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Healthy childhood development through outdoor risky play: Navigating the balance with injury prevention

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… ....

Canada , New-zealand , Canadian , Pamela-fuselli , Mariana-brussoni , Officers-of-health , Champagne-public-health-agency-of-canada , Canadian-public-health-association , Community-paediatrics , Canadian-childcare-federation , Health-committees-of-the-canadian-paediatric-society , Prevention-program

Dietary supplements and the U.S. military

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. ....

Benjamin-kligler , Andrea-lindsey , Stefan-pasiakos , Lee-margolis , J-russell-linderman , Office-of-patient-centered-care-cultural-transformation , Department-of-defense , National-institutes-of-health , Department-of-veterans-affairs , Council-for-responsible-nutrition , Drug-administration , Office-of-dietary-supplements