The Checkup Archive: Teens
Ranch dressing rules
For better or worse, ranch dressing is the most popular salad dressing in America. As I write in this week's "Eat, Drink and Be Healthy" column, it has overtaken Italian dressing as our dressing of choice, both at the store and at restaurants.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| March 1, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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Dietary Guidelines, Family Health, Nutrition and Fitness, Obesity, School Nutrition, Teens
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Study warns against energy drinks for kids, teens
A study in Monday's edition of the journal Pediatrics spells out everything you need to know about energy drinks, particularly the risks they pose to the young people who are most inclined to use them. Read it, and you'll never look at those drinks as benign products again.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| February 15, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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Cardiovascular Health, Dietary supplements, Family Health, Kids' health, Nutrition and Fitness, Sleep, Teens, heart failure
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On energy drinks, a voice of caution -- and reason
The thing I most appreciate about this JAMA editorial is its clear-headed presentation of information without an accompanying demand for government regulation. Its stance seems to be that the public (and the health professionals who advise the public) needs to be aware of the potential risks of energy drinks -- not that people shouldn't be allowed to enjoy energy drinks if they so choose. And there is, thankfully, no mention of an energy-drink tax.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| February 10, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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Alcohol and Drugs, FDA, Family Health, Kids' health, Parenting, Pregnancy, Teens
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Teen birth rate hits historic low
The long decline in teen births, which had stalled for two years, seems to be back on track, federal health officials announced Wednesday.
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Rob Stein
| February 2, 2011; 11:30 AM ET |
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Family Health, Kids' health, Motherhood, Parenting, Pregnancy, Reproductive Health, STDs, Sex, Teens, Women's Health
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Modern Family: When kids walk in during sex
I cannot believe that the blogosphere is not buzzing itself silly about last night's (hilarious) episode of Modern Family, which raised the all-important question: What should parents do if their kids walk in on them during sex?
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| January 20, 2011; 1:29 PM ET |
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Family Health, Kids' health, Life's Big Questions, Parenting, Psychology, Reproductive Health, Sex, Teens
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Some young adults with STDs say they've never had sex
Still, the authors say, the findings suggest that physicians treating teens and young adults should perhaps use lab tests to screen all those patients for STDs, as screening only those that report they've been sexually active may lead to many cases going undiagnosed and untreated -- and ready to spread to others.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| January 3, 2011; 8:15 AM ET |
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Reproductive Health, STDs, Sex, Teens
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