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Why going dairy-free can hit your iodine levels
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why going dairy-free can hit your iodine levels

...adults every day. By contrast, our study found that a glass of milk substitute would provide only around two micrograms. The drinks with added iodine (as stated on the ingredients label) provided a reasonable amount of iodine (between 45μg and 60μg per glass). But, as these drinks were not from a market leader, most consumers will probably not get enough iodine in their...
There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!
Health, Sports & Psychology

There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!

...adults) do have bad bedtime habits, researchers have long since proven that this global problem has a biological cause. In 2004, researchers at the University of Munich proved that teenagers actually have a different sense of time. Their study showed that the 24-hour cycle which determines when you wake and sleep gets later during your teens, reaching its latest point by...
Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...adults can find the experience of expressing one’s views, exploring one’s identity, and deploying one’s craft knowledge and skills to achieve authorial intentions very satisfying. Much depends on issues of ownership and control. Are children positioned as authors – writers with rights? Or are they positioned as pupils, obliged to play the ‘school game called...
Do boys need male role models?
Education & Development

Do boys need male role models?

...adult roles primarily by observing and copying behaviour in others, as ‘social learning’ theories imply? In practice, academic approaches to gender development have moved on, placing much greater emphasis on the ways in which children’s understandings of masculinity and femininity are actively shaped by diverse and changing social contexts. The evidence that boys...
Can the Economy be Irish?
Money & Business

Can the Economy be Irish?

...de-globalising project. ...[Scrabble words spelling out the word 'Brexit'] Image credit: Speedpropertybuyers The Irish are great storytellers, illuminated through the centuries by Beckett, Yeats, O’Brien, Shaw, Wilde, Binchy, Enright and Joyce to name a few. The great English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, said that narrative is the superior form of knowledge, whilst...
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...adult weight, reaching 90% of adult size by age five. Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, 2021 ‘Brain-based learning’ (BBL) is receiving increasing attention in the popular and professional fields. But what exactly is it? Before we explore the idea further it is important to understand the brain as we currently know it. The diagram of the brain (below) will...
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Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...de-de-de-de. You know, mentally you need to be able to cope with all that pressure and to kind of execute what you’ve done that makes you so good and do it in the most intense situations. Caroline: Pressure is a big part of being involved in a sport so the pressure of, for example, preparing for an Olympic Games in terms of being selected for Olympic Games is a big...
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...adult size and shape. They are also maturing sexually at this stage. Dietary reference values in fact comprise three numbers: the EAR, just discussed, the reference nutrient intake, RNI, and the lower reference nutrient intake, LRNI. These figures replace the old recommended daily amount (RDA), which was felt not to offer sufficient flexibility for individuals’...