Mar/090
Adolescents and risk obesity. Self-esteem plays a key role
Research published on the Archives of Pediatric Medicine and conducted by the Department of Health of New York has established a clear correlation between low self-esteem in young girls and the risk of becoming obese. A study that involved 4400 girls aged 12 to 18 years has shown that adolescents who perceive themselves as unpopular were 69% more likely to become obese than those who perceive themselves as loved and accepted by their peers. It has long known the relationship between obesity and social factors and emotional, but this research, as stated goutham Rao, director of the Center for obesity child hospital in Pittsburgh, has the merit of placing in connection with this disorder lack self-esteem.
But not all experts have enthusiastically welcomed the results of research in New York. Dr. Judith Myers-Walls of Purdue University, for example, believes that it is possible to determine whether the low self-esteem to induce young people to eat more and thus to gain weight or whether instead the very fact of being overweight cause collapse in their self-esteem. In any case, the adolescent obesity is a problem that has wide spread in all industrialized countries and which is necessary to promptly remedy. Only in Italy, as noted Erio Ziglio, head of the WHO Venice, are obese 20% of children between thirteen and seventeen.
The solution can be sought only in the prescription of a slimming diet; you need it, say experts, raising awareness among young people towards greater awareness of themselves and towards adopting a healthier lifestyle. About then the undeniable influence of social and emotional adolescent obesity, Adina Lemeshow, one of the teenagers who participated in the study then became a researcher at the Department of Health in New York, proposes implementing prevention programs that focus too Development, by boys, social skills that help them meet the challenges of daily life requires and that may seem insurmountable at a delicate stage of life such as adolescence.
Feb/090
Sex? They did our first parents!
A recent survey conducted through a questionnaire published by the site www.ambulatorio.com, it emerged that 13% of Italian teenagers making love for the first time in 14 years.
However, the average of first sexual intercourse is around 17 years.
To conduct the survey Italo Farnetani, a pediatrician and a contract professor at the ‘University of Milan-Bicocca.
Analyzing a sample of 2500 responses, Farnetani has compared the sexual behavior of young Italians with those of their parents. The result seems to go against common belief.
Age of first time, from generation to generation, it would in fact be increased rather than decreased.
The first time occurs for the majority of today’s young people between 16 and 18 years, while the parents had done before. 20% of parents surveyed had her first sexual experience at age 14, compared to 13% of children of new generations.
The research showed that the major concern of parents with adolescent children is that of pregnancies unwanted.
Parents want their children to use contraceptives and 53% of mothers and fathers are not against the use of morning-after pill.
In contrast, 85, 7% of specialists are against any provision for girls, being a veritable bombardment of hormones, and because of numerous drawbacks.
How about Abroad? A study on sexual behavior conducted by WHO and involving 59 countries around the world, it was found that the age of first sexual experience is not at all down, but would become more stable.
The average calculated on a global scale of the first sexual intercourse is between 15 and 19 years.
If this is true globally, locally you notice many differences.
For example, in East West and Central Africa and South Asia, where young people tend to marry very early age of first time for women tends to be lower than in Latin American countries. Always in these countries, males tend to have sexual relations later than women. In Italy the age of the first ratio is 17.5 years for boys and 18.5 for girls.
To substantially increase the tendency to have sexual relations before marriage, and growth that seems to be determined by the fact that the age of marriage tends to move ever further.