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By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, Sept. 27 (HealthDay News) — There is a popular misconception that because sports drinks and other noncarbonated beverages are associated with physical activity they must be healthy, University of Texas researchers report.
In a study of more than 15,000 middle and high school students throughout Texas, researchers found that kids who drank sugar-sweetened beverages, including sports drinks, were more likely than kids who didn’t to eat unhealthy foods and watch more TV than those who did not. However, students who drank sports beverages were more likely than soda drinkers to exercise and consume fruits, vegetables and milk — suggesting they viewed sports drinks as healthy.
“Adolescents and their parents need to be educated that consumption of large amounts of flavored and sports beverages is not consistent with a healthy lifestyle,” said lead researcher Nalini Ranjit, an assistant professor of health promotion and behavioral sciences at the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Austin.
“Adolescents who engage in an otherwise reasonably healthy lifestyle with lots of physical activity and a healthy diet still consume large amounts of sugar-sweetened beverages in the form of flavored and sports beverages,” she added. “We believe that this is due to successful marketing that has led consumers to see these beverages as healthy.”
The report is published in the Sept. 27 online edition of Pediatrics.
For the study, Ranjit’s team collected data on 15,283 middle and high school students throughout Texas. Of these students, 22 percent of the boys and 17 percent of the girls were obese.
Although regular soda consumption has been linked to weight gain, the researchers found that 83 percent of boys and 78 percent of girls had consumed one or more sugar-sweetened beverages the previous day, and 28 percent reported drinking three or more sodas or sports drinks a day.
The researchers looked at consumption of sodas and noncarbonated flavored and sports beverages and their association with eating unhealthy foods like sugary desserts, fried meats and fried snacks like chips and French fries. They also looked at how these drinks were associated with consumption of healthy foods like vegetables, fruit and milk.
In addition, they examined the association of these drinks with physical activity and participation in sports and also with sedentary activities, such as watching TV, using the computer and playing video games.
In this study of 8th and 11th grade students in Texas, drinking sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with unhealthy diet and physical activity behaviors like consuming fried meats and chips, Ranjit said. Kids who drank sugar-sweetened beverages, including sports drinks, were more likely to engage in sedentary behaviors like watching TV, using the computer and playing video games. Those who drank soda were also less likely to participate in organized sports, school PE or vigorous physical activity, and to drink less milk and eat less fruits and vegetables than those who did not.
“However, the most interesting finding was that students who drink flavored and sports beverages such as punch, Koolaid and Gatorade are also more likely to engage in higher levels of physical activity as well as consume fruits, vegetables and milk. This association was not seen with children who drink regular soda,” she said.
Samantha Heller, a dietitian, nutritionist, exercise physiologist and clinical nutrition coordinator at the Center for Cancer Care at Griffin Hospital, in Derby, Conn., commented that “there is confusion among kids and adults as to when consuming sweetened beverages is appropriate.”
“Sports drinks, for example, are important for young athletes who are training or competing at intense levels or exercising in the heat. But drinking sports drinks and other sweetened drinks at the computer or with lunch just adds nonnutritive calories and can pack on pounds,” she added.
Nonetheless, these drinks are marketed as healthy alternatives to soda, Heller said.
“Some have added vitamins, antioxidants or herbs and the front label shouts out claims that this drink can boost the immune system, increase metabolism or fight disease,” she said. “It is understandable that people are drinking them in place of soda and water believing they are healthy. For most of us, most of the time, plain water is the best way to maintain hydration.”
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By Kurtis Hiatt
Fatal Teen Car Crashes Decrease, CDC Reports
The number of 16- and 17-year-olds killed in car crashes decreased by roughly a third over a five-year span, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2004, 2,230 teens of that age group were involved in fatal crashes, which by the end of 2008 had dropped to 1,437. Male teens accounted for 65 percent of all deaths over the five year study period, while females accounted for 35 percent; New York and New Jersey had the lowest rate of fatal crashes, while Wyoming had the highest.
Although fatal teen crashes have declined since 1996, they remain the leading cause of death among teenagers in the United States. “This is a call to action to teen drivers, parents and communities,” CDC Director Thomas Frieden said in a press release. “It’s not right that teens would lose their lives on U.S. roads when there are proven methods for helping teens be safer drivers,” like graduated driver licensing programs (which restrict when teens can drive and who they can transport) and parental involvement.
Indeed, parents can help teens stay safe behind the wheel—even with one simple trick: not giving teens a car they consider their own, U.S. News contributor Nancy Shute wrote last year.
