Obesity itself cannot solely be blamed on the high consumption of soda or sugary-drinks, but there is a strong correlation between the two. Boston Children’s Hospital preformed a study with 224 overweight, or obese, high school students. Half of the recipients received free home deliveries of zero-calorie drinks along with water; others received a fifty dollar gift card. According to this study, “after one year, the gift card recipients had gained more weight than those who got the calorie-free drinks” (“Getting Fat on Sugary-Drinks” 8). The evidence provided in this study concludes that soda can be a leading factor in obesity rates, and that water or lower-calorie drinks can help prevent obesity.
Teen Sexuality’s research showed a few things: Adolescents who stated that they were connected with their parents were more likely than other teens to delay sexual intercourse. Teens who said their families were warm and caring also reported less marijuana use and less emotional distress. Teens who had a "good talk" with parents in the last year about sex, birth control, and the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases were more likely to use condoms at the last time they had sex than teens who did not talk to their parents. Only 38 percent of young women and 25 percent of young men said they had ever gotten a good idea from their parents that helped them talk about sexual issues with their girlfriend/boyfriend. The article also suggested that teens also listened to the information better when it came from their parents rather than school, or other outside sources.
Children now spend more than seven and a half hours a day in front of a screen. This surprised me because I thought it would be more hours.my brother spends a lot more than 7 in front of a screen. Reducing the sodium Americans eat by 1,200mg per day on could save up to $20 billion a year in medical costs. This surprised me because I did not know people ate that much salt. Prevalence of obesity for children ages 2 to 5 years – doubled.
Mother Jones says that since children will see, on average, 200,000 acts of violence on televsion before they are 18 it must be television's fault. But then, why is it in other countries children are exposed to the same televsion, but crime rate and murder isn't nearly as high amoung teenagers? So it can't be television, it has to be a different source in their life. It is no coinincedence that crime is higher in certain areas and within certain races, eventhough they are exposed to the same media. Even within the same cities, "murder rate among black teens in Washington, D.C., is twenty-five times higher than that of white teens living a few Metro stops away."
Teenagers had more babies than they do now, but access to good jobs-even with only a high school education-enabled young men to marry their pregnant girlfriends. Even though the 50's were good, it didn't lead to better 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. The 1950s family was more of a short-lived experiment than a continuation of a long tradition. For all of its good points, family life in the 1950s was hardly ideal. Families weren't as well-off economically as they would become by the end of the 1960s.
Cigarette Ads Hook Kids The only way that tobacco manufacturers can survive is they have to continue to find new cigarette smokers. There are many reasons why tobacco companies focus on children and teenagers. (1995, Consumer Reports) The tobacco industry recognizes that very few people start smoking as adults; therefore, their best bets for these new people are kids. (2002, University of Chicago) Ads are frequently geared precisely for teens. They use vibrant pictures and descriptions that catch their attention.
Anthony Gross Durden Rough Draft Feb. 23rd 2012 For decades it has been argued whether or not video game violence has any link to adolescent anger and behavior problems. More than half the world’s adolescents reported having at least one video game console in their bedrooms. (2010) This has nearly tripled since 1992 when only 18 percent of teens had access to a gaming console in their homes. It’s believed that with the introduction to violent video games the aggression levels in teens has risen. This is because video games are much more interactive then movies and television which gives teens a more real control of a character that is committing these violent and crime based acts.
Prevention of Teen Pregnancy: The Benefits of Sexual Education Programs In the United States, the rate of teen pregnancy continues to remain the highest in the developed world with approximately 26.6 births for every 1,000 adolescent females between the ages of 15-19 this past year. This totals to an unfavorable measure of 274,641 infants born to young women in this stage of life. Although prevention programs continue to grow and become more available throughout the states each year, their approach to influencing minors is questionable. Most engage in an abstinence-only education and believe that having teens refrain themselves from sexual intercourse is the only way to put a stop to unwanted pregnancies. Practicing abstinence may be the most utterly method for minimizing this rate, but it’s an irrational method.
The ads that we observed fall into the categories of food, health, and beauty products, movies, and public service announcements. In the category of food items such as, cereal, candies, fruit punch, potato chips, frozen threats, hamburgers, French fries and chicken nuggets are marketed in intriguing and appetizing ways. Barbie dolls and other animated toys from the movie Tarzan were frequently advertised. Hair shampoo was also marketed to children. Most of Disney’s movies were advertised during this time and public service announcements to stay off drugs and sign up for volunteer work were also feature in the two hours that we watched.
Should sex education be taught in schools? There have been many debates over this. Studies show parents say that sex education only destroys the morality of people because they think that sex education teaches students about how sexual intercourse is done. Although sex education lowers the morality of people by teaching students how to use condoms and contraceptives, it should be taught in primary school and secondary school because its a prevents sexual diseases and teenage pregnancy, it is indeed a need in case of parents’ absence, and it gives children the idea of what is right and what is wrong. Research shows that teens are more sexually active now than before.