CCP Virus Pandemic Causing Rise in Eating Disorders in Children, Say Child Health Experts
Eating disorders among children in the UK have risen sharply during the CCP virus pandemic, child health experts have said, attributing it in part to increased stress, isolation, and increased social media use.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said on Monday that a “huge rise in cases of anorexia nervosa and other food restriction disorders” among children compared to last year had been reported by paediatricians around the country, particularly in the past few months.
“They all put this down to the effects of the pandemic on young people’s lives,” the College said in a statement.
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Behind closed doors: lessons from elite sport could help parents locked out of neonatal units
December 23, 2020
Thousands of elite athletes are once again participating in close-contact sport every week, and even throughout the recent “Lockdown 2.0,” and despite the ongoing covid-19 pandemic restrictions. Athletes have special concessions allowing them to contravene social distancing when considered essential for their sport to be played. The restart was facilitated by official guidance documents “
Return to Domestic Competition – No Spectators” and
“Behind Closed Doors”, their titles reflecting spectator bans. [1,2]
Within UK men’s and women’s senior football alone, eight international and 214 domestic teams are training and competing regularly, mixing in different locations up and down the country, and around the globe. Not to mention support staff, each match sees up to 28 players battling in close-contact sport, and teams embracing in close-celebration.
Shielding reintroduced in England s tier 4 areas
Clinically extremely vulnerable patients in the parts of England that were placed into tier 4 at the weekend have been advised to shield again.
by Emma Bower
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The study, published in the journal Atmosphere, analysed data collected every few minutes from pollution monitors in people’s homes and in total assessed 260 uses of wood burners. The results showed the burners were usually lit for about four hours at a time, and during this period the level of harmful particles in homes was three times higher than when stoves were not being used.
During those four hours, average particle levels rose to between 27 and 195 micrograms per cubic metre of air. The World Health Organization limit is 25μg/m3 over 24 hours. “Epidemiologists are increasingly recognising that exposure to high intensities of [small particles] over much shorter periods of time – hours rather than days – is linked to a range of health issues,” the researchers wrote.