Kids’ eating habits: YouTube plays major role!
Many parents are adamant that their kids’ eating habits are influenced by social media and it would seem that they’re right! Scientists from the University of Liverpool carried out tests in which children were shown pictures of YouTube stars promoting healthy and unhealthy foods. When offered snacks afterwards, those who had watched the promotion of unhealthy foods ate 26 per cent more calories than those who watched online stars promoting healthy foods!
New children’s hospital unveiled
A new children’s hospital will open in 2022 on the site of St James’ Hospital in Dublin 8. Pictured at the recent unveiling of the completed design images of the new hospital are: Care Minister, Simon Harris TD; Eilísh Hardiman, CEO, Children’s Hospital Group; John Pollock, Project Director, National Paediatric Hospital Development Board; and Sinéad Fleming, aged ten from Clondalkin in County Dublin, and twelve-year-old Loclainn Harris and eight- year-old Annalise Harris, from Drogheda, County Meath.
Sixty per cent of babies not
breastfed in the first hour of life An estimated 78 million babies – or three in five – are not breastfed within the first hour of life, putting them at higher risk of death and disease and making them less likely to continue breastfeeding UNICEF and World Health Organization have said in a new report. The report notes that newborns, who breastfeed in the first hour of life, are significantly more likely to survive. Even a delay of a few hours after birth could pose life-threatening consequences. Breastfeeding rates within the first hour after birth are
highest in Eastern and Southern Africa (65 per cent) and lowest in East Asia and the Pacific (32 per cent), the report says. Nearly nine in ten babies born in Burundi, Sri Lanka and Vanuatu are breastfed within the first hour, while, by contrast, only two in ten babies born in Azerbaijan, Chad and Montenegro do so.
Autism is not linked to eating fish in pregnancy
A major study examining the fish-eating habits of pregnant women has found that they are not linked to autism or autistic traits in their children. Scientists at the University of Bristol looked at the assumption that mercury exposure during pregnancy is a major cause of autism using evidence from nearly 4,500 women, who took part in the Children of the 90s study. Using analysis of blood samples, researchers found no links between levels of
mercury in the mothers and autism or autistic traits in their children. The only adverse effect of mercury found was poor social cognition if mothers ate no fish at all, especially for girls. ‘Our findings further endorse the safety of eating fish during pregnancy,’ said
lead author and founder of the Children of the 90s study, Professor Jean Golding. ‘Importantly we’ve found no evidence at all to support claims that mercury is involved in the development of autism or autistic traits. This adds to a body of work that endorses the eating of fish during pregnancy for a good nutritional start to life with at least two fish meals a week.’
HSE launches new hepatitis C online resource
Hepatitis C is often referred to as a ‘silent disease’ since symptoms can take several years to develop, leaving sufferers unaware that they are affected. In Ireland, it is estimated that around 20,000-30,000 people are living with hepatitis C, with three out of five undiagnosed. Hepatitis C became a notifiable disease in 2004 and, by the end of 2017, 14,704 cases had been notified to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre. To mark this year’s World Hepatitis Day, the HSE has launched a new patient-focused online resource for information on hepatitis C -
www.hse.ie/hepc.
Major rise in HPV vaccine uptake
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has confirmed that the uptake rate for the HPV vaccine has risen to 65 per cent: a fifteen per cent increase in over a year. This means that two in every three Irish girls is now protected against cervical cancer. With school vaccination teams now administering the vaccine to first-year girls, the latest phase of the HSE vaccine information campaign is already underway. ‘Prevention is better than cure, and this is especially true of cervical cancer,’ said Minister for Health, Simon Harris TD. ‘We are lucky to have a vaccine that can potentially prevent 70 per cent of cervical cancers, and I am very pleased to say that our increased provisional uptake figures last year have been internationally recognised.’
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