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For Young Adults, Staying Healthy Not Easy |
| Section: LIFE / YOUTH |
| Author: Joyce Howard Price and Kathleen Maloney-Dunn |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 2,460 Words, 16,249 Characters |
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These two articles focus on health issues related to teens and young adults.
Rise and Shine? Students go off to school too tired to learn
Kathleen Maloney-Dunn
Sixteen-year-old Maddy Gunter of Great Falls pries herself out of bed weekday mornings at 5:15 to board her 6 a.m. school bus. The bus drops her at Fairfax County's Langley High School in Virginia at 6:50 a.m., and for the next half-hour before classes begin, she dozes with batches of other drowsy students lining the halls.
"Most of my friends are zombies the first half of the day; we're all on autopilot," Maddy says. Though she usually goes to bed by midnight, following three hours with the cross-country team and hours of homework, many of her classmates go to bed even later. Maddy reports a ma...
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...where a lot of these bad health habits are being picked up," Harris said.
She said she is confident that some behaviors, such as binge drinking, will abate as young adults obtain permanent jobs, marry and settle down. But she said she was concerned that harmful behaviors such as not exercising, gaining weight and smoking may linger or increase.
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