News archive - June 2013

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Teens pick up numerous unhealthy habits in high school

Waterloo — Kids enter Grade 9 living a fairly healthy lifestyle but by graduation they pick up enough bad habits to be at a significantly higher risk for chronic diseases, a University of Waterloo study has found.

Smoking, marijuana use, binge drinking and physical inactivity skyrocket over the four years of high school.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

High school years hard on adolescent health, with spikes in drinking, smoking and drug use: Canada study

High school may improve young people’s minds, but it does the opposite for their bodies.

A new study out of the University of Waterloo shows Canadian students in Grade 12 are in worse health than their younger high school peers.

The research, published in the latest issue of the journal BioMed Central (BMC) Public Health, found that by the time students reach senior year, they’re at a significantly increased risk for chronic diseases such as diabetes and lung cancer.