Category: Health & Well-being
Getting children to eat their greens? Both parents need to set an example
A positive example set by both the mother and the father promotes the consumption of.
Love matters: How parents’ love shapes children’s lives
Parents often put their own relationship on the back burner to concentrate on their children,.
Sitting still linked to increased risk of depression in adolescents
Young people who are inactive for large proportions of the day throughout adolescence face a greater risk of depression by age 18
Short, intensive training improves children’s health
Short periods of intensive training motivates them to exercise, researchers claim.
Children’s mental health is effected by sleep duration
Important associations identified between sleep duration in children, brain structure, and cognitive and mental health measures.
Brain networks come ‘online’ during adolescence to prepare teenagers for adult life
How different regions of the brain ‘talk’ to each other – changes in two main ways during adolescence.
Study shows why women have to be likeable, and men don’t
For women, likeability is an asset in all interactions. For men, likeability matters only in interactions with the opposite sex.
New tool assesses risk of depression in adolescence
Researchers develop tool that can help identify which young people will go on to experience a major depressive disorder when they reach 18 years.
Study shows teenage girls far more likely to self-harm
Girls shown as the new ‘high-risk’ group – sexism and poverty are linked to poor mental health and wellbeing among 14-year-old girls
Majority of adolescents worldwide are not sufficiently physically active, putting their current and future health at risk
Globally, in 2016, 81% of 11- to 17-year-old school students did not reach WHO recommendations to do an hour of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity every day