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From obesity to allergies, outdoor play is the best medicine for children
What if there was a simple, inexpensive and fun way to address some of the major challenges facing humanity today. What if it could...
Gum disease in pregnancy poses a risk to newborns
Women who develop severe mouth infections and suffer from bleeding gums when they are pregnant have a greater chance of delivering their babies preterm...
Insomnia in pregnancy: How to sleep better
Many pregnant women find themselves waking up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom (for the third time) or struggling...
How music therapy improves the health of premature babies, & boosts parental bonding
Singing and playing music to your baby or young child may seem to be a no-brainer. We all have strong associations with nursery rhymes...
How much kids need to move, play & sleep in their early years
As parents, we want to encourage children to be physically active, get enough sleep, and keep their screen time at healthy levels. But did...
Feeding and weaning … why does everyone have an opinion?
With a chuckle, an old school friend of mine confessed that when he was a teenager he would try to destroy his best mate’s...
Had gestational diabetes? Here are ways to help lower your future risk of type...
Gestational diabetes is a specific type of diabetes that occurs in pregnancy.
Once you’ve had gestational diabetes, your risk of having it again in your...
Taking medicine while breastfeeding? Here’s what you need to know
The challenges many new mothers overcome to breastfeed their babies are well documented. Despite a public health system in the UK that promotes breastfeeding,...
Dyscalculia: ‘Maths dyslexia’ or why so many children struggle with numbers
You’ve probably heard of dyslexia, but have you heard of dyscalculia before? Maybe not, given that children with dyscalculia – or mathematical learning difficulties...
Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we...
In a popular BuzzFeed article, Anne Helen Petersen describes how millennials (people born between 1981 and 1996) became “the burnout generation”. She describes some...
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