Friday, August 20, 2010

Headaches In Teens Associated With Unhealthy Lifestyle

Headaches And Unhealthy Lifestyle
According to the article below, youngsters who are overweight, get little exercise or who smoke, were 3.4 times more likely to have frequent headaches than those with no negative lifestyle factors. It really makes you think!


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Teenagers with unhealthy lifestyles suffer three times as many headaches
August 19, 2010 at 4:08 AM
Youngsters who are overweight, get little exercise or who smoke, were 3.4 times more likely to have frequent headaches than those with no "negative lifestyle factors".

Of those with all three negative lifestyle factors, more than half – 55 per cent – had frequent headaches, compared to just a quarter of those with healthier behaviours.

Those with two of the three negative factors were 1.8 times more likely to have frequent headaches.

Overweight teenagers were 40 per cent more likely to have frequent headaches than those with no negative factors.

Teens who smoked were 50 per cent more likely to have frequent headaches, and teens who exercised less than twice a week were 20 per cent more likely to have frequent headaches than those who exercised at least twice a week and had no other negative factor   Read More






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