Melbourne: A new study has found that young users are increasingly using questionable content to make themselves look better on social networking platforms.
A study conducted in Australia based on 90 studies of 600,000 people worldwide found a global rate of use of weight loss products among youth at 5.5%.
This rate includes two percent of children who reported using these items in the past week, while four percent included those who used these items in the past month. Six percent of teens reported using weight loss products in the past year and nine percent at some point in their lives.
In the United States, the rate of use of these items among children as a whole was found to be 6.1 percent.
The researchers included weight-loss drugs and dietary supplements among the items that these young people used without a doctor’s prescription. The research found that this rate is higher in girls than in boys. However, the rate is different in other countries.
Talking about the results, the researchers emphasized to stop the indiscriminate use of the substances, saying that long-term use of the substances can cause health problems.
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