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Whole fat or low-fat milk better for kids? Science says it’s udderly up to them

Whole fat or low-fat milk better for kids Science says its udderly up to them - لبنیات مناسب تر برای کودکان کم چرب یا پرچرب

A world-first study shows kids over two years of age can drink whichever they prefer, with no effect on their health.

The research, published by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition today, suggests current public health advice recommending children over the age of two consume low fat dairy products may need to be revised.

ECU’s Associate Professor Therese O’Sullivan led the investigation into the consumption of full-fat dairy products in children as part of the Milky Way study.

Over a three-month period, 49 healthy children aged four to six were randomly allocated to receive either whole fat or low-fat dairy products in place of their normal dairy intake.

Dairy products were home delivered every fortnight in plain packaging at no cost to the participants, to ensure purchase price wasn’t a factor.

Neither group knew whether they were consuming whole fat or low-fat dairy, while any left over products were weighed each fortnight to assess the children’s overall intake.

Release date: 12 October 2021
Source: Edith Cowan University

Covering faces around kids won’t mask emotions

Covering faces around kids wont mask emotions - کودکان از پشت ماسک هم می توانند احساسات دیگران را تشخیص دهند

The researchers showed more than 80 children, ages 7 to 13, photos of faces displaying sadness, anger or fear that were unobstructed, covered by a surgical mask, or wearing sunglasses. The kids were asked to assign an emotion to each face from a list of six labels. The faces were revealed slowly, with scrambled pixels of the original image falling into their proper place over 14 stages to better simulate the way real-world interactions may require piecing things together from odd angles or fleeting glimpses.

The kids were correct about the uncovered faces as often as 66 percent of the time, well above the odds (about 17 percent) of guessing one correct emotion from the six options. With a mask in the way, they correctly identified sadness about 28 percent of the time, anger 27 percent of the time, and fear 18 percent of the time.

Published results in the journal PLOS ONE.

Release date: 23 December 2020
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Kids Rarely Transmit Covid-19

Kids Rarely Transmit Covid-19 - کودکان به ندرت کرونا را به دیگران منتقل می کنند

Kids Rarely Transmit Covid-19, Say UVM Docs in Top Journal
Schools Can Reopen in Fall, They Say, If Safety Guidelines Are Observed and Community Transmission Is Low.

A commentary published in the journal Pediatrics, the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, concludes that children infrequently transmit Covid-19 to each other or to adults and that many schools, provided they follow appropriate social distancing guidelines and take into account rates of transmission in their community, can and should reopen in the fall.

Release date: 10 July 2020

Source: University of Vermont