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‘Helicopter’ parents have neurotic kids
The study, which surveyed college freshman, is one of the first to try to describe precisely what helicopter parenting is, and measures it. The term was at first coined by college admissions workers when they started to notice a change in parents of prospective students - parents would call the admissions office and try to intervene in a process that had previously just been between the student and the college, said study examiner Neil Montgomery, a psychologist at Keene State College in N.H.
While the findings are only preliminary, and more studies are needed to back up the results, they propose this kind of over-parenting might lead to children who are ultimately not ready to leave the nest. Montgomery and his colleagues surveyed about 300 freshmen with a survey the researchers particularly designed to assess helicopter parenting. They focused was on college students, for the reason that college is a “crisis point” in the relationship between the helicopter parent and the child, Montgomery said. At this phase, the parents no longer have control over their child’s life and can’t keep track of them like in the past.
Meat, fish protein linked to women’s bowel disease
Eating lots of animal protein appears to amplify women’s risk of increasing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a new study from France.
Their effects may help better understand the role of diet in IBD risk, said Dr. Franck Carbonnel of the Center Hospitalier Universitaire de Bicetre in Paris and his group write in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. If established, they can lead to protective strategies, particularly in families at risk of IBD, and probably to recommend for preventing relapse.
Inflammatory bowel disease is a collective term for diseases characterized by severe inflammation in the digestive system such as ulcerative colitis, which characteristically only affects the colon, and Crohn’s disease, which can attack the entire digestive tract. IBD, which affects about one in 500 people, has become much more common since World War II, Carbonnel and his colleagues note. The reasons behind the increase are still uncertain.
To burn more fat, skip breakfast before workout
Running on empty may not be such a bad idea after all. Though many athletes eat before training, some scientists say that if you really want to get rid of more fat, you should skip the pre-workout snack.
Several researches propose exercising while your body is low on food may be a good way to trim excess fat. In a recent paper, European researchers found that cyclists who trained without eating burned considerably more fat than their counterparts who ate.
Recall raises questions about promotional glasses
A recall of 12 million cadmium-tainted “Shrek” drinking glasses sold by McDonald’s raises questions about the safety of millions of similar cheap promotional products that have been sitting in Americans’ kitchen cabinets for years.
Only glasses created for the latest “Shrek” movie are included in the voluntary recall mentioned Friday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, but they were made by a corporation that McDonald’s has worked with for 15 years. And many other corporations produce the same glassware with cartoon characters or other designs baked in. McDonald’s said the U.S.-made glasses met federal guidelines for cadmium under testing conducted by a CPSC-approved lab. CPSC spokesman Scott Wolfson, however, said the glasses fall short of standards for the toxic metal that the agency is in the process of developing.
Regular coffee consumption can reduce risk of prostate cancer
Leading up to the American Revolution in December 1773, the Boston Tea Party was the historical event that began to make over America into a coffee drinking nation. Today the U.S. is conscientious for more than a third of international coffee utilization at 400 million cups every day. Over the years, thousands of studies have been done examining coffee’s crash on health and, for the most part, their results are as pleasing as the aroma of that freshly brewed cup of java.