Grandmothers' smoking linked to grandchildren's asthma decades later
...hers did not smoke while pregnant. Children whose grandmothers smoked were more than twice as likely (2.1 times) to develop asthma. Even if a child's mother did not smoke while she was pregnant-but the child's grandmother did-the child had nearly double the risk (1.8 times) of developing asthma. If both the m...UF study: Child raising toughest on young grandmothers
...s a University of Florida study that finds younger grandmothers in this role are depressed more often than their o... America's Families, a sample representing 430,018 grandmothers between the ages of 32 and 71, which was collected by the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute. T...Where's the beef? Not enough of it is on elders' plates, muscle-metabolism study suggests
.... We wanted to know if there is some reason your grandmothers body, for example, cant stimulate muscle growth in response to eating the same protein-rich meal that you eat, which might over time contribute to muscle loss, said Douglas Paddon-Jones, an associate professor in UTMBs departments of physical therapy...