It's been that kind of a week, the kind where you wish you could avoid all the freakout-inducing headlines from the worlds of parenting, science, and safety. Where you wish you could just bundle them all up into one, so...
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Category archive: health
May 3, 2013
DT Friday Freakout: Edition Of The Rat
April 26, 2013
DT FRiday Freakout: Freeball Edition
The Scottish Medical Journal reports that some Dutch guy heard that Scottish guys have better sperm quality because kilts and scrotal temperature and sure, why not? Seriously, that is the level of the analysis we're talking about here. It's...
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April 2, 2013
Fukushima Babies Are A West Coast Thing
A study has found that kids in western US states born in the first four months of after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown were up to 28% more likely to have congenital hypothyroidism. The condition, which can be treated with...
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March 4, 2013
It's My Kind In A Box: Babyhok, The Dutch Baby Hutch
So that BBC story that DT reader Helena pointed us to the other day about Scandinavians kids being totally awesome and pink-cheeked and healthy all the time because their parents are parking them outside to sleep all winter elicited all...
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February 28, 2013
Scandinavian Babies All Sleepin' Outside All The Time FTW
We all know that Scandinavian kids sleep outside in their prams all winter long, wrapped in wool Onesies and down comforters, and that they're the healthiest, happiest, best-sleeping babies in any hemisphere. All that fresh air. We also know that...
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February 23, 2013
I Heartily Endorse This Event Or Product
The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC) is a resource of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families' (ACF) Office of Family Assistance (OFA). The NRFC's goals are to "provide, facilitate, and disseminate current research,...
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February 8, 2013
DT Friday Freakout: Teddy Bears Edition
I know I'm missing a bunch, but these reports from the worlds of science, health, parenting, and twitter [uh, three of these things belong together? -ed.] should be enough to freak you out and ruin your weekend. Except for the...
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December 10, 2012
Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red PR
Now that they've retired [Where's Jeff? Not at the barber, that's for sure!], and taken their last victory tour/lap of Australia, The Wiggles have put "The Big Red Car" on eBay, with all proceeds going to support SIDS and...
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December 7, 2012
DT Friday Freakout: L'Edition Sperme
We missed a couple of weeks, but here are a handful of headlines from the worlds of health, safety, and parenting, bundled up to freak you out all at once, on your own schedule. It's the Daddy Types Friday Freakout:...
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October 9, 2012
There Is No I In ADHD
Kids are taking ADHD drugs to offset the effects of underfunded schools: "If I don't take my medicine I'd be having attitudes. I'd be disrespecting my parents. I wouldn't be like this." Despite Quintn's experience with Adderall, the Rocaforts decided...
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October 5, 2012
Parenting Is Hard, Let's Go DNA Shopping!
Scientific American has a post warning about the potentially disastrous unforeseen consequences for humanity posed by pre-natal genetic testing and the increase in abortions and "abuse" that will "inevitably" follow:The 1% prevalence of schizophrenia makes it an apt target for...
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September 19, 2012
Help TheDaddyYoDude And His Family Fight Cancer
Even if you're young, active, and healthy, testicular cancer can come into your life like a swift kick in the nuts. At-home dad and dadblogger John Taylor of TheDaddyYoDude is fighting testicular cancer while raising two toddlers, while not having...
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September 13, 2012
No Blood For Mohel
Every time this whole, metzitzah b'peh, mohel sucks the blood off the freshly circumcised penis thing turns up in the news, I thank G-d that being a New Yorker only makes you Jewish on the inside. And speaking of the...
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September 8, 2012
Daddy's Special Brownies
And all this time I thought it was just a plant. San Francisco art dealer and father of three Mark Wolfe has an awesome and hilarious op-ed in the NY Times about how his medical marijuana prescription has transformed his...
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August 26, 2012
DT Friday Freakout: Sunday Edition
A roundup of headlines from the worlds of health, science, and parenting to freak you out and ruin [what's left of] your weekend, an exclusive service of Daddy Types: The CPSC is suing Buckyball desktop magnet toy makers because crazy...
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August 17, 2012
DT Friday Freakout: Nuts Edition
An abbreviated assortment of news from the worlds of science, health, and parenting to freak you out for the weekend: The better educated the parents, the worse kids do when trapped in a fridge. [aap, c. 1958 via felix] Eating...
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August 8, 2012
DTQ: Why Did Putting Vicks Vaporub On The Kid's Feet Stop Her Cough?
So K2 woke up in the middle of the night with a sudden and intense cough, and had a really hard time even breathing; it seemed like a mid-night ER visit for sure, but I just sat her on the...
