Sentences with phrase «than younger adults do»

Although there are no notable differences between the rates of obesity among men and women, adults who are middle - aged and older have higher rates of obesity than younger adults do.

Older adults often take longer to make a decision than young adults do.

Not exact matches

Young adults today, as a group, have it tougher than previous generations did when starting out.

And when young adults do sign the deed, their purchase price is now substantially more, relative to their income, than it was decades ago.

Older adults (aged ≥ 51 y) obtained a significantly greater proportion of added sugars from stores than did younger adults.

Culturally, young adults have increasingly come to see marriage as a «capstone» rather than a «cornerstone» — that is, something they do after they have all their other ducks in a row, rather than a foundation for launching into adulthood and parenthood.

Younger men appear to watch less than any other adult group, watching only slightly more adult religious programs than do children.

While the study's primary report did not explore religion, some additional analysis focusing on sexual activity and religious identification yielded this result: 80 percent of unmarried evangelical young adults (18 to 29) said that they have had sex - slightly less than 88 percent of unmarried adults, according to the teen pregnancy prevention organization.

Perhaps it is true that the media — especially television — have prompted many young adults to take a more nonchalant approach to sports than their parents did, but I for one have been an avid fan since the age of four.

I am horrified by the obesity problem among young children (and adults, too), which is a far more dangerous and a far - larger problem than women rock climbing while pregnant or parents rock climbing with a child on their back (or even pregnant women drinking or doing drugs).

Sometimes they do better with kids who are younger than they are because the younger kids will adapt to them, and sometimes they'll do well with adults because adults can adapt to them.

Diluted infant formula contains more water than it should, and while older children and adults usually don't have to worry about drinking too much water, parents do need to monitor the water intake of newborns and very young babies.

Seventy - two percent of the registered voters surveyed said young adults have «less opportunity to be successful» on the Island than they did in 1991.

An advantage among new enrollees doesn't necessarily translate into an advantage among actual voters for Democrats, as young adults tend to be both more liberal and less likely to vote than their older neighbors, but the current trend doesn't appear to be driven by an large number of 18 year olds who filled out registration forms to please their parents and have no intention of actually voting.

If you're a transgender young adult who's been evicted from your home by your own parents, going into a single adult shelter could do more harm than good.

Young adults who use electronic cigarettes are more than four times as likely to begin smoking tobacco cigarettes within 18 months as their peers who do not vape, according to new University of Pittsburgh research.

People with very mild Alzheimer's disease did worse overall on the task than those in the healthy aging group, who, in turn, did worse than a group of young adults.

But it could also be that the effect doesn't emerge for older adults because they're actually better than young adults at correcting low - confidence errors.

WHY did the 2009 swine flu pandemic kill so many more young adults than children?

Young children tend to forget events more rapidly than adults do because they lack the strong neural processes required to bring together all the pieces of information that go into a complex autobiographical memory, she explains.

Because more than 63 % of the collisions involved calves and subadults, the scientists conclude that these younger animals are particularly susceptible to being struck, most likely because they spend more time at the surface to breathe than do adults.

Scientists have known for years that the neurons in adult rats, which are significant but fewer in numbers than during puberty, could be saved with learning, but they did not know if this would be the case for young rats that produce two to four times more neurons than adult animals.

«Don't let youth trip you; more than 50 percent of young adults fall, trip.»

These trends signal that over time, younger generations will likely experience more exposure to Latino peers than adults do, Owens said.

Interestingly, sleeping pills don't provide the deep sleep that's needed to counteract this decline, so researchers are now questioning why older adults, who typically spend less time in deep sleep than younger ones, simply aren't getting the rest they need.

That's the finding of Canadian researchers who analyzed muscle samples from young adults with and without type 1 diabetes who did more than the weekly amount of exercise recommended by Diabetes Canada.

Pets improve relationships: One study found that young adults with a deep bond to their pets felt more connected in their relationships and communities than those who didn't.

First, older skin does not convert as much sunlight into vitamin D. Second, older individuals have a harder time converting vitamin D into usable vitamin D. Lastly, older adults typically spend more time indoors than younger people (although not always).

