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Death By Lethal Vaccine Injection

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on May 24, 2006
Health Warnings
Children's Health Issues
Healthy Pregnancy

Preface

Having a son of our own, it was crushing to read the following story about a mother and father losing their precious baby. I greatly respect and appreciate the courage that it must have taken for Christine Colebeck to share her experience with others. Thank you, Christine, for sharing Laura's story with us.

- Ben Kim

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Skin-To-Skin Contact Is Healthy For Mothers And Their Babies

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Dec 15, 2005
Children's Health Issues
Healthy Pregnancy

One of the reasons why my wife and I decided to have a home birth was to ensure that our baby would go straight where he belonged as soon as he entered the world: to my wife's chest. It saddens me to know that providing newborn babies with immediate physical contact with their mothers is not always given the priority it deserves in today's health care system. Read more

 

Breastfeeding: Best for Baby and Mother

Posted by Margaret Kim on Dec 02, 2005
Children's Health Issues
Healthy Pregnancy

One of the most powerful ways of giving your baby a healthy start in life is by breastfeeding. The following are a few of the numerous physical and mental benefits of breastfeeding: Read more

 

Junk Food Still Clear And Present In Our Schools

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Sep 08, 2005
Children's Health Issues

Just ran across an article on Yahoo News that provides some sad statistics on junk food in our schools.

The U.S. General Accountability Office reported yesterday that 9 out of 10 U.S. schools offer junk food like candy bars and soda to students that directly compete against school lunches. Read more

 

Love & Kindness As Primary "Treatments" For Depression In Children

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Sep 07, 2005
Children's Health Issues

To me, there are few health conditions that are more sad than depression, particularly depression among children and teenagers.

A recent study out of the University of Sweden indicates that depression among children and teenagers is strongly linked to the following psychosocial factors:

1. Being shamed and humiliated.
2. Being obese.
3. Having separated parents or unemployed parents Read more

 

How Children Should Wear Their Backpacks

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Sep 05, 2005
Children's Health Issues

With tomorrow being the first day of school for many children around the world, I just wanted to remind all of you parents out there to have your children develop the habit of wearing their backpacks evenly over both shoulders.

This habit will help to prevent the development of a spinal curve from the uneven distribution of weight caused by slinging a backpack over just one shoulder. Young children in particular are susceptible to developing permanent curves because their growing spines are quite malleable. Read more

 

Beware of Lead in Children's Lunch Boxes

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Sep 03, 2005
Health Warnings
Children's Health Issues

The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) in Oakland, California filed a lawsuit on August 31, 2005 against manufacturers and retailers of soft vinyl lunch boxes that can potentially expose children to dangerous levels of lead.

The amount of lead found in soft vinyl lunch boxes is not enough to cause acute lead poisoning, but is enough to contribute to health problems now and in the future, the most common of which are: Read more

 

How to Keep Your Children Safe In and Around Cars

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Jul 05, 2005
Children's Health Issues

Did you know that even on relatively cool days, the temperature inside a parked car can get hot enough to cause heatstroke? A recent study by researchers at Stanford Medical School found that the temperature inside of a parked car with the windows rolled up can rise an average of 40 degrees Fahrenheit within an hour. 80 percent of of this increase occurs within the first half hour. Read more

 

Improving School Lunches For Children

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Jun 12, 2005
Healthy Eating Resources
Children's Health Issues

Here in Canada, a cable channel called The Food Network just began showing a television series out of the United Kingdom, called Jamie's School Dinners. The two episodes that I have watched have been positively brilliant.

This television series follows celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, as he visits schools around the country with a mission to change the way that the government and parents are feeding their kids. It was both shocking and sad to see Jamie ask a group of elementary students to identify various vegetables, only to have asparagus mistaken for onion and celery mistaken for potato. I thought that I was the only kid to have soda and chocolate bars for lunch. Read more

 

Choosing Baby Names Tool

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on May 20, 2005
Children's Health Issues

Margaret recently showed me a super cool website that allows you to see how popular different baby names have been over the past several decades. This tool is intended for expectant parents who are racking their melons trying to come up with a name worthy of their future child's destiny. But hey, I think everyone can have fun with it. Read more

 

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