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Health Tip: Pack a Healthy Lunch for Your Child

By HealthCast on August 27, 2018

Children need nutritious lunches to help them stay healthier, concentrate in school and play sports.

The FDA suggests how to pack a healthier lunch:

Plan your meals for the entire week. Fill your child’s lunchbox with foods that contribute to healthy growth and weight maintenance.
Encourage your child to help pack lunch. This will help teach lifelong habits for building healthy and balanced meals.
Focus on the basic four food groups: fruits and vegetables, whole grains, dairy and proteins.
Look for inspiration on healthy food websites.
Make sure portions are appropriate for your child.
Read nutritional labels to help you select the healthiest options.

Source: HealthDay

Are You Living with Psoriasis?

A growing knowledge of the skin disease called psoriasis is leading to greater treatment choices, including personalized therapies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports.

Psoriasis is an immune system disorder that causes overproduction of skin cells, resulting in scaling, pain, swelling, redness and heat. The condition affects about 7.5 million Americans.

“As we better understand the disease, researchers know more about what specific factors to target in order to develop effective treatments,” FDA dermatologist Dr. Melinda McCord said in an agency news release.

There is no cure for psoriasis, so the main goals of treatments are to stop skin cell overproduction and reduce inflammation. Current therapies include medicines applied to the skin (topical), light treatment (phototherapy), or drugs taken by mouth or given by injection.

Doctors used to take a step-by-step approach, starting patients with mild to moderate psoriasis on topical therapy. If that was ineffective, doctors moved on to phototherapy or drug treatment.

Health Tip: Pack a Healthy Lunch for Your Child

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