Physical Health...
Below are our articles on the subject of Physical Health. If you can't see what you are looking for our other categories are displayed on the left under 'Our Quick Links'...
Anorexia and Bulimia
Anorexia nervosa (anorexia) and bulimia nervosa (bulimia) are perhaps the two most well known eating disorders today. Anorexics are known for their failure to eat,...
Answering Some Common Questions About Cancer
Cancer. This one word can strike fear into the hardest of hearts and cause entire communities to experience emotions that they may never have...
Coping With PMS
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) affects an estimated 75% of women in some way, so understanding this syndrome, its symptoms and how to alleviate them are important to...
Dental Braces
Many teens are advised to wear dental braces for oral health. Unfortunately there are myths and rumours surrounding dental braces that can be off putting. If you are...
Girl Issues: Your Monthly Period
Getting your period is not just a right of passage for girls, it's a sign that your body is starting puberty and maturing into womanhood. Most young women get their...
Having a Healthy Teen Pregnancy
Having a healthy teen pregnancy is not impossible or even unlikely. All things being equal there is no reason that teen mothers can not have as healthy a pregnancy as...
Puberty and Your Changing Body
When you hit puberty it can seem like your body is out of control and there's good reason for this: puberty is the time in your life when your body will grow the...
Reducing Unwanted Weight
With the dizzying array of sweets, crisps, fizzy drinks, packaged snacks and take away meals, its little wonder that many of us overdo it at times and put on a bit of...
Self Harming
Part and parcel of being a teenager means facing the world in a rapidly changing body, with rapidly changing ideas in your head, rapidly changing friends by your side...
Sleeping Difficulties
Most teenagers and adults need between seven and ten hours of sleep per night to wake up feeling refreshed and energetic, yet due to hectic schedules, poor lifestyle...
Steroids
Recent newspaper articles have talked about a growing problem of steroid abuse in teenagers almost exclusively boys, and young men. Anabolic steroids are illegal to sell...
Straight Facts on Smoking
Stained fingers. Bad breath. Sore throat. Hacking cough. Noxious clothes. Need more reasons to avoid smoking? How about lung cancer, weak bones, stomach ulcers and...
Teens, Alcohol And Drugs
Dabbling in alcohol and drugs may seem harmless enough during your teenage years, but the truth is that both are seriously bad for your health. As a teen, your body is...
Understanding Acne
Spots. Blemishes. Pimples. Zits. No matter what you call them, they're ugly! They also seem to wait until the worst possible moment to erupt- right before a big...
Understanding Diabetes
Diabetes is a condition in which a person's blood sugar remains too high because the body can not use up all of the glucose that it produces and consumes. Glucose is...
Understanding Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a disorder of the nervous system. It is usually diagnosed after someone suffers from two seizures, or episodes in which there is sudden electrical activity...
Understanding Migraines
A migraine is a very specific type of headache which often begins occurring in the teen years. It has particular symptoms associated with it and tends to affect...
