Stay updated with breaking news from Gerber Foundation. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Children who engage in daily physical activity and spend less than an hour a day looking at screens had better control over their emotions and impulses, a new study found.
A new study explored whether adherence to American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for diet and physical activity had any relationship with toddlers' ability to remember, plan, pay attention, shift between tasks and regulate their own thoughts and behavior, a suite of skills known as executive function.
Analyses of data on hundreds of young children suggested that regular consumption of sugary snacks and other unhealthy food, coupled with chaotic living environments, may impair children’s development of executive function skills.
The News Bureau, part of Strategic Communications and Marketing, generates and coordinates news coverage of the Urbana-Champaign campus
Kids of all ages are donning their costumes for the Halloween season – including the youngest patients at the Gerber Foundation Neonatal Center at Spectrum Health Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital.