Childrens Health

Making healthy food and lifestyle choices easier for families - evidence from the European funded I Family Study research project

 
Professor Wolfgang Ahrens based in Germany and joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health, Health News & Family Channels. Ahrens is Project Co-ordinator of the European funded I Family research project into what drives food and lifestyle choice in European children and families and how those choices impact on lifelong health.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Wolfgang Ahrens discuss the following:
The I Family Study won funding from Europe in the face of strong competition. What was it about your proposal and your ambitions for the 5 year research project that secured that approval and the funding?
What is the I Family Study contributing to further our understanding of how European families and children in particular can be helped to live healthier lives? What’s new in terms of science and evidence that can help individuals help themselves?
What would be the one key, that the I Family Study and their message for families and particularly parents about how they can help their children invest in their life long health? Is it food choice or is it engaging in physical activity – where should parents place their efforts? How can we help ourselves and our families to combat obesity and other health issues?
What practical advice can I Family give to healthcare professionals across Europe as to how best they can support families? Where should they put their efforts? Are there interventions that work & can be relied on to provide that support?
Can families and healthcare professionals on their own deliver the change that’s needed to combat the global long-term trend towards sed-en-tary lives and weight gain? Isn’t there a need for Europe-wide and also national regulation to combat this trend?
Conclusion: At an individual level there is much that families – adults and children – can do to help themselves if they prioritise their lifelong health. But at a population level, to support particularly the most vulnerable/those with least advantages, as professionals we believe there has to be appropriate regulation and policies to help us all combat modern society and life which makes it too easy to eat and act less healthily than we should.
 
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ahrens is professor of epidemiological methods at the faculty of mathematics and computer science of the University of Bremen, Germany. He is Deputy Director of the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS in Bremen and head of the department Epidemiological Methods and Etiological Research. Having finished his biology studies in 1985 he worked as scientific assistant in numerous epidemiologic studies with focus on work- and environment-related cancer.
In the years 1995-1998 he established the working group Epidemiology at the Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Clinic Essen. After his PhD thesis on "Retrospective assessment of occupational exposure in epidemiological case- control studies" he established the cross sectional division Epidemiological Methods and Field Work at the BIPS. From 1998-2003 he was Head of the division.
In 2000 he qualified as professor for Epidemiology and Public Health. In 2003 he was offered a W3-professorship for Epidemiological Methods at Bremen University. A key focus of his research addresses the causes of lifestyle diseases as well as their primary prevention and the scientific evaluation of intervention measures. Further research interests lie in the area of the aetiology of cancer with focus on environmental factors and occupational exposures and the use of secondary data for epidemiological research. He initiated the largest Europe-wide intervention study on overweight, obesity and other disorders in children conditioned by nutrition, lifestyle and social factors (www.idefics.eu; 2006-2012) and is currently coordinating the subsequent prospective cohort study on lifestyle, diet and exercise in children, adolescents and their parents - the I.Family study (www.ifamilystudy.eu; 2012-2017).
Furthermore, he is a Member of the Board of Directors, chair of the Northwest cluster and PI of the study centre Bremen of the German National Cohort (GNC). The German National Cohort is a joint interdisciplinary endeavour of scientists from the Helmholtz and the Leibniz Association, universities, and other research institutes. Its aim is to investigate the causes for the development of major chronic diseases, i.e. cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, neurodegenerative/-psychiatric diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, respiratory and infectious diseases, and their pre-clinical stages or functional health impairments. (www.nako.de).
 
Website: www.ifamilystudy.eu
Social Media Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IFamilyStudy Twitter: @IFamilyStudy

INOCULATED - A Story of Darkness and Hope

Kent Heckenlively, a science teacher, attorney, and author, who wants the world to know about the CDC whistle-blower, Dr. William Thompson and it's all in is new book, INOCULATED: How Science Lost its Soul in Autism joins eHealth Radio and the Health News Channel.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Kent Heckenlively discuss the following:
Tell us why you decided to write this book.
Why is INOCULATED such an important book?
In your subtitle you use the phrase – “How Science Lost its Soul in Autism” – please explain what you mean?
You share some startling revelations in the first three chapters, can you talk about some of them?
What first brought this subject to your attention?
 