From: Parents Keep Teen Drivers Safe When They Control the Car Keys
Teenagers who reported they were the main person driving a vehicle, rather than sharing it with other family members, were more than twice as likely to be involved in a recent crash. One in four drivers with primary access to a car had had an accident while driving in 2009, compared with 1 in 10 for shared access. That means 25 percent of the kids driving their “own” cars had at least one accident in 2009! The teens with their own car also were more likely to use a cellphone while driving (78 percent, compared with 55 percent) and to speed (70 percent vs. 54 percent). These figures come from a survey of 2,167 teenagers by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. It is said to be the first survey to look at whether having primary access to a car affects safety for teenage drivers. It was published in Pediatrics.
What makes driving a family car safer? Maybe it’s as simple as knowing that it’s the fam’s car. I vividly remember my horror when I backed into a car in the high school parking lot and crumpled the fender of the family Volkswagen. I’m sure the realization that it wasn’t “my” car made me more contrite—and more careful, at least for a while.
Many parents are thrilled when their teenager is finally driving, and many teens need to drive themselves to school or work. As a result, it’s easy for parents to think that a new driver needs a car. Indeed, the researchers found that 70 percent of the teenagers said that they had their “own” car. This is dangerous, the researchers say, and parents should consider delaying giving a child a car at least until the teenager has been driving for a year.
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Teens are making the news all the time–the good things they do, and the bad. Here’s a sampling of we found in just one week. Do you know of or have you read about other newsworthy teens? Tell us about them in Submit Your Own. 
10. Andrew Herm, of Denver, filed a lawsuit in a U.S. District Court to get a federal judge to throw out the city law that orders juveniles to be home by 11 p.m. on school nights and by midnight on Friday and Saturday nights. Check out Curfew.org for info about how teens and parents are fighting curfews nationwide.
9. An unidentified Palestinian teenager died Sunday, October 21, 2001, from wounds he sustained last month in the ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel.
8. Teens in a Friendswood High School English class in Texas have put together a book of poetry called The Day America Lost Her Innocence. They are selling the book for $10. Proceeds will go to the Families of Freedom scholarship fund. Click here or call (281) 482-3413 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (281) 482-3413 end_of_the_skype_highlighting for more info.
7. On October 8, a Palestinian high school senior blew himself up near an Israeli car and became the 100th suicide bomber sent to attack Israel since 1993. (Israeli statistics indicate most suicide bombers are under 23–and exceptionally well educated.)
6. Australia’s Olympic swimming champion 18-year-old Ian “Thorpedo” Thorpe is on his way to making megabucks. He just signed a 3-year deal with a Japanese TV station, a sportswear contract with Adidas and another with Gaffney International–all worth $5 million.
5. A 15-year-old French teen was placed under investigation after he allegedly organized a demonstration at the Lezay-Marnesia school in Strasbourg, in eastern France. About 100 students gathered in the courtyard, burned a pair of red-white-and-blue underwear and cried out “Long live (Osama) bin Laden, down with the Americans.” The judge ordered the student to remain under the surveillance of a teacher.
4. Nicholas Sentel Rice, 16, of Spartanburg, North Carolina and Jarrod Sullivan, 17, were just two teens who were killed on Friday October 19–both were victims of gun violence.
3. Nineteen-year-old soccer superstar Landon Donavan, of the San Jose Earthquakes, helped his team win their first MLS Cup on Sunday, October 21.
2. Britney Payton, a junior at Barrington High School (just outside of Chicago) and daughter of the late football star Walter Payton began speaking last week to get teens interested in organ donation. Her father died of a cancer-related illness in 1999.
1. Sixteen-year-old Brenton Butler, an African American, is suing the Jacksonville, Florida, police department for $8.5 million. Butler claims he was a victim of racial profiling and was beaten, threatened and intimidated into confessing to the murder of a Georgia tourist.
–By Heather Keets Wright
The stories of teens getting into trouble on or through Facebook seem to be getting more numerous by the day. In the past week, we’ve seen reports of teens having the police called on them for a brawl that broke out at a party advertised on Facebook, and others that were arrested after posting videos of their criminal activity on the popular social network. Yet another teen has been arrested for harassing another user through Facebook. What’s gotten into teenagers these days? 
Their actions are nothing new. The platform for sharing their stories, however, is landing some teens in some very hot water. In a now familiar scenario, the police were called to a party that became rowdy when hundreds of teenagers tried to crash an event that was posted on Facebook, according to The Daily Mail. This is the latest in a string
of similar situations in the UK where a private party advertised on Facebook reached the masses and led to dangerous fall-outs resulting in injuries and property damages.
