Review of The Teenage Body Book (Paperback)

This book is incredible!I am 40 years old and know this book quite well. As a pre-teen, this book was a gift from my best friend's mom. I learned many things through this book that my mom had a hard time explaining.This book made it easy for me to explain topics to my own daughter (who is now 21) and who felt freely to talk to me about any subject, and still does.This book I passed to my daughter who remembers reading it as a pre-teen.We reference things in the book today since i have a step-daughter who is a pre-teen.I will now purchase a book for her very own.To the moms out there, do yourself and your child a favor and purchase this book.It is a great reference for the both of you.

Product Description
The award-winning guide, now fully updated--everything every teenager (and parent of a teenager) needs to know about nutrition, health, fitness, emotions, and sexuality.

This is the essential handbook for honest, forthright, up-to-date advice in dealing with every dilemma, doubt, and possibility facing teenagers at the threshold of the new century--including: *Overcoming "body image" anxiety *Drugs, drinking, smoking, and peer pressure *Sexual orientation and teenagers *Coping with depression, anxiety, and stress *Teen pregnancy, birth control, and parenthood *Sexually transmitted diseases *The latest information on fad diets, sports medicine, and medical advances *How to findconfidential and effective crisis counseling *The best websites for teens, and more

*Completely revised and updated
*Cyber-appendix provides e-mail addresses and websites of valuable sources
*Includes new sections on alternative medicines and therapies, and important new discoveries about ethnic differences in physical development
*Offers new "QuickScan" feature to highlight important informative facts, plus easy-to-access reference charts, treatments, action plans, and more
*The authors are experts in the field of health issues and young adults
*Illustrated throughout

About the Author
Kathy McCoy, Ph.D., is an award-winning author of eleven books, apsychotherapist, and Coordinator of the Clinical Ph.D. Program at the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles. A former editor for 'Teen, Dr. McCoy has written hundreds of articles for such publications as Redbook, Readers' Digest, The New York Times, Family Circle, Glamour, and Ladies Home Journal. An online expert specializing in adolescent psychology, she has made numerous appearances on "The Today Show," "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Hour Magazine," "Sally Jessy Raphael," and "Home and Family."

Charles Wibbelsman, M.D., is an award-winning author and former "Dear Doctor" columnist for Teen magazine. Chair of Adolescent Medicine for the Permanente Medical Group, Northern California, he is chief of the Teen-Age Clinic at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco, and an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School. Dr. Wibbelsman is the news anchor for a Bay Area television series, "Medicine in the Nineties," and is an online expert specializing in adolescent health.

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