Kent Heckenlively is a science teacher, an attorney, and a founding contributing editor of Age of Autism.  During his undergrad years at St. Mary’s College, Heckenlively worked for U.S. Senator Pete Wilson and was the school’s Rhodes Scholar candidate.  In law school at Golden Gate University, he was a writer and editor of the school’s law review, spending his summers working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco.In the summer of 2010 and 2011, Heckenlively attended the Teacher Research Academy at Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratories, spending eight weeks in a virus lab investigating the expression of micro-RNAs in a monkey model of Ebola infection.  Kent is also a member of the Compass group, a consortium of autism parents, leading scientists, and philanthropists in Silicon Valley looking for answers to neuro-immune diseases.Heckenlively served on the Executive Council of the San Ramon Valley Education Association for several years and was the Health and Safety Committee Chairman for the teacher’s union, representing more than 1,600 educators, therapists, and psychologists.In the fight against chronic diseases, Kent finds great wisdom in the strategy used by Nelson Mandela in South Africa.  Mandela believed change could only come about when one engaged in satyagraha, a Buddhist concept which insists on speaking the absolute truth, while at the same time practicing ahimsa, a commitment not to harm those who might be your adversaries.
In November of 2014, Heckenlively published PLAGUE: One Scientist’s Intrepid Search for the Truth About Human Retroviruses, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Autism, and Other Diseases, with Dr. Judy Mikovits, a 20-year government scientist and former head of the Lab of Anti-Viral Drug Mechanisms at the National Cancer Institute.  The book quickly became one of the best-selling virus books of the last 30 years and has garnered extensive praise from the patient community and leading physicians.His new book, INOCULATED: How Science Lost its Soul in Autism is even more explosive, detailing allegations by a senior CDC scientist of how the agency has covered up a link between vaccines and autism.  The allegations of Dr. William Thompson are now under investigation by Congressman Jason Chaffetz's office and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.Kent and his wife Linda live in Northern California with their two children, Jacqueline and Ben.Fun fact:  Kent played football for De La Salle High School whose Spartans had a 151-game winning streak from 1992 to 2003, a record unequaled by any American sport.  This accomplishment is depicted in the 2014 film, When the Game Stands Tall, starring Jim Cazaviel and Laura Dern.  Kent firmly believes that even though all this success happened after he stopped playing football for De La Salle it was “just a coincidence” and not a reflection of his athletic skills.
 
 
Website: www.inoculated.org

The surprising reason this generation of children is not expected to live as long as it’s parents

