Sentences with phrase «drinking by their adolescent»

We sought to determine the attitudes and behaviours of Irish parents towards drinking by their adolescent children.

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The report outlines how some sports and all energy drink products are being misused, discusses their ingredients, and provides guidance on their appropriate use, as in the case of sports drinks, and on how to decrease or eliminate consumption by children and adolescents, in the case of energy drinks.

While energy drinks have become extremely popular among adolescents and young adults in recent years, with many young athletes seeing them as a quick and easy way to maximize athletic performance, many groups, including the National Federation of High School Associations (NFHS), recommend against their use for re-hydration and warn that consumption may hurt not help athletic performance by causing side effects as bloating, abdominal cramping, diarrhea, light headedness, and impaired sleep.

Sports drinks should be consumed by children and adolescents only when there is a need for fluid, carbohydrate and electrolyte replenishment during and after prolonged, vigorous sports participation, while the ingestion of energy drinks should avoided completely, recommends the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in a clinical report published in the journal Pediatrics.1

Energy drinks pose potential health risks because of the stimulants they contain, and should never be consumed by children or adolescents.

In a widely quoted study by a British hospital, researchers provided an extra glass of cow's milk to adolescent girls» diets, comparing their growth to those who drank an average of just over one half cup per day.

To examine this link more closely, Swartzwelder and colleagues studied the sedative effects of alcohol by injecting the equivalent of about 20 drinks of alcohol into adolescent and adult rats of both genders and throughout the females» estrous cycle.

While researchers know that adolescent drinking is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors, much less is known about interactions between the two.

«Our study shows that adolescents can be influenced by their friends» online pictures to smoke or drink alcohol,» said Thomas W. Valente, Ph.D., professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the study's principal investigator.

Contacts: Shilo Rea / Carnegie Mellon University / 412-268-6094 / [email protected] Cristina Mestre / University of Pittsburgh / 412-586-9776 / [email protected] PITTSBURGH — Most teenagers who drink alcohol do so with their friends in social settings, but a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh reveals that a significant number of adolescents consume alcohol while they are alone.

The American Medical Association supports a ban on the marketing of high - caffeine beverages to anyone under age 18, and the American Academy of Pediatrics says energy drinks «should never be consumed by children or adolescents.»

We estimated the prevalence of each type of adolescent drinking behaviour, adolescent and parental background factors, and adult AUDs at each wave by sex.

We also estimated the prevalence of adult AUDs at each wave stratified by sex and level of adolescent drinking.

We found that rates of both smoking (ever) and drinking (one or more alcoholic drinks on a usual occasion) were higher among more consumerist Scottish early adolescents, as measured by a range of indicators.

Descriptive analyses predicting membership classification: TBI former (lifetime but not past 12 months; no current hazardous drinking), TBI recent (past 12 months; no current hazardous drinking), hazardous drinking (never had TBI), former TBI with co-occurring hazardous drinking (no recent TBI), recent TBI with co-occurring hazardous drinking and base category (no TBI or hazardous drinking) by demographics, among adolescents in grades 9 — 12, Ontario, Canada, 2013, n = 3130