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June 19th, 2007

Obvious Research Findings: “Sex, drugs and dating make teens feel older”

This is reminiscent of the report earlier this year that teens and college students consume alcohol, and it’s bad for them. Again, people, I would have told you this for free instead of making you spend Canadian taxpayer money to finance a full-scale scientific study.
Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, with assistance from […]

By Kristen King -- 1 comment

March 1st, 2007

Is It Time to Say Goodbye to Hooking Up?

Laura Sessions Stepp seems to think so, and it’s not a very popular opinion. Her book Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both, released on February 15, 2007, is unexpectedly controversial. The focus? The emotional and psychological damaged caused by women’s engagement in casual sex encounters.
And we’re […]

By Kristen King -- 8 comments

January 22nd, 2007

Magazines Associated with Unhealthy Dieting in Teen Girls

The results are in: Teen girls who read magazines with articles about diet and weight loss are considerably more likely to use unhealthy dieting practices (such as purging, abusing laxatives) both as teens and as adults.
Reports WebMD,
The girls who had most often read magazine articles about dieting and weight loss five years earlier were the […]

By Kristen King -- 3 comments