Health

New study on teens
by Claudia Sonea

Another study on teens problems regarding weight has been performed by the University of Minnesota. More than 2500 teenagers revealed some new things and also reinforced previous discoveries in this field. The main problem is that both over-weight and too thin teens abuse laxatives and are provoking the vomiting. All this being caused by the way the society perceives the human body, therefore body attitudes plays a very big role. Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, lead author of the study, states that this type of measures, like purging or abusing laxatives, diet pills or diuretics are all short-term solutions because on a longer term it will lead to the gain of more pounds and eventually to over-weight people. 44 percent of the girls and 22 percent of the boys confessed to have taken such measures considered to be extreme measures. According to Neumark-Sztainer everything is due to the self-esteem and body dissatisfaction. Another conclusion of the study was that girl who are teased about their weight are more exposed to the eating disorder and to be over-weight in five years in comparison to other girls. A general advice was that grownups should focus more on building the children self esteem than the obesity risk. Dr. Joel Jahraus, medical director of the Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital Eating Disorders Institute in Minneapolis, says that parents should send a balance message rather than cramming their children's head with diets. Teens should be more interested in developing a personality than to reach the perfect size. However, because we live in an aesthetic society, where appearances count a lot, usually we forget what is more important, that beauty fades with time and the soul is all that we have. Parents and people must lose the attitude they have towards children with a higher risk of obesity. Pressure will only lead to a desire of losing weight fast and therefore to an actually gain of weight. The study recommends family meals, in a more comfortable and relaxing environment. Don't forget, whenever you tease someone about the way she/he looks you might be responsible of her/his doom. Keep it natural!

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071014/ap_on_he_me/diet_overweight_teens;_ylt=Ah4B.hSJ6A7nwql.diMjeSas0NUE

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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