I find that I need more encouragement as a mom than I did as a teen or a young adult.

A smaller, University of Pittsburgh study published Sept. 20 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that young adults who paired fitness trackers with diet and physical activity actually lost fewer pounds after two years than a similar group who didn't use the devices.

Dating but no butterflies percent of relationships, while older boys dating younger girls make up Do you feel like you need to have a beautiful woman on your arm to be at ease I wouldnt date anyone younger than 25 because, though adult, they..

Not only do current policies in many organizations actively discourage workplace romance (thus eliminating what may be, for many individuals, the single largest pool in which they might seek partners), but older adults may also have less time for socializing outside of work hours than do younger adults who have not yet entered the workforce full - time (Brym & Lenton, 2001).

Older adults may thus find the sheer volume of the user base, the speed, and the convenience of use associated with online personals ads appealing to a greater extent than do younger persons.

Against this experiential backdrop, individuals in older cohorts may find the notion of turning to computers and the Internet to find romance rather more unconventional and counternormative than do today's younger adults.

This pattern of results — and the positive and significant (albeit small) correlation between age and the ratio of time engaged in online dating activity to total time online — suggests that the older adults in our sample focused proportionally more of their time online on efforts to establish romance than did their younger counterparts.

When you're young and foolish, you are more likely than adults to drink behind the wheel, which makes it credible that some will die — as five teens do in a violent collision with a truck that leaves all dead, including the town reverend's only son.

Considering that Smith claims that he made this film for teen girls, not for one moment does Yoga Hosers feel like anything other than a mid-40s writer / director shaking his fist at a younger phone - desperate generation, making inside jokes for the adults in the audience and lambasting the critics that have wronged him in the past.

Dunst's performance here is hardly different than those she would portray in modern - day films for young adults, and although Coppola's dialogue does mostly avoid obvious modern catchphrases and slang, all of the actors speak in their own native dialects, with a cast blended with mostly American and British actors.

Based on Veronica Roth's series of young adult novels, Allegiant — like its predecessors — is a movie you want to like more than you actually do.

It really doesn't have to do with age, cause even a young teen can be far more mature than an adult.

Both provide more than capable performances, and are joined by Romola Garai as the young - adult Briony who suffers through repentance for what she has done.

But then it could be argued that the hoops action is almost incidental in this fact - based story, for the title character, Richmond High School (though actually filmed at my alma mater, Long Beach Polytechnic High School, which somehow became the go - to ghetto high school filming location after I graduated) basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), is less concerned with how his young charges fare on the court than they do in the classroom and, ultimately, in the game of adult life.

Similarly, young people with small support networks, who don't have a large number of adults and other people who they can rely on, who they feel close to... they have worse health problems, they are much more likely to be bullied at school [and they have a] much lower view of their whole lives than young people with larger support networks.

«Not only does the Extreme Read expose a math teacher, for example, to a young adult novel he or she would not typically have used in the classroom, but it allows students to see teachers and adults other than their language arts teacher as readers,» she added.

Instead, Weissbourd's initial study showed how many young adults are eager to have monogamous relationships, and view cheating on a partner as the worst thing you can do morally — even worse than drunk driving.

Young adults who I've had the pleasure of teaching years ago have come back to say that I was a positive influence on their lives It doesn't get any better than that.

Young adults who had participated in sports activities when they were in high school report higher levels of civic engagement than those who did not participate, according to a study from the University of Maryland College Park.

The research only looks at adults» usage of text - messaging, but it does find that younger adults are much more active texters than older age groups.

I agree with her that her transgressions as a young woman are more forgiveable than what she did as a mature adult.

Labeled by some as the «Libyan Kite Runner», In The Country of Men does share some similarities with Khaled Hosseini's runaway bestseller in that both are about young boys growing up in countries experiencing political implosion, with the result that their boy - sized mistakes take on adult - sized consequences; but Matar's prose is leaner than Hosseini's, and his themes share more with Ian McEwan's Atonement than with The Kite Runner.