Wednesday, March 11, 2009

http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines/43684/Teenage_stress_has_implications_for_adult_health.html

Teenage Stress has Implications for Adult Health

Links have now been made between stress in the teenage years and later development of cardiovascular disease (CVD). It has been proven that even the healthiest of teenagers are experiencing stress and inflammation during their adulthood. Fights with peers have been declared powerful predictors that lead to such immense stress. No matter how often these stresses occur, they can still impact teenagers greatly.
From a teenager's point of view, stress takes up a big part of our lives. Our mind is always filled with thoughts regarding other subjects when we should be focusing on the task at hand. Both physically and mentally we are all tired and could use a break. To know that all this stress could quite possibly affect us in our adulthood is frightening. With more research and study, hopefully the overall stress of everyone can be limited to a minimum amount not only for our own sanity but our personal health. 
The article could have shown more examples and provided more information. I felt as if i was getting the same information over and over again when i actually wanted to learn something new. The topic was well presented and proved the point but a lack of information suggests that there is more research to do. 

4 comments:

noble c said...

3. -Good information about cardiovascular disease (CVD)
-Her article was written very clearly
-I really liked her topic because it was something i did not know very much about
2.-She could have added a quote or two to show how people are affected
-Add a little more detail into each paragraph
1. I did not know that stress takes up a big part of our lives as teenagers.

Steven said...

3 Very thorough
2 Has good information on the topic
1 Easy to understand

2 Should've put the other examples from the article
1 Describe a little bit how teenagers had stress

1 Did not know stress can cause CVD

Luke said...

1. Very clear article because it was easy to understand
2. Had good facts
3. Article can relate to teenagers

1. Could have broken up it up into paragraphs
2. Could have talked more about CVD because i don't know what it is exactly

1. I learned that even the healthiest teenagers are experiencing stress and inflammation from CVD in their adulthood

janep said...

I think that this review was written well. I like how Jessica explains how such a “normal” aspect of teenagers lives, such as stress, could have an affect throughout their lives. I like that Jessica explained that they are continuing to gather information to shed more light on this topic, and I liked the way she used sanity as well as health to explain the affects of stress. I think that this could have included more statistics and I also think that it could have explained more about the role school as in stress and the way that stress is affecting people in their futures. I think it is interesting to read about this because we are all experiencing so much stress in school as teenagers and it is interesting to read about an article that researches this topic instead of passing it off as “normal”.