Girls at the age of 14 skip breakfast and meals and consume more alcohol and drugs.This will cause very harmful effects to them and cause severe health problems.It may even lead to cancer which is a very harmful and dreadful disease.They only do this for excessive slimming purposes.
Independent research body,the schools health education unit,in US published results after questioning 17,743 pupils aged 19 yo 15 last year.Almost 60 percent of 2,651 girls aged 14 and 15 said they wanted to lose weight.Thirty percent admitted that they had not eaten breakfast that morning,and of those 36 percent had eaten nothing for lunch the previous day.Since 1996, teenage girls have drunk more spirits then their male peers.
Five percent of teenage girls knocked back five or more bottles in a week,24 percent drank atleast one alcopop and 19 percent had at least one glass of wine.four percent had five or more glasses of wine in a week
42 percent of girls compared to 40 percent of boys consumed alcohol in a week.And eight percent drank more than recommended levels.10 percent of girls aged 12 and 13 smoke along with 24 percent of older girls.The figure of boys were six percent and 14 percent respectively.six percent of boys and girls aged 12 and 13 have taken cannabis and up to 17 percent of 14 to 15 year old mixed alcohol and drugs.Teenage girls were also most likely to take painkillers.
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