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Title: Health Tip: Alcohol Can Affect Your Athletic Performance
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Created: 3/26/2013 8:35:00 AM
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Could my child outgrow dyslexia or is it permanent?
Posted June 03, 2013, 2:00 am 
My first-grader was just diagnosed with dyslexia. Can you tell me more about it? Will my daughter outgrow it, or will she always struggle with it?
Dyslexia is a learning disability caused by a problem in the way the brain processes information. But we are only beginning to understand what the problem is.
Dyslexia makes it difficult to:
identify wordsrecognize the sounds that make up wordsunderstand and remember what is readtranslate printed words into spoken wordsspellorganize or sequence thoughtsrhyme wordslearn the alphabet and numbers during preschool and kindergarten.A person with dyslexia tends to reverse or misread letters or words. He or she might confuse the letter “b” for “d,” or read the number “6? as “9.” The word “was” may be read as “saw.” Or the order of words in a sentence may get switched around. Because of these difficulties, a person with dyslexia usually reads slowly and hesitantly.
Many young children reverse letters and numbers or misread words as a normal part of learning to read. Children with dyslexia, however, continue to do so after their peers have stopped, usually by first or second grade. It is really important to recognize dyslexia early, before the third grade. Treatments started early are more effective.
Dyslexia is not a vision problem; the eyes do not see words incorrectly. It is also not a problem of intelligence; many people with dyslexia have average or above-average intelligence. Many are extremely successful in life. Many are exceptionally articulate when speaking, but have trouble writing.
Children and adults with dyslexia have no trouble understanding things that are spoken. They are just as curious and imaginative as others. They can understand new concepts as easily, so long as the concepts are described by the spoken word and visual information. They can figure out puzzles as well as others — so long as the puzzles don’t involve written words.
Dyslexia is a lifelong condition that cannot be cured. But children with this disorder can learn ways to succeed in school.
Several techniques and strategies can help. Many are based on the observation that although people with dyslexia have trouble understanding words they read, they usually can understand words that are read aloud by another person. As a result, listening to books on tape rather than reading them, and taping lectures rather than writing notes, can be effective strategies. Computer software that checks spelling and grammar is another useful tool.
With support, most children with dyslexia adjust to their learning disability. And with early and appropriate treatment, many people with dyslexia go on to succeed in school and in their careers.
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What does NET means?
In order to lose weight, do you have to let the Net be negative? Is it a good or bad thing?
Im a little bit confused here. Does negative means ur losing weight?
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What Constitutes a Binge?
I'm asking this question for a friend of mine who doesn't have a CC. We were talking about eating disorders and the question came up of what a binge exactly is.
My book's answer was that it was a much larger amount of food than that normally consumed in a discrete time frame, such as a few hours.
I explained this, but my friend asked, for example, if someone ate 1,500 total between 6AM and 7PM, then ate the same amount from 7PM to 9PM, would that be binging? The friend explained that the question came from the classic example they got for an answer was "a binge is more like 3,000 calories in 3 hours."
I said yes, I think that counts, but I'd ask more people to make sure.
So . . . Any answers much appreciated.
Charlotte Debacker, Student
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frozen yogurt
Hey guys! I have a recipe to share ! I've been craving for ice cream but you know, ice CREAM. Hahaha ;)
4 cups of plain yogurt (low fat or non fat) 1-2 cups of fruits (your choice) *i used mango * my favorite !
1. Strain out the liquid from the yogurt as much as possible by using cheese cloth in the fridge for few hours. 2. Blend it up with fruits. 3. Freeze it and stir every 1 hour for 3 times. DONE! Amazingly delicious :)
Good luck guys :)
Sarah Maasbach, Creative Consultant
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Really good video on losing weight the right way
Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.
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Genes and Early Wheezing Tied to Childhood Asthma Risk
Common cold symptom increased odds for asthma in study
By Robert Preidt
HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, March 27 (HealthDay News) -- Certain genetic factors and wheezing early in life are associated with a greatly increased risk of asthma in children, a new study says.
Researchers examined data from nearly 500 children and found that about 90 percent of those who had two copies of a common genetic variation and who also experienced wheezing when they had a cold early in life developed asthma by age 6.
These children, all from families with a history of asthma or allergies, were nearly four times more likely to develop asthma than those who did not have the genetic variation and did not wheeze, according the study in the March 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The genetic variation is found on chromosome 17 and is common. Half of the children in the study had one copy and 25 percent had two copies. The researchers also noted that colds are extremely common and affect nearly all infants.
The increased risk is associated with wheezing during colds caused by a human rhinovirus infection, the University of Chicago Medical Center researchers said.
"We found that the interaction between this specific wheezing illness and a gene or genes on a region of chromosome 17 determines childhood asthma risk," study author Carole Ober, a professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, said in a medical center news release. "The combination of genetic predisposition and the child's response to this infection has a huge effect."
The researchers said it is not clear how this gene variation and wheezing interact to increase the risk of developing asthma. It also should be noted that the research showed only an association between them, and not a cause-and-effect relationship.
About 25 percent of children who had no wheezing from a human rhinovirus infection developed asthma, and 40 percent of those who experienced wheezing in the first three years of life but lacked the risk-related gene variants developed asthma.
That rose to nearly 60 percent among those with one copy of the gene variant and to 90 percent for those with two copies.
Non teenage first time ED advice *possibly triggering?*
Hello. This is my first post here, though I've been looking up posts on this forum for a while.
Essentially, I feel I could do with a little support/advice from anyone who's been in a position they feel is similar. Also, from anyone who has recovered further than I have.
I'm currently 26 years old. I am 5'5 . I have a lifelong history of depression. For the first time at the age of 24, and a weight of roughly 10st 5lbs (145lbs, and I now believe this to be my 'set-point'), I began to seriously restrict my eating, and began to lose weight. The rate of loss seemed to be exponential, and by christmas of that year (6 months into restriction), people were telling me I looked 'better'. I was probably around 9st 4lbs at that point. I was still having periods, but generally lacked energy, due to over-restriction.
By my 25th birthday in the spring, I had lost roughly another 10lbs. I had also been on the mini pill for a month. My periods had been irregular for about 3 months, and dwindled for a couple more months, then stopped. This did not deter me from losing weight. I assumed it was entirely down to the birth control (which I was only on for a month - I had to stop due to the hormones affecting my state of mind) and so kept on restricting. At this point I was walking several miles each day, obsessively, and playing sport twice a week, for an hour or two at a time.
Around July, I recognised that something was wrong with my mental state, and at around 8st, sought help. This took several attempts, as three different doctors were astoundingly dismissive as I was not YET in the high risk weight range, and am quite bulky in appearance. The one doctor who took me seriously referred me for therapy (though I didn't get access to this until around christmas just gone).
By November, I had dropped to around 7st, and just before christmas, dropped to about 6st 12lbs. I had made a couple of fairly pathetic attempts at recovery, but clearly this was not yet happening.
To cut the rest short. I began therapy around christmas time, and now, 6 months later, have gained up to around 9st. I still have no period. I still struggle a great deal, and restrict a little on some days. I'm having a lot of trouble adjusting to my body the way it is now. I've been at or around my current weight for about 2 months.
If anyone has any experience of people who have developed eating disorders for the first time this late in life, and then if anyone has recovered menstruation subsequently.
Thank you, and sorry about the length of the post.
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