Food As Sport

The mixed message surrounding healthy eating habits The emphasis on the obesity epidemic by health care experts has generated widespread media coverage. Obesity across all age groups is rampant in America and has grave consequences for our health and longevity. While this problem continues to be studied and multi disciplinary approaches towards interventions have been […]

Maternal Depression: You Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover

A call for universal screeningA health care professional once told me a story about her bout with postpartum depression. She talked about spending months in her pajamas, never leaving the house and struggling to function in her role as a new mother. She talked about barely being able to care for her baby and about […]

Increasing Breastfeeding Rates in the United States

What can be done? The United States Department of Health and Human Services developed specific recommendations for breastfeeding initiation and duration in the United States as part of their Healthy People 2010 national initiative for health promotion and disease prevention. Because the health benefits associated with breastfeeding for both the mother and baby are well […]

Prenatal Care and Birth Outcomes

Does Continuous Coverage Make Sense? The cost associated with premature birth and low birth weight babies is astounding. According to a 2007 study in Pediatrics, the annual cost of hospitalization for premature/low birth weight babies in the United States during 2001 was $5.8 billion. This cost reflects 47% of all infant hospitalizations in that year […]