Adolescent Prone to Osteoporosis

Adolescent Prone to Osteoporosis

Adolescent have a lifestyle that is prone to osteoporosis or bone disease. Why it could happen? Though osteoporosis is generally attacked parents with age above 50 years.

Osteoporosis is a disorder with a character density or bone mass density decreases due to an interruption in the structure of bone tissue, causing bones to become brittle and facilitate the occurrence of fractures, especially in the pelvic area, spine, and arms.

Osteoporosis is usually rare or no symptoms at all, although the radiological reduction of bone mass density of about 30% will be visible. The initial symptoms of osteoporosis are generally characterized by pain, especially in the back area, followed by fractures to the spine causing extreme pain.

Lifestyle adopted by the ABG is currently very worried about it. Lifestyle of those who want to trim, like smoking, alcohol consumption, and are reluctant to exposure to the sun can increase your risk of osteoporosis.

More and Early Age Child Reaches Puberty

Puberty

A child will show early signs of puberty, such as voice that began to change, grow hair on certain areas and breasts enlarged to a girl. For a girl, the signs that usually appear at age 10 years and above and in boys, usually slower, ie at the age of 11 years and over.

But this time, the trend of children to reach puberty occurs at an increasingly early age, some girls have experienced puberty at the age of the newly reached 7 years. And this sometimes can make them become confused and difficult to deal with these new circumstances.

Why would a child likely to experience at the age of puberty earlier? The experts at the Swedish Institute of Karonlinska try to seek answers from many different angles. Previously, there were several theories proposed by experts to answer these questions. Currently 12 European expert team was researching another three years and is expected to be the root of the problem and finding the most likely cause of this problem.

Metabolic Syndrome in Adolescents

Metabolic Syndrome

The term metabolic syndrome began aggressively buzzed in recent years. This is because increasing the people who are overweight (obesity). Someone is said to have metabolic syndrome if there is at least 3 following signs of high blood triglycerides, high blood sugar levels, HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol) is low in the blood, high blood pressure and a large waist circumference.

Adolescents who experience excessive weight and obesity, a third was apparently suffering from metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome will improve a person's risk for heart disease and diabetes mellitus (diabetes).

From the data obtained in 1988 until 1994, a total of 2000 adolescents aged between 12 to 19 years in America, looks 63% found at least one sign of metabolic syndrome and 9% of which were included in the category of metabolic syndrome. And what about the youth in Indonesia? Viewing the current developments, where the trend of Indonesian youth are experiencing increasing obesity, metabolic syndrome is of course already suffered too much. Just how big presentasenya unknown.

Malnutrition Affect Child Behavior

Malnutrition

Poor nutrition as a child would be a bad influence on a child's physical health. But it was not only on his physical problems, but also can cause children to have behavior problems when he was a teenager.

Thus as seen from a study of approximately 1600 children in the islands of Mauritius, who suffered malnutrition, lack of protein, minerals zinc, iron and vitamin B, when they were three years old. And after the age of 8, 11 and 17 years, they tend to have behavior problems vary.

These children tend to behave badly in school, fighting, breaking school rules and other behavioral problems when they grow up. They generally have a level of intelligence (IQ) is lower, which is a sign of deficit or deficiency of the neuro-cognitive brain due to malnutrition and this may be the cause of problem behavior.

Other factors, such as poor family backgrounds, poor homes and parents' education levels are low, apparently not related to their behavioral problems.

Sex On Teen

Sex On Teen

Sexual behavior are all forms of behavior motivated by sexual desire, whether carried out with the opposite sex or same-sex.

The forms of this behavior varied, ranging from feeling interested, dating, making out to having sex. Anyone who becomes a sex object? Can people (both similar and opposite sex), people in a fantasy, or self.

Some of this behavior has no impact, especially when no physical impact to the person concerned or the social environment. But some sexual behaviors (conducted prior to the time) it can have very serious psychological impact. For example it can lead to guilt, depression, anger, and gresi. While the impact of psychosocial arising from sexual behavior among others, mental tension and confusion over the social role that the sudden change, for example in the case of teenagers who become pregnant out of wedlock.

1. Pressure from the people who denounce and reject these circumstances.

2. Disturbance of the relevant health

3. Risk of fetal abnormalities and high infant mortality rates.

4. Dropout rate of teen pregnancy is also very high. This caused embarrassment for adolescents and their families, and school refusal to accept any student who was pregnant out of wedlock.

5. Economic issues also play a role and make this problem become more complicated and complex.