Drinking Increasing Among Girls And Young Women In The USA.
Binge drinking is a significant unmanageable centre of women and girls in the United States, with one in five female steep inculcate students and one in eight young women reporting usual episodes, federal health officials reported Tuesday. For women, binge drinking means downing four or more drinks on an occasion andractim. Every month, about 14 million women and girls binge sip at least three times, according to the statement from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
And women who binge lap general about six drinks at a time, the publish said. "Although binge drinking is even more of a disturbed to each men and boys, binge drinking is an formidable and unrecognized women's health issue," CDC director Dr Thomas Frieden, said during a c noontide press conference. And the consequences for women, who dispose of alcohol differently than men, are serious, Frieden said. "There are about 23000 deaths all women and girls each year due to drinking too much alcohol," he said. "Most of those deaths are from binge drinking".
Binge drinking also increases the chance for many vigorousness problems such as heart of hearts cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, ticker disease and unintended pregnancy, he added. In addition, having a bun in the oven women who binge drink expose their babe in arms to high levels of alcohol that can lead to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and startling infant death syndrome, he noted.
Frieden popular that the number of adult women who binge drink hasn't changed much in the lifestyle 15 years. But changing patterns mid young people mean that high school girls are binge drinking nearly as often as boys, Frieden explained. "While the scold surrounded by high school boys fell considerably in modern decades, it has remained relatively constant among exalted school girls, which is why there is hardly any difference at this point between boys and girls in drinking," he said.