The Hartford Courant also reports that 18-year-old Ian Guilfoil in Newtown, Connecticut has been charged with three felony counts of risk of injury to a minor and misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment and reckless driving after he posted a video of himself performing these criminal acts. How did Guilfoil get caught up? A parent saw the video on Facebook and called the police.
Guilfoil isn’t the only Newtown teen that has been arrested due to their Facebook activity. A 15-year-old girl was charged Monday with harassment for allegedly threatening her fellow student via Facebook.
Have we learned nothing from MySpace, folks?
With all the cool features and games and applications to be found on social networking platforms like Facebook, it’s easy to forget that such online sites are in fact ways in which to carry out social acts, many of which easily mimic activity we see in the offline world. So seeing teens act in such a manner isn’t necessarily surprising, it’s just too easy to avoid. I was once a stupid teen on social networks, and have admittedly learned my lesson on what to share and what not to share. And given today’s privacy options (especially on Facebook) there’s even fewer excuses for the teens of today.
The takeaways (teens, pay attention):
1. Keep private party advertisements private. Granted, it’s easy enough for another user to share your private invite with a few hundred of their closest friends, but try to instill a sense of exclusivity at private parties. And get your parents to hire security.
2. Don’t post illegal activity on the web. Matter of fact, don’t video tape yourself in the act of performing criminal acts. But if you must video tape yourself doing things that could get you arrested, don’t post it on a social network where sharing media across one’s social graph is par for the course.
3. Don’t harass other people via a social network. It’s highly traceable, even with all the anonymity of the web!
Such moments of lecturing from an ex-teen may seem redundant, but it could become a growing problem for Facebook. The social network has managed to avoid many of the teen-related stigmas that have plagued MySpace for the past couple of years. But with Facebook having opened its platform to all users , coupled with the extreme growth in traffic and popularity, Facebook may be stuck with this rap until the next fad comes along and takes the plight of overly-public teens with it.
Teenagers do crazy things, and the chemistry of their brains might explain why.
In a new study, scientists found that the adolescent brain is extra sensitive to the rewarding signals it gets when something better than expected happens. The discovery might help explain why teens take risks that don’t seem worth it to adults — from driving too fast to experimenting with drugs.
“Teenagers seek out these sorts of rewarding experiences, and this provides a little explanation for that,” said Russell Poldrack, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Texas, Austin. “In the long run, it may help us understand how addictions start and develop.”
To zero in on the neuroscience behind risk-taking behavior in adolescents, Poldrack and colleagues focused on a concept called prediction error, which describes the difference between what a person expects to happen and what actually happens.
If you anticipate a rich sip of full-bodied espresso, for example, but you end up gulping weak, watery, and burnt coffee, that’s a negative prediction error. If you expect nothing from a friend for your birthday but he gives you $20, that’s a positive error — far better than expected.
To test the brain’s reaction to positive prediction errors at different stages of life, the scientists enlisted 45 people, ranging in age from 8 to 30. Each participant was shown a series of abstract kaleidoscopic images and challenged to categorize the figures as logos belonging to one of two fictional colleges.
When they got an answer right, participants earned a small amount of money — between five cents and a quarter — and they all gradually learned which logos went with which colleges and which ones were worth more than others. There were a few twists, though: Sometimes, an answer that should’ve been correct was judged as wrong. Sometimes, a wrong answer was rewarded as a correct one. And sometimes, the reward was larger or smaller than the exercise indicated it should be.
With a mathematical model, the researchers were able to determine how much money each person expected to get with each answer and compare that with what they actually received. At the same time, fMRI’s showed what was happening in the brain.
Previous research has shown a surge of activity in a brain region called the ventral striatum when reality exceeds a person’s expectations. In the new study, just published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the region’s response was highest in participants between 14 and 19 years old when they received more money than anticipated.
Brain activity in the ventral striatum is related to the release of dopamine, a nerve-signaling molecule that helps the brain process rewards and can be involved in addictions. With more dopamine flowing, a teenager is likely to feel that a risky behavior — when it ends well — is so much more rewarding than it might seem to a child or adult.
So, for example, the social rewards of staying out past curfew might outweigh the likelihood of getting in trouble for an adolescent. And the physical pleasure of getting drunk might outweigh the dangers, including the next day’s hangover.
Besides providing insight into how addictions might begin in adolescence, the new study might help parents channel their teens into more positive risk-taking activities, like playing sports or acting in school plays, suggested Adriana Galvan, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
“Adolescents are uniquely sensitive to the uncertainty in the world,” Galvan said. “Perhaps their willingness to engage in uncertainty is driven by the potential rewards that might result from that uncertainty. For them, the rewards loom so much bigger than the potential negatives.”