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August 3, 2012
The Thurman Bussons Remind You Of The Benefits Of Breastfeeding
They had their daughter a couple of weeks ago, so mazel tov, and remember that breastfeeding provides tremendous health and social benefits to both mother and child. [thanks DT reader Michael who spotted the news, and who also encourages...
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July 25, 2012
DTQ: How Do You Handle Puking?
So on this installment of our annual family tradition of gathering the cousins at the Outer Banks, a sudden stomach flu outbreak in one family has turned our cottage into one of those crazy plague cruise ships. The sick...
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May 31, 2012
DT Friday Freakout
So hear are some headlines and such pulled from the media and designed to freak you out all week, compiled into one list, so you can freakout and ruin just your weekend: JennyMcCarthyBodyCount.com keeps a running tally of all the...
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May 26, 2012
DT Friday Freakout
A roundup of freakout headlines and news from the worlds of science, health, and parenting, to ruin your long weekend: Just because they're bite-size, kids should not eat the Tide laundry detergent nuggets. [slate] Haha, it's all fun and games...
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May 21, 2012
Shibuya Hikarie Underground Breastfeeding Spa De Gozaimasu
Luxurious women's lounges in department stores are nothing new. But I still can't help thinking the six differently themed ladies' rooms on each level of the new Shibuya Hikarie complex, including the curtain-filled breastfeeding spa on B2, is the...
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May 17, 2012
The Last Wiggle Standing
The Wiggles have been trying to morph from actual people into mindless, mass producible, perpetually monetizable branded characters for years, even before "Greg Wiggle" got sick in 2006 and was replaced by Sam Moran as "The Yellow Wiggle." And now...
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May 3, 2012
That Era Of Casual Abandonment Of Newborn Babies
There are a lot of things I disagree with George Will about, not the least of which is the way his political ideology rewards him for tossing off a phrase like "this era of casual destruction of pre-born babies." But...
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April 27, 2012
DT Friday Freakout: Class Edition
The Friday Freakout, a compendium of parenting headlines delivered all at once instead of dribbled out daily, to ruin just your weekend, a Daddy Types exclusive: During the Obama administration, the food and beverage industry has doubled the amount of...
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April 9, 2012
Surely Crunchy Vacctivists Will Infect Us All
If the inadequate vaccination schedules don't, that is. And really, it's mostly the tiniest kids who can't get vaccinated yet who need the herd immunity in the first place. Discover Magazine's Bad Astronomy blog points to a local Fox News...
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March 30, 2012
DT Friday Freakout: ASD BPA CPSC Edition
A collection of--let's face it, a couple of--headlines from the worlds of health, science, and parenting designed to ruin your weekend, it's the DT Friday Freakout: "New Study Finds Skyrocketing Increase in Autism" could really be from any week now,...
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March 6, 2012
Oh, We're Freaking Out Every Day Now: Today Is Toddlers With Cavities
I'm not sure what's more batshit insane about the New York Times' story on how toddlers are having so many cavities, they have to go under general anesthesia to fix them because they're ridiculous parents and nannies are juicing, bottled-watering,...
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February 24, 2012
DT Friday Freakout
Here are some headlines from the worlds of science, safety, politics and parenting, all balled up into one big freakout to ruin your weekend: A shorter Babble: "Helicopter Parenting: Am I the reason why my son's so difficult?" Yes. [babble...
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February 20, 2012
Not The Elimination Communication We Were Expecting
When we first heard from blogger John Biggs, he had just had his first kid, and was Daddy Types' first guest blogger. He posted a bit, then mentioned something about writing about his experience with elimination communication--and then life intervened,...
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February 17, 2012
DT Friday Freakout: Sleep Edition
Because you've got enough to freak out about already, Daddy Types collects headlines from the worlds of science, health, and parenting designed to freak you during the week, and compiles them into one big, weekend-ruining list, the DT Friday Freakout:...
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February 13, 2012
DT Monday Meds Mayhem
I try, but sometimes, some things really can't wait until the DT Friday Freakout. Like this study showing that acetaminophen causes asthma. And that kids with asthma or at risk for it are recommended not to take it. It's apparently...
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February 10, 2012
DT Friday Freakout: Diet Coke Edition
I don't know about you, but for me, this week's roundup of headlines from the worlds of science, health, and parenting is a Super Double Big Gulp of freakout. I'd drown my freakout in Diet Coke, but, well: Diet sodas...
