[AbiDrew85]

Personally, I disagree with the whole idea of an adult only forum. Young adults need just as much advice and guidance as adults, maybe even more due to their naive nature and peer pressures/insecurities. I for one am continually shocked at how some adults on this forum are soo mean and so blunt with young women who have some real concerns about their body image.

I don't really particularly like the idea either... but we are having exactly some of the issues of age misrepresentation, and a lot of these teens are asking us to give them advice on herbs and supplements that they shouldn't be using yet.

As I said, I don't know what the solution is, but it does get tiring to see time and time again girls under 20 coming on here and demanding help with messing themselves up with dangerous supplementation.

It is usually as easy as pointing them in the right direction instead, but... It'd be so much easier if they just read the warnings and disclaimers and started there in the first place.

Since we really can't MAKE them read... the only other solution seems to be to make at least part of the board adults only.

Perhaps Eve could set it up so it's adults only to post there, but leave it open to public reading.

There has to be something that can be done to dissuade these girls from trying herbs without having to do it one thread at a time. It's the aggravation from that, I think, which causes some of the ladies here to get short with them. I generally just ignore their threads because I don't want to run the risk of getting short.