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Students see themselves as overweight and sickly and are MCQ #1 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote thoughts of suicide and MCQ #2 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote as they climb the academic ladder, a survey has found. Chinese University doctors, releasing the largest study of its kind, warned of an urgent need to MCQ #3 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote an increasingly unhealthy youth lifestyle and MCQ #4 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote .

The survey, based on interviews with 26,111 students aged 10 to 20 from 48 primary and secondary schools, showed the lifestyle, eating habits and self- MCQ #5 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote of well-being worsen the older the students get. As a student gets older, he is more likely to MCQ #6 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote breakfast, eat junk food, see doctors and buy medicine to treat perceived or real health problems. Close to 90 per cent said they were either overweight or extremely overweight.

Some 20 per cent of Secondary 4 to 7 students had seen a doctor three or more times in the past six months, compared with 11.7 per cent of Primary 4 to 6 students. Sixteen per cent of students in upper secondary school had experienced hurt and MCQ #7 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote continuously for two weeks or more in the past year, compared with 9.2 per cent of primary students.

About 18 per cent and 6.3 per cent of secondary 4 to 7 students MCQ #8 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote had thought about suicide and planned it. The figures for primary students were 9.8 per cent and four per cent. However, only 0.4 per cent of the total number of students in the survey said they had asthma when an average of 10 per cent in their age group is known to suffer. "This indicates an MCQ #9 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote ignorance," said survey team leader and community medicine associate professor Albert Lee.

The director of the university's School of Public Health, Professor Lee Shiu-hung, said a wide definition of health, including physical health and self- MCQ #10 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote of well-being, was adopted from the World Health Organisation. "This study will be a MCQ #11 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote as we launch a school-by-school campaign to MCQ #12 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote healthy living and educate teachers to spread its messages at primary and secondary levels." He said the study showed there was an urgent need to MCQ #13 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote health education in physical, psychological and social aspects so students could MCQ #14 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote problems.

Last year the university MCQ #15 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote a two-year diploma programme for school teachers to study public health. The graduates will help MCQ #16 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote the general health situation of their schools. "The way teens live reflects Hong Kong's general lifestyle, so that's difficult to change," said Dr Edmund Li Tsze-shing, a food and MCQ #17 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote science researcher at Hong Kong University. "As they mature, they MCQ #18 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote in more and more information about health and other issues. So to educate them you need to spread your net wide to get your message across."

Clinical psychologist Eugenie Leung said the MCQ #19 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote provided more evidence for educators to help youngsters adopt a more positive MCQ #20 findings counter nutritional perception cope with alarming filter prone to despair skip monitor outlook launched respectively benchmark promote on life.