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January 13, 2012
DT Friday Freakout: Disaster Edition
Well, I just had my calendar cleared, and ended up spending ten hours out with the kids. At one point, we just sat in the car. For like an hour. Just chilling when napping wouldn't do. And then there were...
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January 6, 2012
DT Friday Freakout: Boing Boing Edition
It's the weekend! Which will now be ruined by freaking out over these news stories from the worlds of parenting, health, science, and whatever: Fetal cells basically stay floating in the mother's bloodstream forever. It's called microchimerism. [boingboing, which, hmm,...
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January 2, 2012
Awesome National Geographic Story About Twins Studies
If you have or are having twins, you probably already know about it, but Peter Miller's National Geographic article on twins studies is pretty fascinating for anyone with DNA:"What I like to say is that Mother Nature writes some things...
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December 22, 2011
And They Shall Call His Name Emanuel. And His Jesus.
Let's put this story from the northern Brazilian state of Para into chronological order:Claudioner Assis de Vasconcelos, director of the hospital in Anajas where she gave birth, told Brazil's O Povo newspaper that the mother came in because she was...
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December 2, 2011
DT Friday Freakout: Lead Juicebox Edition
Here to ruin your weekend, a healthy dose of freakout headlines from the worlds of parenting, science, health, education, and safety: Not to freak you out or anything, just that Consumer's Union really wants something to be done about all...
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December 1, 2011
A Children's Treasury Of Playground Near Nuclear Power Plant Photos
I can't figure out what's going on in these photographs Eric Vance took. I mean, they're labeled "environmental justice," and they were taken in 2007. For the EPA. During the Bush Administration. So I can only assume they are...
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November 11, 2011
DT Friday Freakout: Lollipox Edition
Sometimes it's hard not to freak out over these stories when they're dribbled out by media. But then, that's exactly why Daddy Types bundles them up into one, giant Friday Freakout, so they can ruin your weekend, not your whole...
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November 4, 2011
DT Friday Freakout: Ritalin/Candy Edition
Why give in to the publicists and media, and freak out every day, right? Here are some headlines from the worlds of science, health, parenting, and education--plus one remixed Simpsons clip--to freak you out all at once. On the weekend:...
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November 1, 2011
Holy Crap, It's Contagion-Meets-12-Monkeys In Waldorf Schools
I'm no wingnut, and I don't like to be put in a position of agreeing with one, but day-um, Bay Area Waldorf people! Look me straight in the eye and expl--well, never mind. Just why the hell are 77%...
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October 21, 2011
DT Friday Freakout
Instead of following the publicists' plan to schedule science, health, and research-related news releases one a day, thereby freaking you out all week, Daddy Types saves them all until Friday, so you can freakout over them all at once. All...
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October 16, 2011
Emliy Rapp Is Intense Parent, Writer
Even if my experience and religious beliefs give me a different kind of hope, Emily Rapp's insights into raising her terminally ill son are extraordinary, inspiring--and hard-won.Our experiences have taught us how to parent for the here and now, for...
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October 14, 2011
DT Friday Freakout: Occupy Sesame Street Edition
Personally, my weekend's already ruined, full of regret for not doing more with the Occupy Sesame Street concept. Or maybe I'll just work in my Photoshop skills. [tauntr] As for the rest of you, here are a few headlines from...
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I Am Unsettled By The Idea Of A Smartphone Ultrasound
Ultrasound should stay in the mall where it belongs. Ultrasound on the go? Smartphone-based imaging system released by Mobisante [geekwire via someone, thanks]...
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September 20, 2011
New Study Shows Half Of ADHD Cases Are Actually GTFTSD
Go on, admit it, half the time you heard some rambunctious kid or other's got ADHD, you thought to yourself, it's either a parenting thing or a Big Pharma scam. Well:A new study published in the American Journal of Family...
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September 16, 2011
DT Friday Freakout: I Want My T Edition
A work project that took way more time than it should have has filled my browser tabs with news from the worlds of science and parenting that will ruin your weekend: Actually, if you've seen the study--and once you get...
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August 12, 2011
DT Friday Freakout: Hot Dog Edition
Has it been far too long since inflammatory stories from the worlds of science, health, education, and parenting filled your weekend with Freakout? Well, clear the picnic table: Your bologna has a middle name, it's D-I-A-B-E-T-E-S. A daily serving of...
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July 20, 2011
Who's Swaggerin' Now? Pharma Targets Yuppies With Costumed Fertility Rap
If you think about it, it'd be impossible not to wince-laugh at the very sight/idea of a sub/urban white couple in their 30s rapping about their frustrations with fertility. So the fact that they're wearing stupid bird & bee...
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