A latest report from the Academy of Pediatrics suggested that 21% of youngsters say they've consumed over a sip of alcohol before they were just 13-year-old, and 79% had done so by their senior year in high school.

In a report, published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, the authors wrote that now as many as 50% of high school students consume alcohol, and among them around 60% binge drink.

Parents who keep on delaying the conversation for too long are likely to put their child at risk of other over-consumption linked ill effects, including nausea, vomiting and depression.

Experts mentioned that the children also have the tendency of testing their own limits of sustaining alcohol, as a result of which they face a higher risk of health problems.

Teens consuming three alcoholic beverages in a single sitting or at a single event belong to binge drinking territory. Consumption of alcohol is also linked to road accidents, crashes, homicides and suicides, the man causes of death and severe injury for adolescents.

In the recent years, binge drinking has become more popular. It is not just little ones who are getting inclined towards it. As per the researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one out of every six adults in America practice binge drinking roughly four times every month.