When should I start food diversification for my infant? Baby is already 4 months old and never ceases to impress you with his progress and growth. Nourished exclusively milk until now, breastmilk or infant formula (1st age milk), he must now venture gradually into new flavors and new contributions. According to European recommendationsthe food diversification … Read more
After 6 months, is milk still a priority? Your baby is getting older, and is even gaining confidence in his diet: between 4 and 6 months, you have discussed with him food diversificationallowing him to taste all kinds of food, to awaken his tastes and respond to their nutritional needs. However, from 7 months, this … Read more
Five days of work a week, that may seem like a long time. What if four days were enough? In the United Kingdom, around fifty companies are preparing to test a new work organization: from June 2022, their employees will work four days (instead of five), no pay cutfor a period of six months. This … Read more
Healthy mouth, healthy baby ? For years, scientists have explored the link between poor oral health and giving birth too early. In particular, it is increasingly confirmed that there is a link between the presence of gum disease and a risk of premature delivery. A study from Texas Children’s and Baylor College of Medicine reported … Read more
“It seems unreal.” On Monday February 7, Canadian snowboarder Maxence Parrot won the gold medal in slopestyle snowboarding at the Beijing Olympics. A special victory for the 27-year-old, four years after winning silver in Pyeongchang, South Korea. In 2019, the athlete discovered that he had a Hodgkin’s lymphoma (or Hodgkin’s disease), a rare cancer that … Read more
The lockdown went through there. While many parents were discovering telework and schools were closed, many families have resorted to a major ally to occupy the little ones at certain times of the day: television. According to an IPSOS, Observatory of Parenthood and Digital Education and Unaf study, the time spent by children in front … Read more
Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, as many natural disasters falling without warning all over the world. If these events upset everything in their path, they would also leave indelible traces on the bodies of the victims. Indeed, according to a recent study, these disasters would have accelerated the aging process of the immune system of monkeys (source … Read more
It has been observed that some of the patients with COVID-19 develop prolonged neurological-like symptoms including memory problems, related to the inflammation caused by the infection. A study by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons may help explain their occurrence in people with “long COVID”. Published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The … Read more
Health risks for uncertain benefits. This is the warning of the European Cardiovascular Association concerning the food supplements aimed at athletes. In an article published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, it warns that nutritional supplements taken to improve sports performance can pose risks to the heart, regardless of the discipline. The organization therefore … Read more
Health risks for uncertain benefits. This is the warning of the European Cardiovascular Association concerning the food supplements aimed at athletes. In an article published in theEuropean Journal of Preventive Cardiology, it warns that nutritional supplements taken to improve sports performance can pose risks to the heart, regardless of the discipline. The organization therefore recommends … Read more