080 - Asthma / Screen Time / Exercise Motivation The Body of Evidence

What does the body of evidence say on the topic of asthma? Plus: how much time children spend in front of screens, and how to nudge people to go to the gym.
 
Block 1:
(3:15) Asthma: wheezing, similar diseases, how asthma is diagnosed
 
Block 2:
(10:53) Asthma: exercise-induced “asthma,” what is asthma, cold and thunderstorms as triggers, allergies, infections, treatments
 
Block 3:
(29:31) Screen time in children
 
Block 4:
(40:06) Nudging people to go to the gym
 
 
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References:
 
1) Episode 43 on allergies: https://bodyofevidence.ca/043-allergies-and-organic-food
 
2) The 2019 Global Initiative for Asthma report: https://ginasthma.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Whats-new-in-GINA-2021_final_V2.pdf
 
3) How will new recommendations from the GINA report affect practice in Canada: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/192/17/E456?ijkey=00df329033338403c174cbb90af80401afad6136&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
 
4) GINA FAQ on asthma: https://ginasthma.org/about-us/faqs/
 
5) Trial on combined budenoside-formoterol as needed in mild asthma: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1715274
 
6) Systematic review and meta-analysis on screen time in children 5 years and younger: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2789091
 
7) American Academy of Paediatrics’ guidelines on screen time: https://www.healthychildren.org/English/family-life/Media/Pages/Where-We-Stand-TV-Viewing-Time.aspx
 
8) Canadian Paediatrics Society’s guidelines on screen time: https://caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/behavior-and-development/screen-time-and-young-children
 
9) Megastudy on nudging people to go to the gym: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04128-4
 
 
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