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Food items that helps to fight anemia

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Anemia is basically a deficiency disease which is caused when there are not enough red blood cells or when there is a lack of hemoglobin in the body. Hemoglobin is basically responsible for transportation of oxygen to the entire body and red blood cells transport nutrients and minerals to the entire body along with oxygen. When there is deficiency of red blood cells or hemoglobin it means that the body doesn't get enough nutrition that might cause and create a lot of health related problems. These days children do not eat healthy food, they rather like eating Pizzas, burgers, sandwiches, biscuits, cookies, cakes, spicy food, high sugar content and high cholesterol food all these foods consist of high sugar and fat level that might even cause obesity, type 2 diabetes, depression and other diseases in children. Since, the lack of nutrition causes anemia it also causes iron deficiency along with it.  Hemoglobin atom consists of four iron molecules and if there is deficiency in hem...

How does Attention Deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects children?

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About 1.5% of children aged between 5 and 15 will be correctly diagnosed with ADHD.  It is more common in boys. In children with learning disabilities the rates go up to 20% and in cases of autism spectrum disorder the rates of ADHD can be found in about a 3 rd of them. The child suffering tends to exhibit listening difficulties and show extremely high impulsive behavior. A child will be very easily distracted, daydreaming, forgetting and losing things very frequently. Children with ADHD are overactive, frequently fidgety and restless, leave their seat constantly in the classroom without permission or talk excessively. The child suffering tends to find it difficult to resist their impulses. They make control or interrupt conversations and blurt out answers before the question is complete. Some may be prone to risk taking behavior, doing things without taking time to think about whether it’s safe, displaying little or no sense of danger. Children with ADHD will have tantrums, disru...

Conditions that causes type 2 diabetes in children

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Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease that causes a lot of health related problems in children. Children that do not have any control in eating and constantly eating fried foods, high cholesterol foods and high sugar content rich food.  Apart from bad eating habits, genetic disorders or the history of having family disease or having type 2 diabetes are few of the reasons for having type 2 diabetes among the children. Type 2 diabetes affects the child's body to process the sugar or the glucose in the body. This disorder causes buildup of sugar in the bloodstream that might lead to several long-term consequences if not treated properly. Though this type of disease was more common in adults, due to obesity, bad eating habits in sedentary and inactive lifestyles, children have been more susceptible to type 2 diabetes in the past decade. There are a lot of things that one can use in order to help children that suffer from type 2 Diabetes. The primary thing is one can encourage childr...