High Schoolers' Less-Than-Healthy Habits

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Considering the way teenagers ignore other kinds of adult advice, we needn’t be surprised that they shun the dietary guidelines foisted on them by grownup experts. But teens do so by landslide margins, according to this month’s release of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2009 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The visual here gives an overall picture of these tendencies on the part of 9th-12th graders. Boys were considerably more likely than girls to say they drink at least three glasses of milk per day (20 percent vs.

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