Dr. Mylaine Riobe, a Board-Certified Medical Doctor and specialist in traditional Chinese medicine and Integrative medicine of the Riobe Institute of Integrative Medicine in Stuart, Florida joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health & Health News Channel. Dr. Riobe is here to discuss the surprising reason this generation of children is not expected to live as long as it’s parents.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Mylaine Riobe discuss the following:We’ve made so much progress in life expectancy, so why are our children’s life expectancies not expected to be as long as ours?What can we do to help reverse this dire news about the current generation of children?What do you think are the main reasons for the decrease in life expectancy of this generation of children?Why are Americans experiencing more diseases despite spending so much on healthcare?From reports, why is cancer expected to rise to 42% of the population over the next few years?
Duration: 21:59
Did you know that for the first time in 200 years, our children are not expected to live as long as we do?
The reason for this is that our American medical system is based on the prevention of death rather than prevention of disease. 50% of Americans have life- shortening diseases by age 18.
Did you know that rates of cancer are expected to rise 42% by 2025? We spend more than the entire continent of Europe on cancer care and have over 700,000 more deaths per year than they do! Almost every American is touched by the epidemic of cancer.
The reason for this is that our American medical system is based on the prevention of death from cancer rather than prevention of cancer.
Dr. Riobe proves why early diagnosis of diseases such as cancer to prevent death is no longer acceptable. With over 15 years of experience, Dr. Riobe has developed a ground-breaking integrative fusion technique that provides a dynamic approach that is effective, safe and prevents and treats diseases including cancer, by addressing their root causes.
Dr. Riobe's undergraduate studies were completed at Columbia University/Columbia College in NYC where she grew up. She obtained her medical degree at NY Medical College and completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Medical College of Pennsylvania and the University of South Carolina. There she learned conventional medical practices that she used for four years following her graduation and board certification in OB/GYN. During this time, she grew frustrated with the cookie-cutter medicine that she learned. Although this form of medicine serves its purpose for acute, life-threatening conditions, she felt that her patients who suffered from chronic conditions such as fatigue, poor sleep, low sex drive, and overweight were often frustrated and incompletely treated.
Her close relationship with her grandmother, who introduced her to holistic healing methods as a child, planted her passion to treat her clients as a whole.
She set out to learn methods that evaluate and treat root causes rather than mask symptoms. This calling led her to study traditional Chinese medicine and integrative medicine over the following 8 years. She completed her studies at The Academy of Pain Research, a University of California, Irvine-affiliated institution; The University of Miami, and The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
She incorporates these disciplines into her practice to provide an integrative, customized approach combining leading-edge modern medical testing and technology with time-tested energy-based methods of traditional Chinese medicine.
In her upcoming books, The Tao of Integrative Medicine and The Answer to Cancer, she makes sense out to the chaos that is our current health crisis and sets a path to prevention of diseases such as cancer as practiced at The Riobe Institute. The Riobe Methods also provides effective treatment of chronic symptoms and conditions after they take hold.
She enjoys practicing what she preaches by living an active life of healthy eating, balanced lifestyle and exercise. As a woman and a mom, she knows first hand how we can all be consumed by a hectic lifestyle. That’s when it’s more important than ever to get on the path to prevention by obtaining your Annual Integrative Check-up.
For more information visit MylaineRiobeMD.com to pre-order your copies of The Tao of Integrative Medicine and The Answer to Cancer.

Website: MylaineRiobeMD.com
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RiobeInstitute
Twitter: @RiobeIM
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Keeping kids active and why soccer is a great choice

Dean Butler, Coaching Manager at Ginger Sport joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health and Health News Channels, who is here with us to talk about why soccer is such a great sport for little kids. Ginger Sport provides fun soccer sessions to thousands of kids every week across Queensland, Australia.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dean Butler discuss the following:Choosing an activity for your kids can be overwhelming. Why do you think soccer is such a great sport for little ones to start out with?Physical fitness is an obvious benefit, but can you tell us a little more about the effects of sport on the emotional wellbeing of our kids?Some sports are traditionally thought of as boys only or girls only. What is it, do you think, that makes soccer so great for both boys and girls?What do you think is the most rewarding thing about coaching little kids? We’ve all heard the saying, you shouldn’t work with children and animals! But what’s the funniest or most embarrassing thing a child has said or done at a session?Finally, have you got any tips for our listeners on how to keep kids enthusiastic about sports?
Duration: 6:49
Ginger Sport is a kids’ soccer business based in Queensland, Australia. We are passionate about improving the physical and emotional wellbeing of children, via our unique brand of fun and energetic soccer for kids.
We believe that sport is for every child and every ability. We provide soccer sessions that encourage children to participate, have fun, and above all let their abilities shine. We want all children to experience the feeling of inclusion you get from playing in a team and working together towards a common goal.
Established in 2009, thousands of children play soccer with Ginger Sport each and every week.

