A Study Reveals The Impact Of Childhood TV Habits On Adult Blood Pressure
Conclusion
In sum, monitoring and managing screen time is not just about today’s habits but a long-term investment in a child’s future health, particularly their blood pressure levels. The data linking childhood TV viewing to adult health problems like high blood pressure underscores the urgency of this matter.
However, understanding is just the first step. From here, we must translate this knowledge into action – through parental control, societal initiatives, healthier dietary habits, and increased physical activity. But we must also remember that screen time isn’t all bad – the conten...
Source: The EMT Spot - July 25, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Health Care, Disagree Better
BY KIM BELLARD
On one of the Sunday morning news programs Governors Spence Cox (UT) and Jared Polis (CO) promoted the National Governors Association initiative Disagree Better. The initiative urges that we practice more civility in our increasingly civilized political discourse. It’s hard to argue the point (although one can question why NGA thinks two almost indistinguishable, middle-aged white men should be the faces of the effort), but I found myself thinking, hmm, we really need to do that in healthcare too.
No one seems happy with the U.S. healthcare system, and no one seems to have any real ideas about...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Health insurance Healthcare Access Healthcare system Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Taxpayer Funding for Religious Schools?
This article appeared onSubstack on June 13, 2023The state of Oklahoma hasrecently approved a charter for the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, whose curriculum will include religious teaching. Taxpayers will fund the school, so a battle will ensue over whether such funding is desirable or constitutional.Economic reasoning suggests three possible justifications for government support of education.First, one person ’s education might benefit society more broadly. Economic productivity might be higher, for example, if everyone has mastered “the three Rs.” Some individuals, however, might ignore this ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron Source Type: blogs
Racial Myopia in Family Law
Jessica Dixon Weaver (Southern Methodist University), Racial Myopia in [Family] Law, S.M.U. Sch. of L. Legal Stud. Working Paper No. 598 (2023): Racial Myopia in [Family] Law presents a critique of Family Law for the One-Hundred-Year Life, an Article that... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 2, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
From Debt Ceiling Crisis to Debt Crisis
Romina BocciaThe U.S. government teeters on the brink of defaulting on its payment obligations over the next few weeks as the debt limit threatens to bind in early June. There ’s been extensivecoverage about the potential for catastrophic impacts on the economy if Congress and the President do not raise the debt ceiling. What ’s missing from the debate is serious consideration of the potentially catastrophic longer‐term scenario the United States could face if spending and debt continue growing unabated.Current debt limit discussions are indicative of the myopia that characterizes the federal budget process. A d...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 22, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia Source Type: blogs
Continue Work on Stablecoin Legislation or Risk Forfeiting the Financial Future
Jack SoloweyThe United States has long led global finance. Its institutions shaped critical financial infrastructure and saw the dollar become the world ’s reserve currency—thanks torule of law, property rights, and an innovative market economy at home. As the economic landscape evolves,maintaining this position is a matter of adapting to new technologies that couldcomplement the U.S. dollar and enhance global financial plumbing. Yet, in a fit of myopia, U.S. regulators seem bent on stifling the very developments thatcould help extend America ’s historic strengths, looking askance at recent attempts to inte...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 20, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jack Solowey Source Type: blogs
Consistency Quotes: 80 Powerful Sayings About the Most Underrated Success Habit
Few things are so powerful as taking consistent action and working towards your goal or dream each day.
It's the reliable but often forgotten or underrated motor that keeps you going until you get to where you want to go.
And without it you're likely to not get there at all. Or it will take a long, long time with many ups and down along the way.
With this post I'd like to inspire you to tap into this powerful habit more often. And I'd like to do that by sharing 80 of the best consistency quotes.
