Kids and Vegetables
I don’t know what life in your family was like when you were growing up, but in my house our parents did not allow us to leave the dinner table until our plates were cleaned. I quickly developed an eating…
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Smoking, Vaping, and Mental Fog
Have you ever experienced a mental fog? Signs of mental fog include issues with memory, attention, concentration, decision-making, and other cognitive functions. New research reports that people who smoke and vape are those most likely to report struggling with mental…
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Teen Choices and Heart Disease
Because we live in a fallen and broken world where the effects of sin touch everything everywhere, we know that time and gravity are not kind to the human body. We experience the effects of aging, disease, and decay, with…
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Smartphones and Childhood Obesity
When we first started monitoring youth culture here at CPYU, smartphones did not exist. Kids who spent time in front of a screen did so with televisions. It was long before there were connections being made between time spent watching…
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Kids, Screens, and Declining Eyesight
As we continue to come out of the difficult months of the pandemic, researchers are learning more and more about the fallout of Covid-19. An international team of researchers from the United States and China have found that the rates…
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