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"Like it or not, we are slightly fat, furless, bipedal primates who crave sugar, salt, fat, and starch," he writes, "but we are still adapted to eating a diverse diet of fibrous fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, tubers, and lean meat.We enjoy rest and relaxation, but our bodies are still those of endurance athletes evolved to walk many miles a day, often run, as well as dig, climb, and carry."

Since solid objects have fixed characteristics, it's relatively easy for a toddler to figure out what makes a cup, ball or chair. [...]children sitting in highchairs did learn better in the study

[...]traveling babies as young as 6 months can get an early measles vaccine to keep them safe

Some of the strategies and insights gained from this body of research are already visible in most children's hospitals: a place for parents to sleep, even in the intensive care unit; including parents in so-called family-centered rounds; a staff attuned to interpret a parent's extreme behavior as a cry for help, rather than a source of irritation and extra work

"Temperament is the largely inborn set of behaviors that are the style with which a person functions, not to be confused with their motivation or their developmental status and abilities," said Dr. William B. Carey, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the author of "Understanding Your Child's Temperament." The authors questioned whether the debate about the "medicalization" of shyness might be obscuring the detection of the distinct signs of social phobia

The tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis booster, given to adolescents and adults, protects against whooping cough, another relatively common infection among college students. [...]despite an excellent safety record, just half of eligible adolescent girls are immunized and many fewer boys receive this vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CML was a disease without a treatment, a slow-growing cancer of the white blood cells that could lurk for a long time in a person's bone marrow and eventually develop into a "blast crisis," in which abnormal white blood cells proliferate, wiping out the bone marrow and eventually killing the patient

Dr. Heidi Blume, a pediatric neurologist at Seattle Children's Hospital, invoked a "SMART" mnemonic for helping children deal with their headaches. S is for sleep, she said, and getting enough of it. M is for not skipping meals, including breakfast and drinking enough to be properly hydrated. A is for activity, because either too much or too little can lead to headaches, and R is for relaxation. T is for triggers to avoid, from cigarette smoke to particular foods to traveling in the car. Dr. Stephen Ashwal, chief of pediatric neurology at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, sees many adolescents with chronic daily headaches. Some have ended up on multiple medications. "I think massage therapy or acupunture can be very helpful," he said. "I don't think it's a good idea for kids to be on more than one or maybe two medications." "Many many kids will outgrow their bad headaches," said Dr. Daniel Bonthius, professor of pediatrics and neurology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. "Exactly why they got the headaches and exactly why they go away, modern medicine doesn't really understand."

A study published this month in the journal Pediatrics looked at a huge group of children who each saw a doctor at least twice with headaches but had no head injury or trauma. Dr. Heidi Blume, a pediatric neurologist at Seattle Children's Hospital and lead author of the study, invoked a "SMART" mnemonic for helping children deal with their recurrent headaches