Alcohol use, unhealthy eating signal youths’ sexual activity: study

Alcohol use, overall risky behaviour, and even unhealthy eating can be predictors of early adolescent sex, according to a new report.

The study, entitled Socio-Demographic, Health, and Lifestyle Factors Influencing Age of Sexual Initiation among Adolescents was carried out by a three-person team from the Health Promotion Research Centre in the School of Health Sciences at NUI Galway.