If you’ve already been to the pumpkin patch, then it’s time to get ideas for carving that pumpkin. Here is a video that should get you started!
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Is Your First Born Squinting?
Be careful with your first born children. They are more likely to be short-sighted than their younger siblings. Scientists at Cardiff University, analyzing health records from 89,000 British people aged 40-69 have found that first borns were 10% more likely to suffer from short-sightedness. They were also 20% more likely to suffer from severe myopia.
Why are these statistics true? The researchers believe that parents tend to spend more time overseeing their first child’s education, and that they give younger children more freedom to play outside and less time staring at books.
Dr. Jeremy Guggenheim of the Cardiff School of Optometry and Visual Sciences said, “Children with an earlier birth order do relatively better at school owing to parents investing more time, effort and/or resources in educating children with an earlier birth order.”
He continued, “Greater educational exposure in earlier-born children may expose them to a more myopiagenic environment; for example, more time doing near work and less time spent outdoors. Our findings that statistical adjustment for indices of educational exposure partially attenuated the magnitude of the association between birth order and myopia, and completely removed the evidence for a dose-response relationship, therefore support the idea that reduced parental investment in children’s education for offspring of later birth order contributed to the observed birth order vs myopia association.”
Interestingly, others have been doing similar studies. In China, where 80% of teenagers are short-sighted, authorities have been looking into creating transparent classrooms so that children get more natural light. Researchers have found that even an extra 40 minutes a day in sunshine will improve eyesight.
Lost Bear Reunited with Four Year Old Owner
Heartwarming stories are always worth telling, and retelling. A little girl, Phoebe Steel, left her stuffed bear at the Toronto Pearson International Airport. The family lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Realizing that the bear wasn’t on their flight, the mom alerted the airport which began a search for the bear. They found it in lost and found and posted the journey home for the bear on Facebook. First they showed the bear waiting in a filing cabinet in Toronto and then going through security. They showed it on a moving walkway going towards its flight and then at duty free trying on a Toronto Blue Jays jersey. The staff flew the bear back to Phoebe along with another toy from the airport.
The staff added “Ra Ra had fun at Toronto Pearson, but was happy to head home to his family. Goodbye, Ra Ra!”
As Mrs. Steel remarked, “When we got him back she was overjoyed and so excited. She has been quite attached to him and has not let him out of her sight. The airport went above and beyond to get Ra Ra back – they have been amazing and so generous. They made a little girl so happy and are such kind people. I could never express how grateful I am to them.”
See the pictures and enjoy this feel-good story!
Great DIY Halloween Costume Ideas
Halloween is almost here and that means that you need costume ideas! Don’t wait until the last second to think about this. Your costume might need some time and energy invested in it to make it great, and now is the time to get started. Here are some great do it yourself ideas that don’t take too much time or money – but that will help you to really enjoy the holiday!
New Product for Acid Reflux
For people with terrible heartburn – a solution may actually be available. A bracelet-like device has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2012 to help gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD).
The new device, called the LINX device, is a magnetic bead that has to be implanted around a muscle at the bottom of the esophagus.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have now concluded that LINX should be considered as a first-line treatment for acid reflex.
As Dr Robert Ganz, chief of gastroenterology at Abbott Northwestern Hospital and associate professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, said: ‘This study demonstrates the LINX procedure provides significant and durable improvement in heartburn, regurgitation, PPI independence and quality of life. Patients can now have a relatively simple procedure to restore their sphincter function and avoid the invasiveness required in fundoplication procedures. In my view, LINX represents the next generation of anti-reflux treatment.”
Is Your Plate Keeping You Fat?
You know that diet that you’re always about to start? How about if we told you that you really don’t have to diet – you simply have to change your portion size and a few eating habits. This is the latest finding from Cambridge academics. Their 387 page report showed the most conclusive evidence to date that we simply eat too much food – we eat what we are given even if we don’t need that much.
Here are some tips for portion control:
- Reduce the size of the plate or bowl that you have in front of you. This can reduce food intake by 159 calories a day according to the scientists.
- Drink one to two glasses of water before starting each meal.
- Eat a salad before you eat other items at your meal to signal to your brain that you’re full.
- Use smaller tableware as well and this will mean that you put less food into your mouth as you eat.
These tips certainly can’t hurt, and they just might set you on your way towards a smaller pants size in your future!