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BBC News By Cristina Criddle Teenagers' mental health is being damaged by heavy social media use, a report has found. Research from the Education Policy Institute and The Prince's Trust said wellbeing and self-esteem were similar in all children of primary school age. Boys and girls' wellbeing is affected at the age of 14, but girls' mental health drops more after that, it found. A lack of exercise is another contributing factor - exacerbated by the pandemic, the study said. One in three girls was unhappy with their personal appearance by the age of 14, compared with one in seven at the end o...

Those with kids buy more higher fat dairy The American Dairy Science Association published a study that confirms households purchasing food for children behave differently than all other American households. Those homes with children not only purchase more dairy products, but they also buy and consume more higher fat milk and more yogurt. In “Dairy product purchasing in households with and without children,” Mario Ortez, Courtney Bir, Nicole Olynk Widmar and Jonathan Townsend proved their hypothesis that households frequently buying for children have a different buying pattern than those ...

Turns out our happiness and confidence are the lowest they’ve been in 12 years!

The Pandemic Has Left Young People "Unable to Cope With Life" Kayla Kibbe, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail It would seem the kids are not alright. In fact, a staggering percentage of them consider themselves simply “unable to cope with life,” which, honestly, same. This not entirely surprising update on the current state of the youth comes to us from the U.K., where one of the nation’s leading charities just returned the worst ever findings in the 12-year history of its annual survey of young people’s happiness. According to Guardian, the Prince’s Trust’s 2020 Youth Index found ...

Tuesday briefing: 'Missing out on being young' Warren Murray Top story: Call to promote BAME vaccinations Hello, Warren Murray marking out the trail to Tuesday’s must-read news. Young people are in danger of giving up on their futures and on themselves amid the coronavirus pandemic, a Prince’s Trust survey has found. More than one in four said they had felt unable to cope with life since the start of the pandemic, increasing to 40% of those not in work, education or training. Half of 16- to 25-year-olds said their mental health had worsened since the start of the pandemic....