Opinion: With high rates of supplement use among troops, the authors of this op-ed present measures to ensure service members know what ingredients are safe.
Some weight loss products marketed online to the military as dietary supplements are not what they say they are, according to a new paper published in the JAMA Network Open medical journal.
Free play is essential for children’s development and for their physical, mental, and social health. Opportunities to engage in outdoor free play—and risky play in particular—have declined significantly in recent years, in part because safety measures have sought to prevent all play-related injuries rather than focusing on serious and fatal injuries. Risky play is defined by thrilling and exciting forms of free play that involve uncertainty of outcome and a possibility of physical injury. Proponents of…
The U.S. military is actively investigating and surveilling dietary supplement use among its service members as part of a wider whole health approach to improve nutrition from chow line to front line and into retirement.