Understanding Dehydration for Students Have you ever wondered why you are so sleepy and tired? Do you find it difficult to concentrate and often have headaches? The answer may be as simple as drinking more water and staying hydrated. Dehydration is a huge issue amongst students. This is often due to living life in the …
Understanding Dehydration in the elderly The human body is made up of roughly 65% water which explains why it is so important to drink water and and keep the body working efficiently and effectively. Through mechanisms such as breathing, sweating and going to the loo, water is removed from the body, needing replacing. There are …
The importance of water in a child’s diet It is really important that children are given enough water to drink and learn to recognise the symptoms of thirst. It is important the carer who is responsible for the child makes fluids available (preferably water) and is aware of situations when fluids should be increased. Young …
Sugar really does affect the teeth! A smile means so much and has the ability to make a child happy and confident. However this is so often not the case. According to public health England ‘a quarter of 5 year olds (24.7%) have tooth decay’ and ‘between 2014 and 2015 63,000 children aged between 0 …
Childhood obesity is here now in almost every country. No longer is it just America or Europe that has overweight kids, now countries that have moved up the development scale like Mexico, China and Brazil have the problem too. Defining whether a child is overweight or obese is not easy. It is generally agreed that …