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 study suggests that a vitamin found in milk, fish and meat may prove helpful to avoid memory loss in old age.

The researcher concluded in their study, which published in the journal Neurology, older people who had lower than average vitamin B12 levels were six times more likely to have brain shrinkage. The study was conducted by the University of Oxford and 107 (apparently healthy) volunteers were examined over a five year period.

There are many such studies as suggest that two out of five elderly people have vitamin deficiency. The problem of vitamin deficiency is quite common in older people.

The Oxford researchers looked at a group of people aged 61 to 87 and divided them into three sub-groups considering their vitamin B12 levels.

More than three percent of the participants with the lowest levels of vitamins were above the point that researchers consider vitamin B12 deficiency.

According to lead researcher Professor David Smith, his team is now planning a trial of vitamin Bs in the older people to find whether proper supply of these vitamins can slow down brain shrinkage or not.

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