by Maria-20, 2AUG2007

Are you sitting down? Are you ready for this? We have some mind-blowing news from Washington today…

Apparently, poor nutrition is….detrimental to teen health! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

Ok, I shouldn’t jest. Ahem. But neither should any of US be unaware that bad eating habits can lead to a bad high-school health record. But, nevertheless, scientists are still digging.

VITAMINS, no longer ONE A DAY! Read on…

Apparently, researchers, including one Ms. Jane Burns and her colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health have recently done a number of surveys of over 2,000 American and Canadian high school seniors. They found that many teens don’t eat enough fruits and veggies. I’m not sure why they thought they needed to use time and money to figure that out (they could have just asked me, for instance…I don’t consider myself an expert on the subject, I suppose, but I was - only recently - an actual dorito-addicted teen).

But they also found that only 11% of teens surveyed take a vitamin supplement daily. (I confess, I stopped when I finally felt that Flinstone vitamins weren’t cool anymore…although my roommate begs to differ).

Apparently, these non-fruit eating, non-Flinstone-admiring teens (or what I like to call normal, unfortunate for our health as that may be) are more likely to develop asthma or other respiratory symptoms. And they are even more likely to develop these problems if they’re not getting enough vitamin C.

Come on, guys, drink more Sunny D.

Anyway, Burns noted the importance of eating more fruits and vegetables, and I wondered who was paying this woman to say these things.

(I don’t really mean to be so sarcastic. It’s just…really?)

Anyway, I’ll end this important news announcement with a controversial theory I am developing. Well, it’s more of a question really, I suppose.

How do all of these surveyors know that the supposed “links” they find between all of these things are for real and aren’t just some coincidence? I mean, what if teens who don’t eat enough Pebbles or Bam Bams also are more likely to have…bad taste in music or something? Is that really conclusive? There are so many of these surveys around…someone is bound to find some weird things from time to time that don’t mean anything. But who am I to say…I’m just a post-teen who shamelessly eats cheetos with every meal and has never touched an inhaler.

You be the judge I suppose. And you know, what the heck. Try to get more Vitamin C. Might as well stay on the safe side.

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