Kids who don’t exercise and watch too much television are at higher risk for type 2 diabetes and vascular disease. This breaking news comes from Finland, home of the best educated children on earth. Apparently even high math scores can’t protect kids from overindulging on both screen time and snack …
Author and Activist Elizabeth Smart talking to Savannah Guthrie. Credit: Stuart Ramson, United Nations Foundation This past Wednesday I took some time off for social good, in other words, advocating for mothers and children. I attended the second annual Moms +SocialGood, a gathering of women (and some men) who strive to …
American kids are in pretty bad shape to a recent UNICEF report. Charles Blow reported on the report in a recent op-ed in the New York Times. Consider this another entry in the How Bad Off contest over kid’s health and well-being. The doom and gloom? The UNICEF report out last week ranks U.S. kids nearly dead …