In extremely poor American families, teens go hungry more often than younger children, a new study finds.
Parents will first forgo food themselves to feed their kids. But if there still isn’t enough food for everyone, younger children take priority over teens, the research showed.
“If you’re really poor, you try to sacrifice yourself first, but when you’re forced to make some choices, these parents are deciding to let the teens not have enough,” said lead author Robert Moffitt.
There has been a sharp rise in the number of American seniors who take three or more medications that affect their brains, a new study reveals.
The study looked at seniors’ use of opioid painkillers, antidepressants, tranquilizers and antipsychotic drugs. A review of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data showed that the use of these drugs in people over 65 more than doubled from 2004 to 2013.
There’s preliminary evidence that adequate amounts of vitamin D might help lower rates of respiratory infections.
These infections include colds, bronchitis and pneumonia, the researchers said.
In a review of past trials of people taking vitamin D supplements, researchers from Queen Mary University in London found that supplementation was linked to a 12 percent reduction in the proportion of people having an “acute respiratory infection.”
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