Feature youth culture link: Girls and their diets, is your daughter at risk?
They are shunning protein and dairy foods in an apparent effort to keep as thin as their celebrity role models.
The study found that 46 per cent of teenage girls consume too little iron, putting them at risk of anaemia and the associated tiredness and lethargy.
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Masculinity in a Spray Can @ NY Times
In some respects, there’s nothing new about the allure that grooming products and colognes hold for young men, promising to heighten their sex appeal and overall confidence, giving them cover to preen.
But in recent years, the products, ostensibly marketed to older teenagers, have reached into the turbulent, vulnerable world of their little brothers, ages 10 to 14.
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10. Up in the Air
9. Julia and Julia
8. The Hurt Locker
iTunes Top 10 Downloaded Songs – 2/19/10
1. We Are the World 25 - Artists for Haiti
2. Imma Be - Black Eyed Peas
3. Hey, Soul Sister – Train
4. Need You Now – Lady Antebellum
5. TiK ToK – Ke$ha
6. BedRock- Young Money & Lloyd
7. Blah Blah Blah (feat. 3OH!3) – Ke$ha
8. In My Head - Jason Derulo
9. Baby (feat. Ludacris) - Justin Bieber
10. Bad Romance - Lady GaGa
Source: Apple iTunes
