You might not be as overweight as you think! It has been the standard measure of weight and health for years. But now some experts are worried that using the Body Mass Index is not a fat lot of good…
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Teens Increasingly Worried About Their Weight
FRIDAY, Nov. 20, 2020 — More adolescents than ever are worried about their weight and are dieting, according to a study published online Nov. 16 in JAMA Pediatrics. Francesca Solmi, Ph.D., from University College London, and colleagues assessed changes in…
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COVID-19 plus measles? Kids aren’t getting their vaccines, and doctors are worried
COVID-19 has infected some of Dr. Sonder Crane’s youngest patients—the newborn who tested positive because its mother had the coronavirus, the 14-month old who caught it at day care. Now, on top of that, she and other pediatricians across the…
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