Strange Teenage Facts!

1. 75 percent of girls with low self-esteem reported engaging in negative activities like cutting, bullying, smoking, drinking, or disordered eating. This compares to 25 percent of girls with high self-esteem.
2. About 20 percent of teens will experience depression before they reach adulthood.
3.  The top wish among all teen girls is for their parents to communicate better with them!
4.  38 percent of boys in middle school and high school reported using protein supplements and nearly 6 percent admitted to experimenting with steroids.
5. 7 in 10 girls believe that they are not good enough or don’t measure up in some way, including their looks, performance in school and relationships with friends and family members.
6.  More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
7.  Young people who drink alcohol are 50 times more likely to use cocaine than teens who never drink.
8. About 64 percent of teens surveyed who have abused pain relievers say they got them from friends or relatives.
9. Around 28 percent of teens know a friend or classmate who has used ecstasy, with 17 percent knowing more than one user.
10. By the 8th grade, 29.5 percent of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15.5 percent have smoked cigarettes, and 15 percent have used marijuana.
11. Teens whose parents talk to them regularly about the dangers of drugs are 42 percent less likely to use drugs than those whose parents don't. However, only a quarter of teens report having these conversations.
12. More than half of all teenagers aged 15-19 has engaged in oral sex. 55 percent of boys and 54 percent of girls have given or received oral sex, while 49 percent of boys and 53 percent of girls have had intercourse.
13. About one in five ninth graders report having oral sex and almost one third said they intend to try it during the next six months, a small study of teens at two California schools report.  
14. On average, young people have sex for the first time at about age 17.
15. Approximately 1 million teenagers every year become pregnant. Up to 95 % of those pregnancies were unplanned and unwanted.
16. Teenage pregnancy rates are directly related to the income and education level of the teenager's family. Almost half of the girls living in poverty will become pregnant before becoming an adult.
17. For every sexually active teenager, one in four will get an STD within one year. 
18.  European teens are more likely than U.S. teens to use contraceptives generally and to use the most effective methods; they therefore have substantially lower pregnancy rates.
19. About half of all new STDs in 2000 occurred among youth ages 15 to 24.

Facts About Teen Pregnancy

● The US has the highest rate of Teen pregnancy, birth and abortion in the industralised world.
● 96% Teen mothers keep their babies inside.
● In Texas a baby is born to a Teen mother every 10 mins.
● Texas is #3 in teen births.
● 85% of the Teens who have mentors, will go on to a secondary education in a college or some technical school
● The rest 25% of the same group will go on to a college.

Facts about Bill Gates

Here are some ridiculous facts about what Bill Gates can do with all his money:-
1. If Bill Gates were a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.
2. Bill Gates is 57 this year. If we assume that he will live for another 33 years, he has to spend $6 million per day to use up all his wealth.
3. He can give $10 to everyone on the earth & still be loaded with $2.26 billion left.
4. If Microsoft Windows' users could claim $1 for every time Microsoft Windows freezes, Bill Gates would be bankrupt in about 3 days!
5. He is a big spender- Bill Gates has donated more than $26 billion dollars to philanthropic causes through the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. That includes $10 billion for vaccine research over the next 10 years!
6. In school he bragged to his teachers that he would be a millionaire by 30; he was a billionaire by 31.
7. It's literally not with his time to pick up a $100 Bill from the ground- With a worth of $72 billion, a 6% rate of return would earn Gates roughly $114.16 per second he is alive, making it a poor investment for Bill Gates to bother picking up a $100 bill if he dropped it.

Sources of Calorie in Foods

Top 10 sources of calories in the world diet.
->Grain-based desserts (cakes, cookies, donuts, pies, crisps, cobblers         and granola bars)
->Yeast breads
->Chicken and chicken-mixed dishes
->Soda, energy drinks, and sports drinks
->Pizza
->Alcoholic beverages
->Pasta and pasta dishes
->Mexican mixed dishes
->Beef and beef-mixed dishes
->Dairy desserts