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Teen Tuesday

Kathleen Milazzo — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:19:19 +0000

As a reader you probably get very bored time to time with some of the posts and articles that you read. I can tell you that as a writer there are things we write that are just as boring. I am at such a point. I am tired of rewriting news articles about some aspects of health. We’re, most of us adults and as such deep down we know that it’s better for our bodies to eat a leafy green salad than a cheeseburger and fries.

Anyway I was thinking that mental health is just as important as healthy eating. I was also thinking about this school year just starting and some of the problems that kids and teens will be facing. I thought it might be both interesting and helpful to discuss school and teen related issues so I came up with Teen Tuesday. So as a test every Tuesday we will discuss teen and younger peoples problems and questions.

If it doesn’t work we’ll scrap it, if it does we will keep it.

It would be helpful for all of us readers and writers alike to have teens comment here to ask questions or bring out issues they’d like advice on. I can’t do this alone people so don’t be shy. No one needs your name or any personal information so feel free to write in and make this site somewhere for others to go for advice. Thank you!

New Concerns About BPA

Kathleen Milazzo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:27:53 +0000

BPA if you remember was in the news and up for a lot of debate about its safety in plastic baby bottles. A couple of states have banned it’s use in baby bottles for children under 4 years old and more states seem to be following.

Manufactures of baby bottles have decided to steer clear of it and are advertising this on their labels to ease moms minds so they will buy their products made of plastic.

Now the experts are saying that they see in mice that there is a connection between BPA and children’s asthma.

We’ve got a tot in our home who is still on the bottle at bedtime and we do not purchase bottles with that chemical in it. However, you should know that BPA is also used in the lining of some cans. So if you use any kind of canned foods in the home you could still be exposing your young children to this dangerous chemical.

I don’t know if there is anything completely safe with the packaging of our food but the best advice I could give is to read, keep up on the latest news, and do your own research.

Autism and Jenny McCarthy

Kathleen Milazzo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:59:59 +0000

I’ve heard Jenny McCarthy speak about her sons autism and her struggle to find any kind of treatment or help for him. Somehow she did and now she’s written three books and opened up a school across the street from her house.

Jenny seems like a down to earth mom struggling to find answers and treatment and is making great headway. She also seems to be convinced that her son developed autism from a vaccination he received as an infant. Who knows, she’s been right so far in my eyes. I saw her on a special and she seems to have come a long way in healing her son.

I wonder what she thinks about the medical community expanding the diagnosis of autism to include one in every hundred children. I think now maybe the drug companies or medical people are trying to say it’s from a bad gene to throw light off the real cause.

Tamiflu Almost Useless

Kathleen Milazzo — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:03:00 +0000

The Center for Disease Control has said that they recieved reports that eight more children have died of the flu, making the total now seventeen across the country. Some of the children, most over the age of twelve also had secondary infections which could have contributed to their deaths.

A surprise to me is that the CDC says, 98% of these flu strains that are killing children are resistant to Tamiflu, making it almost useless. These strains are not all from the same bacteria, as they come from different strains themselves. Get your flu shots today for your kids at least.

Cholesterol Drugs For Eight Year Olds?

Kathleen Milazzo — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:02:31 +0000

I’m sure there are cases where young children who are genetically predisposed to having high cholesterol, need the intervention of a statin, a cholesterol lowering drug. My own mother, while not a child has had a big problem with high cholesterol despite both my parents efforts to only buying and preparing low cholesterol and cholesterol lowering foods. The point is that I know sometimes eating right does not solve the problem in all cases.

Having said all that we come to the recent debate about young children and teens who follow such poor eating habits and inactivity that they have cholesterol readings that are so high their doctors are prescribing pills to lower it. It’s to this segment of our population that I speak to now. Young children don’t have jobs so where are they getting the money to buy fast food and junk food? How are they getting there? I assume they are not driving themselves. I doubt very much that they are doing the cooking and grocery shopping in the home as well. So who is responsible for their poor nutrition and eating habits and their inactivity? Could it be their parents?

It seems a real shame that a child has to take the same kind of drugs some elderly people take because they have parents who not only cannot set a good example but that can’t say no to treats being regular meals.

Is the attitude of the American people really “just take another pill”? If so we have a lot of parents that need some parenting themselves, before their children grow up to pay the price with their lives.