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The converse can also be true, however. Although this period of life can be fraught with difficulty, there is also an enormous opportunity to protect future health. Often for the first time, young people will be making independent decisions about what to eat and how much, whether to do regular sports and exercise, whether to engage in safe or unsafe sexual practices, or whether or not to try addictive substances such as drugs or alcohol.
Thus, positive development is critical for young people, in particular learning specific social skills, being able to form bonds with other people, developing a sense of self-worth, gaining a sense of right and wrong, and building the ability to empathise with others.
“Some adolescents will make healthy choices but some will start making unhealthy choices. These may start as experimental behaviours, but without adequate support can become lifelong habits. The challenge for us is to design policies that will make healthy choices easy, and unhealthy choices difficult, expensive and inaccessible,” says Baltag.
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