Website: www.gingersport.com.au
Social Media Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gingersport
Twitter: @ginger_sport
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Shining the light on siblings of critically ill children

Actress Danni Tamburro joins eHealth Radio and the Charity, Children's Health and Health News Channels to discuss her charity work with  “Shine on Siblings”, a unique program designed by EAMF, which shines the light on siblings of critically ill children.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Danni Tamburro discuss the following:What inspired you to volunteer with Shine on Siblings?Can you tell us a little about the foundation?How important is it to shine the spotlight on siblings of children with life-threatening diseases?It’s the New Year and time to give back by volunteering in 2016. How do people find out more about volunteering with Shine on Siblings?You’ve been in film, TV and theatre from a very young age. What’s next for you in 2016? How was it working alongside Tom Arnold? And who would you like to work with next? What advice do you give to other child actors?
Duration: 8:55
Danni Tamburro is a lively young actress who has just completed her first movie, playing the daughter of an abusive Tom Arnold in the independent film, “1 Interrogation”, for release in 2016.
Danni is no newcomer to show business as she has been appearing in TV commercials since she was a year old! With several small parts in TV and some theatre under her belt, 19 year old Danni is ready to make a name for herself in TV and film.
In her spare time Danni volunteers at Children’s Hospital working with the siblings of terminally ill children in a program called “Shine on Siblings”. Danni is also a first class equestrian and is devoted to her puppy!

Website: www.EAMF.org
Show Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danni.tamburro
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/DanniShea
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DanniShea

Goodkid Foods, a brand of healthy, delicious, and low sugar snack bars for kids

Ashleigh Mitchell, mother of two and Founder of Goodkid Foods, a brand of healthy, delicious, and low sugar snack bars for kids joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health and Nutrition Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Ashleigh Mitchell discuss the following: Tell us more about what inspired you to found Goodkid Foods?Tell us about your healthy, gluten-free Goodkid snack bars. How do they compare to other leading brands?With more than one third of all American children and adolescents suffering from obesity many parents are looking for healthy snack alternatives, how is Goodkid supporting this demand?Where can listeners learn more about Goodkid and its delicious, healthy snack bars for kids? Where can they find purchase them in stores both retail and online? 
Duration: 8:21
Ashleigh is an entrepreneur and mother who started making healthy Goodkid bars in her own kitchen to fill a need in her own family—for a portable yet healthy snack that made kids and parents happy. She quickly realized she wasn’t the only parent in need and founded Goodkid Foods to bring healthy, delicious snacks to Goodkids everywhere.

Website: www.goodkidfoods.com

BÉABA, promoting the healthiest eating habits in children

BÉABA is known worldwide for its unique ability to create innovative products for the juvenile industry with a focus on design and technology. To promote the healthiest eating habits in children, BÉABA has designed a range of cooking and feeding products with a full collection of complementary accessories. Brand Manager Tara Ciccone joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health and Nutrition Channels to tell us more about how BEABA assists with healthy eating.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Tara Ciccone discuss the following: Remind our listeners what products the Beaba line includes as it applies to healthy eating?When using your products how long do most of the recipes take to make?What are the benefits of steam cooking? For healthier eating, what are some recipes you recommend and where can I find some of these recipes? What are some healthy foods you recommend for baby? I understand that the Beaba products can also be used to make smoothies for adults? Is this true, and what type of quick smoothies can you make using the Babycook Pro? At what age should you first introduce these products to your child?What do you tell those parents who say they may not have time to make their own baby food?
Duration: 7:05
Tara Ciccone serves as the Brand Manager at Beaba USA - a company that develops products for smart parents of infants, including the Babycook which was the first baby food machine to hit the marketplace over 25 years ago.
Tara's experience includes juvenile products as well as fashion and her focus in her career has been on developing and managing interested marketing relationships across multiple channels.
Tara has a passion for charitable outreach that helps children and spends much of her time educating others on how making small smart choices in food can vrede a huge lifelong impact.

