health and hygiene

"The average teen spends more time at school than anywhere except in bed asleep. This book investigates how your health can affect your experience at school. It looks at both chronic illness and mental health issues, providing some basic information on the most common diagnoses that impact teens. It also provides tips on stress management, identigying high-risk behaviors, and other ways you can stay healthy at school"--Back cover.

"A recent study found that teenagers spend as much as nine hours a day in front of various types of screens. What impact is all that electronic input having? This book examines the many ways in which social media in particular, and the internet in general, can affect our health, both mental and physical. Online safety, privacy, and dealing with cyberbullies are all discussed. The goal is to make sure that we use social media, rather than letting social media use us"--Back cover.

Provides teens with a solid and practical introduction to living a healthy lifestyle, covering healthy diet, grocery shopping, cooking, exercising, mental health, and more.

"A practical, easy-to-use handbook for teenagers that will help you learn how to develop a healthy and loving relationship with your body and food"--Provided by publisher.

" In [this book], you'll learn how to: accept yourself for who you are; be more respectful and maintain healthy, wholesome relationships with those around you; set yourself on the path to success; value your life experiences and use them to your advantage; discover and define the values that are most important to you; cope with changes as they come; build stronger relationships with your siblings, parents, and grandparents; practice self-care because it's NOT just for girls; and so much more!"--from Amazon.

"Emphasizing the body's innate wisdom and ability to heal, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom covers the entire range of women's health--from the first menstrual period through menopause. It includes updated information on pregnancy, labor, and birth, sexuality, nutrition, hormone replacement therapy, treating fibroids, avoiding hysterectomy, and maintaining breast and menstrual health. Fully revised and updated to include the very latest treatment innovations and research data, and reflecting today's woman's proactive involvement in her own health care, this important new edition will help women everywhere enjoy vibrant health with far fewer medical interventions."--Page 4 of cover.

"The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation, by a groundbreaking journalist at the New York Times Magazine"--Provided by publisher.

"Teens are overscheduled these days that there's a tendency to think of sleep as 'wasted time.' Nothing could be further from the truth. The body needs sleep to recover from the days' activities, while the mind needs sleep to process everything that has been seen, heard, and learned during our waking hours. Likewise, personal hygiene, which may seem like yet more wasted time in a busy day, is an essential part of keeping ourselves healthy"--Back cover.

"An illustrated guide to vaginas and vulvas from TikTok star Dr. Allison Rodgers"--Provided by publisher.

"In 'Hysterical,' Bassist explains how girls and women internalize and perpetuate directives about their voice, making it hard to emote or 'just speak up' and 'burn down the patriarchy.' But her silence hurt more than anything she could ever say. 'Hysterical' is a memoir of a voice lost and found, and a primer on new ways to think about a woman's voice, where it's being squashed and where it needs amplification. Bassist breaks her own silences and calls on others to do the same--to unmute their voice, listen to it above all others, and use it again without regret"--Provided by publisher.