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Kids who sleep more may eat less

Encouraging school age children to sleep at night could help prevent and treat obesity, a study suggests. Researcher  at Temple’s Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE) enrolled 37 children between ages of 8 to 11, 27 percent of whom were overweight or obese, to examine the impact of sleep on their eating behaviours. During […]

Playing with toy blocks improves learning skills

Playing with blocks may help preschoolers develop the kind of skills that support later learning in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), according to a new study published in the Journal Child Development by researchers at the University of Delaware and Temple University  in United states. The study, carried out on more than a hundred of […]