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Joining the dots between teenage infections and Multiple Sclerosis 

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Christine Garrington

Please note this is an updated version of an earlier post: More than 2.3 million people around the world have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and the large majority of those are over the age of 20.  MS is not contagious but some inherited genetic characteristics influence risk of developing the disease.  There is…

Multiple sclerosis: evidence of causes

Posted on May 17, 2021May 17, 2021 by Christine Garrington

More than 2.3 million people around the world have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and the large majority of those are over the age of 20.  MS is not contagious but some inherited genetic characteristics influence risk of developing the disease.  There is evidence that things going on in people’s lives and bodies when…

Breaking the cycle – how active travel to school could help tackle childhood obesity and inequality

Posted on January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 by Christine Garrington

There are a host of reasons, many of them highly publicised in recent years, as to why we should encourage young people to be more physically active. Now a team of London researchers has shown how the time spent travelling to and from school  is important in helping children, particularly those from more disadvantaged backgrounds,…

Do sexual minority teenagers have greater health risks?

Posted on January 20, 2020January 20, 2020 by Christine Garrington

People who identify as gay or bisexual have long been known to be more likely than others to be at risk from behaviour which can affect their health, such as drug-taking, drinking and not doing enough exercise. But how does this affect today’s teenagers? In an era of greater social liberalism might these differences be…

Might population-wide increases in physical activity reduce socio-economic inequalities in the proportion of children who are overweight?

Posted on October 8, 2019May 30, 2022 by Christine Garrington

Just half of children in the UK achieve the World Health Organisation’s targets for daily activity, and in England the Government has set its own strategy to tackle this. But would increased physical activity lead to fewer children being overweight or obese? And would it help to address social inequalities in the proportion of children…

Off the scales: time to act on childhood obesity

Posted on December 7, 2017December 7, 2017 by Christine Garrington

By 2050, it is said that obesity could cost the NHS almost £10 billion a year, with the full economic cost rising from around £27 billion today to £50 billion by then. Today, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) publishes its report, Off the scales: time to act on childhood obesity. It calls on the…

An equal start: longitudinal evidence to support children’s healthy development

Posted on November 7, 2017November 7, 2017 by Christine Garrington

Using longitudinal evidence to support children’s healthy development and give them an equal start in life is the subject of our editor Yvonne Kelly’s keynote address at the Growing up in Ireland Annual Conference in Dublin today. Her talk discusses findings from the most recent of the British ‘birth ‘ cohort studies – the Millennium…

Don’t let the kids get jet-lag: why regular bedtimes are key to a happy healthy childhood

Posted on October 10, 2017October 10, 2017 by Christine Garrington

The very best of sleep medicine and research is being presented at the World Sleep Congress in Prague this week. Among that research are findings from work by Child of our Time Editor, Professor Yvonne Kelly and colleagues at the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies. They have been trying to find out what it…

Screen use at seven: overweight at 11. Why it’s time to say no to a TV in the bedroom for children

Posted on June 2, 2017October 6, 2017 by Christine Garrington

Since the launch of the Childhood Obesity Strategy in 2016, there has been much attention focused on the so-called ‘Sugar Tax’. The March 2017 Budget saw confirmation that sugary soft drinks would be taxed in an attempt to combat rising levels of obesity. This is an important move that has been met with widespread approval…

Tackling the childhood obesity epidemic: Can regular bedtimes help?

Posted on April 25, 2017October 11, 2017 by Christine Garrington

Nearly one in five 10 and 11-year-olds in England is obese, according to NHS figures. With childhood obesity posing not just a nationwide, but a worldwide health threat, public health researchers around the globe are striving to establish which aspects of a young child’s life might set them on a path to being obese later…

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