obesity
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How to Reduce Your Family’s Screen Time (Now That It’s Totally Out of Control)
In a simpler, more innocent time, limiting screen time was cited by many parents as one of their major parenting concerns. In a 2019 Pew Research Centre poll, 71% of parents with a child under the age of 12 said they were concerned about the amount of time their kids spent in front of a…
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Your Smart Scale Probably Isn’t Accurate Enough to Be Useful
Your weight on the scale changes for so many reasons. We can gain or lose muscle, and we can gain or lose fat. We can be lighter when we’re dehydrated, or heavier because we ate a lot of salt last night and we’re retaining water. Wouldn’t it be great to tell the difference between all…
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How to Detox Kids From Their Screens
When the pandemic hit last year, the first thing many parents did was abandon any rules they had in place about screen time. It’s not because the pandemic made us lazy parents; it’s because so many of us suddenly needed to work in the same spaces where our children were learning, playing, and arguing with…
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Are You Walking Your Dog Enough?
Australia has nearly five million dogs, with nearly 40% of Australian households owning one. But it seems that 40% of Australian dogs are not walked enough and that a similar percentage of dogs are overweight or obese. With colleagues at the University of Sydney, we are interested in collecting more recent data on these trends.…