks before the date of your trip abroad. This handout tells you what documents you should bring and what questions you should ask.
Your child may feel self-conscious about his or her appearance. She may be teased by classmates, which can lower the youngster's self-esteem. Being overweight can also have serious physical consequences. Overweight children are far more likely to develop diabetes, heart disease, liver disease, and orthopedic and other health problems.
The child's health records, prescription medications and extra pair of prescription glasses are just a few of the items that are recommended to be included in your medical kit as you travel with a child to a developing country. Read on to see other items that are recommended.
Your child may feel self-conscious about his or her appearance. She may be teased by classmates, which can lower the youngster's self-esteem. Being overweight can also have serious physical consequences. Overweight children are far more likely to develop diabetes, heart disease, liver disease, and orthopedic and other health problems.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an infection that causes liver disease. It is spread through contact with the blood of an infected person—by sharing needles or razors, for example. Hepatitis C is not spread by sneezing, hugging, coughing, food or water, or by sharing eating utensils or drinking glasses.
Picky eating is common in young chi ld ren. It usually improves as the child grows older, and it is not usually cause for concern with regard to the child ’s growth , health, or development. The following approaches may help decrease the behavior.
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