And if you want even more motivation for success then check out this post with quotes on how action speaks louder than words and...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Medicare and Social Security Are Responsible for 95 Percent of U.S. Unfunded Obligations
This report is intended to provide a short‐term view of the government’s financial h ealth, including the baseline against which new spending and tax proposals will be scored. Such scores inform legislators about the fiscal impact their proposals would have on 10‐year budget projections and whether they would trigger deficit‐reduction rules such as CUT-GO, a House rule th at requires offsetting spending reductions if legislation were to increase mandatory spending during the decade.The Financial Report Deserves More AttentionThe Financial Report of the U.S. Government deserves more attention. The report ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 28, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia Source Type: blogs
Electric Vehicles Yet the Latest Example of Costly “Green” Protectionism
James BacchusOn the topic of electric vehicles and the unintended consequences of a protectionist industrial policy, my Cato colleague Scott Lincicome recently noted on Twitter that German automaker Volkswagen just debuted a small, very affordable electric vehicle that won ’t be sold in the United States in part because of protectionist U.S. subsidies. In particular, several news outlets report that Volkswagen does not plan to build the ID.2all at its North American factories in Tennessee and Mexico—and thus it won’t be eligible for the EV tax credits passed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.Volkswagen just d...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 21, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: James Bacchus Source Type: blogs
Inflation Fell to 1.9% in the Second Half of 2022 from 10.7% in the First
Alan ReynoldsIn the first half of 2022, January to June, CPI inflation averaged 0.89% a month (nearly 1%). In the second half, the monthly changes averaged 0.16% (less than two‐tenth of one percent).Just multiply the average monthly inflation rate times twelve to see that the annual rate of inflation slowed from 10.7% in the first half to 1.9% in the second.Reducing inflation by 8.8 percentage points for half a year seems worthy of more attention. Instead, top Fed officials and uncritical journalists keep speaking and writing as though the change was barely discernable, merely a slight easing. The reason for that...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 19, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
America, Don ’t Be the Anti‐Network State: Crypto Policy for the Leader of the Free World
Jack SoloweyEntertaining crackdowns on Americans ’ voluntary use of software has been a theme of policy leaders’ response tofraud charges at centralized crypto exchange FTX. Following last week ’s FTX hearing, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-OH)floated the idea of “maybe banning” crypto. Earlier this month, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Rostin Behnamconsidered how the federal government might help offshore crypto exchanges that block U.S. users “protect those firewalls.”Banning open-source software and barring the doors to the global Internet is no way to lead the free world...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 22, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jack Solowey Source Type: blogs
The college football fans that beat COVID and the experts that couldn ’t
BY ANISH KOKA
The COVID pandemic was supposed to herald the end of the idea that a smaller government is a better government. The experts who desperately seek to be in charge of a sprawling bureaucratic state told us that it was only a powerful central authority that could do what was needed to safeguard individual liberties at a time when a highly contagious respiratory virus was spreading across the globe.
New Zealand may have imposed draconian policies that did not even allow its own citizens to return, but scenes of cheering unmasked New Zealanders stood in sharp contrast to empty seats in American stadiums when ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy College Football New Zealand Source Type: blogs
Joining Cato to Restrain the Federal Budget Leviathan
Romina BocciaThe U.S. federal budget is on a fiscal collision course with economic reality. Failing to significantly shift course threatens to undermine the vitality of the U.S. economy, the ability of the federal government to supply real public goods like national defense, and prevent the federal government from responding most effectively to unpredictable crises, such as war.Today, I am joining the Cato Institute to do my part to prevent a severe U.S. fiscal crisis by restraining the federal budget leviathan. I ’ll write and speak about federal spending, the budget process, the economic implications of ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 8, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia Source Type: blogs
Blind as an ADHD Bat
Ever been so ADHD that you can ’t see what you’re looking for, even when it’s right in front of your face?Given that ADHD has as many flavors as a bag of jelly beans, you might not all relate with ADHD tunnel vision. I, unfortunately, can’t say the same. If I had a jelly bean for every time something I was looking for was found right there in front of me, I could go into business and give Jelly Belly a run for their money.Today, the missing item was my iPhone. I got up from the table, left the kitchen, then wondered where my iPhone had gone. I went downstairs and searched for it. My daughter called it. I visite...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - April 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Goodreads Source Type: blogs
Welcome Back Kotter: New York ’ s next 1115 Waiver
The objectives of DSRIP 1.0 – a laundry list of HEDIS measures – made the program difficult to manage “on the ground” and too tightly tied to medical measures of success.
Too many choices. PPS were given choices about which projects they would work on – and by extension – which projects would be funded and measured. The projects were tactically expressed – and therefore too prescriptive – not just defining goals to be achieved – but presuming that DOH knew how goals would best be achieved. In many cases – this mismatch between what to do and how it would be done was...
Source: Docnotes - January 30, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jacob Tags: Health Politics Technology 1115 DSRIP VBP Source Type: blogs
