health aspects

Text and illustrations introduce being clean, and provides tips on how to avoid germs.

Teens talk about how accessible marijuana is, the negative impact of marijuana use on learning, personal growth, and health, and the risk for some people of developing a dependency on marijuana.

Four diverse teen reporters point out the dangers of an unhealthy lifestyle. Offers easy to follow information on reading labels to find fat and sugar in food, exercising, eating well at fast food places, changing family habits and nutrition basics. Uses humor and compelling personal stories.

Discusses the origin, nature, and effects of cocaine and its dangerous new form, crack, and examines efforts to halt their abuse.

Discusses the effects of the sun on skin and eyes and how to protect yourself and repair damage from the sun.

Examines why teens smoke, the consequences of smoking, the facts about smoking, chewing, and sniffing, and includes statistics, and case studies.

Examines the possibility that the rigors of the experience of an ascent of Mt. Everest can cause permanent, damaging changes to the human brain and body, following a team of climbers, under close monitoring by scientists, during an expedition to the summit of Everest and back again.

Explores how steroid use has become one of the most prevalent drug addictions in the United States, revealing how athletes have used the drugs to enhance their performance, leading to questionable sports records and an unrealistic expectation of how teams and individuals should perform.

Examines the basic concepts of alcohol abuse through the lens of the latest scientific studies and finding. Provides tools for evaluating conflicting and ever changing ideas.

Explores how climate changes is affecting the health of people around the world by altering patterns of disease, linking global warming to cholera, malaria, Lyme disease, asthma, and other health threats.