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Hello to all!
Welcome to our April newsletter and we hope that everyone has a great Easter weekend. The office will closed April 14th (Good Friday) and Saturday April 15th. The office reopens on Tuesday April 18th with regular office hours.
Until next time we wish health and happiness to all,
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Antibiotics in the First Year of Life Increase Risk of Asthma
From a March 13, 2006, Reuters Health release comes a report that children who are given antibiotics early in life increase their chance of asthma later. This finding is from a study by Dr. Carlo A. Marra and colleagues at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver published in the medical journal Chest. The study also suggests that the more antibiotics were used on a child, the higher the risk of asthma.
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"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
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Lack of Sleep Ups Obesity Risk in Kids
Recent studies have shown that the number of overweight children between the ages of 6 and 11 in the United States has doubled in the past 20 years. At the same time, research has shown that an increasing number of children and adolescents are suffering from sleep deprivation. Are the two events related? A study published in the International Journal of Obesity suggests so.
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Pets and Dirt Good for Child's Immune System
A feature story in the March 19, 2006 issue of USA TODAY reported that exposure to pets, peanuts and intestinal worms might actually be good for children, because they program their developing immune system to know the difference between real threats and common exposures.
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Vitamin D, the 'sunshine vitamin,' may lower risk of breast cancer: studies
WASHINGTON (AP) - Women who get lots of vitamin D are less likely to develop breast cancer, suggests a pair of studies that add to the already strong evidence that the "sunshine vitamin" helps prevent many types of cancer.
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