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The latest research has found that young women regularly have more than 20 standard drinks during a good night out. This means they often blow in excess of $300 in an evening. It seems that changes in social and moral behaviour are behind young women drinking more. This soar in alcohol consumption by “girls that [...]
A new term is being bandied around by the experts, technostress relates to the rise in home based technology and the fall in family interaction. Every family seems to have an iphone, ipad, blackberry, computer, internet, laptop and video games, but the art of just spending quality family time hanging out together seems to be [...]
New calls have come from the Clinical Senate of WA (comprising of 75 elite health professionals) to raise the legal drinking age of young people to 21 years old. A position statement has been presented to Health Minister Kim Hames. The reasons sighted are the need to tackle binge drinking, increased risk taking behaviour by [...]
18% of US teen are obese* A recent study carried out in the US, Video game playing increases food intake in adolescents: a randomized crossover study, has found that trends in video game playing parallel obesity rates on a population basis. In the first such study of this kind, Canadian and Danish researchers tested their [...]
A recent study, Media use and Child Sleep: The Impact of Content, Timing, and Environment, has found that young children who engage with media by watching TV, using computers or playing video games after 7pm are more likely to have sleep issues such as repeated night waking, nightmares and daytime tiredness. It was also noted [...]
61% of year 12 girls have had sex A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald looked at the secret lives of teenager girls; what they get up to when they are out on the town. For many parents it must have been a stomach churning read. OK everyone was young once, but the lines [...]
A recent report, The Female Body’s Dysmorphic Epidemic: How Contemporary Women Are Coping With Our Aberrant Social Reality, looks at the growing trend in women to look emaciated as a fashion and beauty statement. According to the Oxford Dictionary Sarcopenia is defined as the loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength as a result of [...]
A recent study, Cardiovascular Events and Death in Children Exposed and Unexposed to ADHD Agents, compared the rate of severe cardiovascular events and death in children who use attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications versus nonusers. The study was a result of The American Heart Association raising concerns about the safety of these drugs. A cohort study [...]
ConductDisorders.com - a soft place to land for the battle weary parent. This website was setup as a forum in the mid 1990’s and it has grown since then into a site where parents and carers with children who have challanging behaviour can go and find support, help and resources. They are a group of parents [...]
A report published recently, Adult-Supervised Alcohol Use Doesn't Teach Adolescents to Drink Responsibly, has found that supervised use is associated with more alcohol-related harmful consequences in teens. "Kids need parents to be parents and not drinking buddies," said the study's lead researcher, Barbara J. McMorris, Ph.D., of the School of Nursing at the University of [...]
