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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Obama's daughter sometimes finds him embarrassing: Like many 10-year-olds, Malia Obama sometimes finds her father to be embarrassing. She says she once she invited a friend over to her house, and her father shook her friend's hand to say hello. "You really don't shake kids' hands that much ... You just wave or say hi," she had told him. However, Malia is excited at the possibility of moving into the White House if her father wins the election. "I enjoy decorating so I get this whole new room to do whatever I want," Malia said.

Keeping a food diary doubles weight loss: A recent study by the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research has found that keeping a journal of what you eat everyday can help you lose more weight than spending excessive amounts of money on dieting programs and products. Dr. Patrick O'Neil, director of the Weight Management Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, says, "Most of us don't really know how much we eat and drink; we have very charitable memories." The study shows that by writing down every calorie that you take in, you are more aware of your eating habits and are more likely to make a healthy change to your lifestyle.

New ways to diagnose autism earlier: Scientists are now developing new technologies that may help identify children affected by autism as early as a few months old. "By providing very intensive early intervention, we can significantly reduce the symptoms of autism," says Geraldine Dawson, chief science officer of advocacy group Autism Speaks. "But there is huge variation in how children respond to early intervention." These technologies include encouraging children to express emotion and identify people's faces, as well as computerized eye movement censors.

Baby's first smile gives mom's brain a buzz Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a connection between a mother's reaction to her baby smiling and pleasure receptors, the same ones that respond to sex, food, and addiction. The study gave a deeper perspective to maternal responses to a babies' emotional cues. "It makes sense biologically," said Lane Strathearn, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor and Texas Children's Hospital, whose work is published in the latest issue of the journal Pediatrics. "It establishes that bond between parent and child."

More info: Malia Obama, Food Diaries, Autism, Baby's Smile

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If I kept a food diary I’d be worried about getting writers cramp.

- kari dean

Posted 07/08/08 09:19 PM

Aw, little Malia and Sasha are so cute!!

- Chris

Posted 07/08/08 10:58 PM

The Quote that obama’s daughter finds him embarrassing—-that’s kids. “Kids say the darnest things.” Why would you try to read into that. Small minds, small people. “Peanut brains?”. No wonder the country is on a downward slope. Catch it! —-Couldn’t help it!

- Cynthia

Posted 07/09/08 08:50 AM

How can they diagnosis autisum earlier, when most of the time the immunizations that cause so much of the autisum these days, aren’t all given at birth. They spread out putting all that nasty stuff into our kids for years, which means at anytime a problem might develop that wasn’t there before THAT particular immunization, that caused the problem, was given. Just because no reaction at the moment, doesn’t mean that they didn’t start a process in the body of making it unhealthy by interfering with the way G-d made our bodies to be self healing if not interfered with. I’m lucky, I never had to worry about those problems, my four adult children, Thank G-d, never had care from a medical doctor. They are extremely healthy adults.

- Patti

Posted 07/09/08 01:38 PM

My son was diagnosed with autism at 3 years old. But I knew that something was wrong when he was 12 months old. I knew that something was not right. I made sure that he was immunized on time. But that didn’t change the idea that he was diagnosed with the disorder, which as we parents of children with ASD is a 24 hour job. MY child started getting early intervention at the age of 2 because of his speech delay. So he has had early intervention ever since then. And it has worked a great deal and I am very proud of him. He’s in a classroom with other children with ASD, but he is doing great. His classmates are doing great, and they have a teacher who knows exactly how to teach them and she told me that she wants the best for her children as she calls them. I say to the parents of children with autism, please don’t give up on your children. Never give up on them. Want the best for them and they will do great. And lastly to Patti, children with autism are healthy children they just have a brain disorder which causes problems in coommunication and other things, but it can be some health issues with it but not all the time

- Dyshonda

Posted 07/10/08 11:59 AM