These days, dieting has become a fashion among teenagers as more and more teens tend to dieting no matter whether they are obese or not. Teenagers are at a critical development stage of their lives and their bodies need a sufficient amount of essential nutrients. If they deprive their bodies of these essential nutrients, dieting may bring more harm than good to them.  Another problem is the type of diet that teenagers are consuming as the use of fad diets is on increase in the teenage community. These sorts of diets are deigned to especially targeting the impatient audience as these diets offer quick fix that make people have them. Fad diets often become the cause of serious eating disorder in teens.

Mostly female are prone to develop an eating disorder as they are more body image conscious than male teenagers. Actually the reason is whenever these teenage girls turn on the television or open a magazine, they have to confront the “Barbie Doll’ look. When these girls try to possess the same look (that often proves an unattainable look in most cases.), they start dieting and want to get the desired results immediately.  It has become quite difficult for parents to monitor their teenagers eating habits, but they need to be watchful of the signs that begin to occur when an eating disorder develop.
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A new research team announced today that they may have discovered a new way to fight HIV. They worked to isolate 270 human proteins that are essential for the AIDS virus to attack the immune system. This new discovery will give scientists a lot more ammunition to discover methods of effectively stopping HIV in its tracks.

This discovery is very important for several reasons. First, at least 200 of these proteins were not believed to be part of the process, but now researchers have identified them and found out how they work to give AIDS inroads into a patient’s body. These new proteins were discovered by using a “genome wide scan,” a new technology that was recently developed.

Previously, it was thought that AIDS could only be targeted with drugs that interrupt one of the main steps found in the virus life cycle. This new find opens up several doors that suggest there could be several other ways to treat the virus. “This is likely destined to be on the best papers on HIV for this coming decade,” commented Robert C. Gallo. He is the co-discoverer of the AIDS virus. He added, “I think it is terrific.” Gallo was not involved in this study, but appears to be cheered by its results.

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