Breakfast-Skipping Teens More Likely To Suffer Iron Shortfall
Teens who start their day without breakfast are twice as likely to have diets low in iron, a shortfall that could be hurting their grades.
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Watching Wrestling Associated With Date Fighting and Other Violence
Exposure to this type of violence on television when a teen's cognitive, social and physical development is still being cemented can affect adolescents in a negative way.
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Young Teens See Pregnancy As A Way To Enhance Relationships
How to prevent teen pregnancy, researchers gain insight.
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Weight Lifting Can Help Overweight Teens Reduce Risk of Diabetes
Teens at risk of developing diabetes can prevent or delay its onset through strength training exercise.
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Teenagerhood, Age of Opportunity
Lots of the decisions that teens make during teenage years set them down paths that affect their health and happiness when they are adults.
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Being Overweight As A Teen Associated With Premature Death In Adulthood
Researchers found that being overweight at age 18 is associated with an increased risk of premature death in younger and middle aged women.
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Teenage Ridicule Has Lasting Effects On Consumer Behavior
The practice of ridicule both reflects and affects teens' perceptions of belongingness, the content of ridicule conveys information about the consumption norms and values of peer groups.
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Teens More Vulnerable To Peer Influences From Popular, Well-Liked Classmates
Teens publicly conformed to the behavior of high status peers when others viewed their responses.
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Fewer High School Students Engage in Health Risk Behaviors
Teens appear to be getting the message to buckle up. Another highlight involves the alcohol use.
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Graduated Driver Licensing Reduces Fatal Crashes by 11 Percent
Restrictions decrease fatal crashes for 16 year old drivers and teens.
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Estrogen Plays Different Role During Stress in Black and White Teens
Estrogen seems to play a different role during stress in black and white teen girls, a difference that may help explain higher cardiovascular disease rates in blacks.
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Early Puberty May Mean Anxiety, Abnormal Eating Behaviors Later
Early puberty also is a time when teenagers and even pre teens are likely to first experiment with marijuana.
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Physiological Markers for Cutting, Other Self-Harming Behaviors by Teenage Girls Found
Non fatal and self inflicted injuries by teenage and young adult females are major public health problems.
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Unwanted Sex Appears Common in Some Teen Relationships
Many teenage girls report being threatened or pressured by their partners into having sex, potentially increasing their risk for sexually transmitted infections and pregnancies.
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Overweight and Obesity Enlarges Teenagers' Hearts
Bigger, heavier hearts portend heart disease risk even before adulthood.
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Top Summer Health Concerns
Most teens look forward to staying up late this summer, sleeping in, and having their first jobs, while their parents may worry about common summer health risks.
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Teens Seeking Physical Perfection at Risk
Glossy pages of magazines are filled with stunning celebrities and rail thin models, leading more teens to experience eating disorders and distorted body images.
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Living In Poverty Associated with Increased Risk for Teens To Be Overweight
Teens aged 15 to 17 years who live in poverty are more likely to be overweight than those not living in poverty.
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Hello? Their Phones Have Changed, but Teenaged Girls Have Not
Most of the teenage girls she talked with were given cellphones by their parents to keep them safe, a safety that the girls believed was a real concern.
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One in 50 Teenagers Still Wet The Bed
Almost half of 19 year old teens with problems wet the bed every night.
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Teens Tap Into Text Messaging Craze
For some teens, tex messaging can become a habit that affects their school work, their ability to sleep at night and how they interact with their friends face to face.
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Affairs of The Heart Matter To Boys, Too, Sociologists Find
Teenage boys have feelings, too, and when it comes to matters of the heart, they may not be so fleeting after all.
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Nature vs Nintendo: Video Games or National Parks
Could the online virtual experiences be the future national park trips for America's youth?
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Disabled Teens Aim High - But Unequal Opportunities Thwart Success
Disabled teenagers hold the same aspirations to stay in education and find fulfilling careers as their non disabled classmates.
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Streetwise Teens Gang Together To Avoid Trouble and Stay Safe
Groups of teenagers 'hanging out' on the streets may look intimidating, but young people often gang together with friends as a way of keeping safe and avoiding trouble.
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Wide Variety of Physical Activities May Protect Teens Against Risky Behavior
Among teens who fare well are skateboarders, particularly regarding their self esteem and despite a lack of wide public support for this activity.
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Teens Who Own Alcohol-Branded Merchandise May Drink at Earlier Age
Owning a piece of clothing or other merchandise with an alcohol brand name on it may be associated with an earlier start to drinking.
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Teenage Depression Can Be Enduring, but Is More Often Short-Lived
Teenage depression is widespread and can become a life- ong illness, but is more often transitory.
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Reducing Teens' Intake of Sugary Drinks
The teens were offered a $100 mall gift certificate if they stuck with the six-month study, and all did.
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Adolescents' Grades, Well-Being Suffer Along With Body Image
Teens who consider themselves overweight may have a greater risk for depression and school related stress.
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Many Body-Conscious Teens Use Supplements to Improve Physique
Media exposure strongly influences supplements use by teens.
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Drug Use Linked To Brain Hemorrhage In Young Adults
A fifth of young adults whose blood vessels ruptured inside their brain abused drugs.
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Teen Weight Control Behavior May Reflect Mothers' Attitudes on Weight
Teenagers are more likely to think about wanting to be thin, and to be frequent dieters, if they accurately perceive that being thin is important to their mothers.
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Teens' Healthy Food Choices
Teen's healthy food choices are foiled by early lunch, soft drink machine, income and parents who cater.
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Physician Counseling, At-Home Follow-up May Improve Teen Health Behaviors
A program that combines advice from a primary care physician with computer assessment, mailings and phone calls may help teens improve some aspects of their diets and physical activity levels.
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Is - Just Say No - an Effective Anti-drug Approach?
By involving kids in making video presentations of the kind of real life situations they face, the social consequences of drug taking are addressed in a way that makes sense to other kids.
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Black, White Teens Show Differences in Nicotine Metabolism
The findings have implications for the way teens of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are provided smoking cessation treatments.
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Most Behaviors Preceding Major Causes of Preventable Death Have Begun By Young Adulthood
By the time they reach early adulthood, a large proportion of American youth have begun the poor practices contributing to three leading causes of preventable death.
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Newer Football Helmet Design May Reduce Incidence of Concussions in High School Players
The study compared concussion rates and recovery times of high school athletes wearing newer helmet technology to those wearing helmets with traditional designs.
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Continued Decline in Drug Use by Students
Drug use among teens is on decline, but using specific drugs of abuse such as prescription painkillers among teenagers are concerning.
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