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- 08-05 The Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence project conclude thatsome 27% of young men and 20% of women aged 13-17 are either overweight or obese
- 08-05 The FA has agreed to extend the Mixed Football experiment for another season.
- 08-05 In the aftermath of teenage suicide: A qualitative study of the psychosocial consequences for the surviving family members.
- 08-05 UK-style Dutch school drug prevention programme helps prevent regular drinking
- 08-05 The National Children's Nutrition Conference - Cardiff - 10 June 2008
- 08-05 Girls in the US are participating in organised sports in record numbers but participation in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity outside of organized sports is declining, especially as they move from childhood into adolescence
- 08-05 Mental health promotion and illness prevention in Australian school settings
- 08-05 A Review of Sex and Relationships Education in Scottish Secondary Schools
- 08-05 How to cope with a 16-year-old's stress
- 08-05 The key issues that concern young people in Nepal
- 08-05 Children's vitamin supplements
- 08-04 27% of 8-11 year olds who are aware of social networking Internet sites (e.g. MySpace) say that they have an illegal profile on a site
- 08-04 Preventing the uptake of smoking by children: consultation on the draft guidance
- 08-04 In the US, gymnastics has one of the highest injury rates of all girls' sports.
- 08-04 Risky drinking in North West school children and its consequences: A study of fifteen and sixteen year olds
- 08-04 Seven per cent of young people in Liverpool have been bullied about their sexuality.
- 08-04 In the US, Dr Leonard Sax talks about his new book ' Boys Adrift: What's Really Behind the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys.'
- 08-04 New Canadian research dispels myth that cigarettes make teenage girls thinner
- 08-04 'Safer children in a digital world' : The report of the Byron Review
- 08-04 New research reveals the scale of junk food temptation
- 08-04 US teenagers and self image - happy and contented?
- 08-04 Young Australians need access to health services
- 08-04 Canadian teenagers spend average 30 hours TV and computer use per week
- 08-04 Another website ...
- 08-04 Areas of the brain associated with language work harder in girls than in boys during language tasks
- 08-04 One website ...
- 08-04 Healthy weight, healthy lives: Guidance for local areas. In England a third of children are either overweight or obese, and without action this could rise to almost two-thirds of children by 2050.
- 08-04 Fit for girls - A new drive in Scotland to get teenage girls involved in physical activity
- 08-04 Asthma attacks became less common in Canadian children
- 08-03 School-Based Obesity Interventions: A Literature Review
- 08-03 Eating breakfast helps US teenagers lose weight
- 08-03 ...very soon after that first cigarette, adolescents can experience a loss of autonomy over tobacco
- 08-03 Stopping teenagers getting pregnant - Teens and Toddlers programme
- 08-03 Adolescent Health Project
- 08-03 Ugandan schoolgirls dreams of education held back by poverty, pregnancy and lack of privacy
- 08-03 Sex and Drugs and Rock and... Health is a new website dedicated to using social marketing and edutainment (entertainment/education) to tackle health inequalities and promote health services
- 08-03 The support needs of families in Australia who have, as a family member, a young person who is misusing substances.
- 08-03 Two-thirds of states in the US have no or weak school nutrition standards to limit junk food
- 08-03 Child-specific food insecurity and overweight are not associated in a US sample of 10-to15 year old low-income youth
- 08-03 Cough and cold medicines misused by millions of US teenagers and young adults
- 08-03 Schools are having to provide moral guidance to pupils which should be given by their parents at home
- 08-03 Sex education and contraception do not reduce abortion rates
- 08-03 ...boys are motivated more by love and a desire to form real relationships with the girls they date'
- 08-03 Parents of overweight children often do not see their child as overly heavy and the children can have poor diet and exercise habits.
- 08-03 US study finds 1 in 4 teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease
- 08-03 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children in Scotland
- 08-03 Commonly held assumptions linking obesity in children to poor social conditions have been shattered by the results of a comprehensive Norfolk study
- 08-03 An average school child should eat less than half a teaspoon per day say the Irish Heart Foundation
- 08-03 Sex education and falling rates of unintended pregnancy
- 08-03 Three-year research project hopes to identify the reasons that many 11 to 15-year-old girls avoid sports.