• Question: Can drinking at a young age affect your size(stop growing?)???xxx

    Asked by bethxoxtully333 to Suzi, Tim on 16 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by sophie11xoxo.
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      Suzi Gage answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Hi @bethxoxtully333
      Good question!
      Alcohol has different effects on teenagers compared to adults, but a little bit of alcohol as a teenager is not likely to do you a lot of harm (no more than it would an adult anyway).

      However, because you’re growing a lot in your early teens, it is thought that lots of alcohol at this time can negatively affect the levels of certain hormones in your body, which may slow down or alter your normal development. It doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be shorter, but it might affect other things developing around that time, like your reproductive system for example.

      There’s more information here

      http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa67/aa67.htm

      Hope this answers your question 🙂

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