Topic: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Only about one in 10 U.S. teens is getting enough exercise and one in four has a soda a day, adding to concerns about obesity among American youth, government researchers said on Thursday.A team at the Centers for Disease ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While poverty is usually associated with greater health risks, a study published Monday suggests that young teens from middle- to higher-income families may be somewhat more likely than their less affluent peers to use alcohol.UK researchers found ...
You've heard about the growing rates of childhood obesity, and you probably know that a healthy diet and lots of exercise can prevent kids from becoming overweight. The American Academy of Pediatrics advises that all kids ages 2 and up have their ...
When young children receive immediate positive reinforcement for appropriate behavior, they are more likely to repeat that behavior. A research group at the University of Rochester conducted a three-year study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This means as ...
10/19/2010 Print E-mail Between studying and socializing at all hours, college students often struggle with a lack of sleep and fatigue.. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers these suggestions: Waking Baby
One-third of American teens aren't learning about contraceptives during sex education classes, but most of them are getting schooled in "how to say no" to sex. Nearly all teens polled by the CDC for this survey had received some kind of formal ...
The use of cigarettes and tobacco products by youths has declined substantially over the past decade -- though not from 2006 to 2009 -- but nearly one in four high school students still used tobacco products in 2009, according to a report ...
American high school students today take significantly fewer health risks than did their counterparts in the early 1990s, although they do slightly worse in terms of obesity, asthma, exercise, and sunscreen use. That's according to a new CDC report on youth risk ...
1 in 5 high school students taking medicines without prescriptions, CDC study saysA new report shows one in five high school students have taken a prescription drug that they didn't get from a doctor.The abused drugs include pain pills and attention deficit ...
I remember when I first heard about using plastic wrap for sex. I know now that there are LOTS of potential sexual uses for plastic wrap, but back then my awakening came when I was first told that it could be used ...
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