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General health information

Publications & web sites

1.   BAM! Body and Mind™ – This website offers great tips for handling stress and taking care of your body.
2.  FDA & You: News for Health Educators and Students – FDA & You is a newsletter for teens, parents, and educators. In it you'll find current information on many of the FDA medical product and health topics you've been wondering about.
3.   Girl Power! – Find out how to have the ultimate girl power with this site. Be in the know!
4.   Healthfinder for Kids – This web site is an awesome gateway to dozens of links to games, contests, other great web sites, and health information.
5.   Health Information for Teens – From rays to henna, find out the inside scoop from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
6.   Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls. – Being strong means taking care of your bones. Find out why bone health is so important and how to be a powerful girl!
7.   Protect Your Ears – Know which noises can harm your hearing with this on-line guide.
8.   Take Charge of Your Health: A Teenager’s Guide to Better Health – This guide from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has recipes, physical activity tips and other ideas for how to take charge of your health.
9.   VERB © – (All about getting active!) Being active has never been so fun. VERB has the coolest ideas for teens on the go.
10. Especially for Teens: Your First Gyn Visit (Copyright © ACOG) – This pamphlet will explain what to expect at a visit to the gynecologist, what exams may be done, and what special concerns should be discussed with your doctor.
11. Smart-Mouth – Do you like to cook? Then this is the web site chock full of recipes is the one for you.
12. Teenagers: How to Stay Healthy – The things you do today can affect your health as an adult. The good news is that there are ways to help keep yourself healthy. This on-line publication will tell you how.
13. Teen's Health Center (Copyright © MFMER) – This web site will help you locate teen health information, including teen sexuality, teen pregnancy, mental health and other teen health issues.
14. Wellness 101 – This online publication from the Center for Young Women's Health offers fun fitness tools and nutrition information. Everything you need to know about general wellness, but in a fun way!

Organizations

1. Indian Health Service
2. Center for Young Women's Health
3. Go Ask Alice!
4. Kids Health (The Nemours Foundation)

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Last updated June 2007