Website: www.beabausa.com

One Father’s Quest to Broaden His Sons’ Eating Habits

Matt Davis, the Co-Founder of MixedPears, a company that makes products that help you nurture children by embracing their natural curiosity, and designer of BiteSizers portable food scissors joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health and Nutrition Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Matt Davis discuss the following:What are BiteSizers?What inspired you to create them?How do you feel BiteSizers can impact a child’s appreciation for food and any developmental skills, and how do they make parents’ lives easier?What sets BiteSizers apart from other food scissors?Any new products on the horizon for Mixed Pears?
Duration: 13:16
Matt Davis has children’s products in his blood.  Growing up in a suburb of Buffalo, New York, he was always around kids products as his father worked in research for Fisher-Price.  His own career in product design and marketing took him to Taiwan where he now resides with his wife and two small sons.  It was a result of living abroad that Matt observed children eating exactly what adults eat and inspired him to design an easy way for parents to feed their children.

Website: www.mixedpears.com

WeeZee-The Science of Play with Louise Weadock

Louise Weadock MPH, RN, the Founder of WeeZee-The Science of Play, an 18,000 square foot play and learning facility located at 480 Bedford Road in Chappaqua, New York joins eHealth radio and the Health Care and Children Health Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Louise Weadock discuss the following: You are the founder and president of three health-related companies – Access Nursing & Healthcare Services, WeeZee-The Science of Play and Access Sensory Kids.  Can you give me a brief description about each one?What impact do you hope to make on health care and where do you hope to make a difference? Much of your business focuses on therapies. Can you tell us some of the more popular therapies for adults and children?How much of your focus is on children with special needs at WeeZee?  How do you work with children who have Sensory Processing Disorders?How can "optimal Sensory Processing" help our children? What about those aging with Dementia or Alzheimers?
Duration: 17:11
Louise Weadock MPH, RN, is the founder of WeeZee-The Science of Play, an 18,000 square foot play and learning facility located at 480 Bedford Road in Chappaqua, NY and Access Healthcare Services, offering a complete range of clinically and culturally diverse healthcare services and professional staffing personnel for the past 30 years.  In addition, Ms. Weadock recently launched  Access Sensory Kids (ASK) -- a personalized clinical program for children that provides occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech and language therapy to children with autism, sensory processing disorders, developmental delays, ADD and ADHD, eating and swallowing disorders, and many other conditions.
A registered Child Psychiatric Nurse, a 30 year ASD/SID researcher at Johns Hopkins University and the mother of two grown children (one who was diagnosed with autism at age 2), Louise is a known parenting/sensory stimulation expert and has recently written articles on Special Needs Friendships, The Science of Play, Prenatal Sensory Stimulation and Sensory Integration Disorders for a variety of parenting publications.

Website: www.weezeeworld.com

BEABA assists with healthy eating

BÉABA Brand Manager Tara Ciccone joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health and Nutrition Channels. BEABA has created well designed products that help families live a healthier lifestyle.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Tara Ciccone discuss the following: Explain to our listeners what products the Beaba line includes as it applies to healthy eating?For those parents who may have fussy eaters, can you give them some tips on how the Beaba Babycook might help them enjoy mealtime?What is the difference between Beaba Babycook and Beaba Babycook Pro and how do these products make your baby’s food healthier?Where can I find some of your healthy recipes and for those that might not be big cooks, how hard is it to make some of these recipes?What are some healthy foods you recommend?At what age should you first introduce these products to your child?Beaba talks a lot about ‘varied meals’. What is a varied meal?
Duration: 12:05
Tara Ciccone serves as the Brand Manager at Beaba USA - a company that develops products for smart parents of infants, including the Babycook which was the first baby food machine to hit the marketplace over 25 years ago.
Tara's experience includes juvenile products as well as fashion and her focus in her career has been on developing and managing interested marketing relationships across multiple channels. Tara has a passion for charitable outreach that helps children and spends much of her time educating others on how making small smart choices in food can vrede a huge lifelong impact.

Website: www.beabausa.com