Teenage Pregnancy

According to surveys, most UK teenagers would avoid pregnancy, and many teenage pregnancies are a mistake. Nevertheless, around 56,000 babies are born to teenage mothers in the UK every year.
For some teenagers, becoming a parent may not be a problem. Yet there are many teenagers who wish they had waited until they were older. Becoming a parent can be a scary, life-changing situation. It can put an end to school days or job plans, and teenage parents may not be ready or experienced enough to look after a child.

Rates of teenage pregnancy vary within the UK too and according to the Family Policy Studies Centre, women in poor inner city areas are six times more likely to get pregnant by the time they are 20 than in wealthier areas.
In 1999, the UK government announced plans to halve the rate of teenage pregnancy by 2010. Reproductive health care is seen as an important way of reaching this target without treating pregnant teenagers as bad or stupid. Instead, with effective reproductive health care, young people can learn the different choices available to prevent pregnancy if they choose to, and teenage parents can receive the support that they need.

Teenagers Worries about a pregnancy they have neither planned nor expected, many young women are forced to drop out of school or give up their jobs. Few know where to go for support.
Young men need support too yet their needs are often overlooked by family planning services. Nevertheless, young men need to learn to take responsibility for their sexual activity, whether to avoid STIs or to understand their roles as fathers.
Some projects are trying to give a real voice to young people, and find ways to help them on their own terms.

http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.more.famplan.html

Drama Motel: Smoking

Drama Motel: Smoking

What are Junk foods

Junk food is a term describing food that is perceived to be unhealthy or having poor nutritional value, according to Food Standards Agency. Junk food typically contains high levels of fat, salt or sugar and numerous food additives such as monosodium glutamate and tartrazine; at the same time, it is lacking in proteins, vitamins and fiber, among others. It is popular with suppliers because it is relatively cheap to manufacture, has a long shelf life and may not require refrigeration. It is popular with consumers because it is easy to purchase, requires little or no preparation, is convenient to consume and has lots of flavor. Consumption of junk food is associated with obesity, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and dental cavities. There is also concern about the targeting of marketing at children.
fast food outlets such as hamburgers, and french fries supplied by companies such as McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut are often perceived as junk food whereas the same meals supplied by more up-market outlets such as Pizza Express or Nando's are not despite often having the same or worse nutritional content. Other foods such as Foie Gras, roast potatoes and bread are not considered junk food despite having limited nutritional content. Similarly, Breakfast cereals are often regarded as healthy but may have high levels of sugar, salt and fat.
Many critics believe that junk food is not harmful when consumed as part of a balanced diet and some believe that the term should not be used at all.
Many people see some foods as 'good' and some foods as 'bad' and feel they are helping their health when they are eating 'good' foods and not when eating 'bad'. Healthy eating is all about achieving a balanced diet and to achieve this you should eat a variety of foods in moderation. Healthy eating can be achieved by following the Balance of Good Health (BOGH). This is a visual representation of how to achieve a balanced diet and is the UK National Food Guide:
http://www.foodcomm.org.uk/

Smoking

Smoking

Did you know smoking can cause hair loss, cataracts, wrinkles, deafness, mouth ulcers, rashes and tooth decay and its never too late to help yourself.

Most smokers are aware of the dangers of smoking and may think that they have a right to smoke; after all, it is not against the law. Perhaps it is not so simple. When a smoker ends up in hospital needing treatment for emphysema, or lung cancer, their treatment costs money. The National Health Service is paid for out of our taxes and their disease costs us money.

Smoking is an addiction, Smoking harms not just the smoker, but also family members, coworkers and others who breathe the smoker's cigarette smoke, called secondhand smoke.
Among infants to 18 months of age, secondhand smoke is associated with as many as 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia each year. Secondhand smoke from a parent's cigarette increases a child's chances for middle ear problems, causes coughing and wheezing, and worsens asthma conditions.
If both parents smoke, a teenager is more than twice as likely to smoke than a young person whose parents are both non-smokers. In households where only one parent smokes, young people are also more likely to start smoking.
Pregnant women who smoke are more likely to deliver babies whose weights are too low for the babies' good health. If all women quit smoking during pregnancy, about 4,000 new babies would not die each year.

http://www.peakofhealth.ch/smoke_main.html

White-Lies & Tales

Have you ever wonder why we all tell lies, may be this may be down to life experiences and things and people we all growed-up- with- influences us to tell lies and lies is a part of life and is a part of living............Everyone tells lies, even the Queen...yaya

But if you remeber president Bill clinton Famous words i did not have sexual relationship with that woman.......,,,,,,,,,,How Rude

We all seems to tell lies......... basically these lies seems to help us get out of trouble for many reason.... ..., and for some-others -they tells-lies for meaning less reasoned and ignore the consequences.

I remember back in the days, when i was younger- my friends and I wanted to have a party in with their boy-friends.

So one of my friend mum mostly worked night and so she said we could all have a get together at her house and so she invited her boy-friend over and so did my next friend. later my other friend turn up by herself and later i told my parents i was going over- around my friends house to see her & her mum will also be there.........

And so I later I ask my parents if i could go-they said yes, has long as I will be back home for 9pm, 10pm the most because it was the weekend. my parents was also going out that night and normally they're back around 6am in the morning because of the weekend................ so- I had everything planned and ready and waiting.................

That night everyone turned up and so the party-bash begined and the party was sweet, lots of jokes, lots of drinks, the cheapest we could afford mainly 20/20-malibu-and-QC and lots of entertainment- and basically socialising and having a good time.

The party was so-sweet-I-forgot the time..........We all were just being teenagers and having a good time, then later we heard a car pulled-up on the drive-way..........we all thought it was-my friend mum-back- ...but was too- early, we all froze...............

Two sencond later the guys in the house-disapeared ...........just disapeared.... could be it they were know where to be seen or found......I couldn't believed it

my friend did not know what to do she just froze............and did not know what to do.............

We were all drunk and the guys just went through the back door and through the garden and jump over the fence- and the other- went into the cupboard.........

We just did not know how he did fit in that cupboard upto today...because the cupborad was just too small

Anyway, two second later we heard the door bell ring............we were just a bite cofuse because.. if its her mum she got her own set of keys and we were just puzzled and just wondering who could be at the door at this time of the moring..........this was happening at around 3:30am in morning.

my friend went to answer the door-she was so nervous-she was shaking and wondering if her mum for forgot her keys.

So later she went and answer the door-suprised-suprised it was my step-mum-I nearly- run through the roof and shit-my self because- this was unexpected.

I was so drunk i could not hide-this-I-just did not know what to do........that night thank god she never came in or ask to speak to my friend mum becaused she normally parked at the back.....

That night i was so drunk and in shock-I couldn't even put my shoes on or coat on .....I just got in the car and went home.

http://topten.org/Content/tt.BG40.htm

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Prostitution

I think people who are willing to pay for sex are the people who need help. I think men who use women to sell their body and use their body for personal use are the real criminals.

I don’t think prostitution is wrong or right thing……….. but I do think if that person wants to sell their body its their choice and its their life, but if that person is willing to sell their body for drugs is wrong…. but that is my opinion, again that’s their choice and life.

Ihttp://www.ex.ac.uk/~watupman/undergrad/aac/anti.htm