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Yet one more reason to blame your mom.
New research shows that if your mother suffered from a serious type of morning sickness (hyperemesis gravidarum), you have triple the risk for the same condition, according to a study published in The British Medical Journal.
Around 2% of women suffer excessive nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, a condition which can lead to hospitalization.
The study, which was conducted at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo, examined data on 2.3 million births — all births registered in Norway between 1967 and 2006. Continue reading »
What if your kid has the goods to be the next Michael Jordan or Roger Federer…would you want to know?
Remember the case a couple months back about a family that lost their kids because they were obese, as was one of their children? The British child protection authority can and does remove kids from their families if the authorities believe the parents are overfeeding them.
It turns out that an extremely rare genetic condtion may lead to severe obesity. Continue reading »
What with all the massively unsettling stuff going on in the world right now — recession, foreclosures, unemployment, and war, to name a few — it’s small wonder we’re not all running around with raging anxiety disorders. But there’s increasing evidence that true, debilitating anxiety, the kind that severely limits your life, is something that people are predisposed to, or not, from birth.
This fascinating, long article in the New York Times Magazine from yesterday describes how Harvard psychology professor Jerome Kagan followed subjects from babyhood through adulthood. He found that babies that were highly reactive to novelty — that is, that responded unhappily to new things — were much more likely to have anxiety disorder as teens and adults.
If that was your baby, though, don’t despair: Continue reading »
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