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"Look at the headlines: car bombs in Iraq; teenage girls killed by predators they encounter on myspace .com; lying presidents; melting snows in the Antarctic; corporate scandals, not to mention the old staples of death, mortality, and disease. Maybe, if you feel sadness at such things, you're aware and sensitive and alive. Maybe it's a credit to your constitution, demonstrating that you are capable of thinking, feeling, responding, breathing, and yes, suffering. As Percy says in Lost in the Cosmos: Assume that you are quite right [to be depressed]." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Fibroadenomas are common even among teenage girls. They often become larger during pregnancy and lactation, and older women may notice more cysts during late menopause, if they're on hormone replacement therapy, or if they're very thin. SWOLLEN, DISCOLORED BREASTS While swollen breasts are a common sign that a woman is about to get her period, red and swollen breasts, particularly if they're warm to the touch, may be a sign of a very aggressive form of breast cancer, inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). Pink, reddish purple, or bruised-looking breasts can also signal IBC. . , , . ." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"In fact, 20 percent of teenage girls with severe menorrhagia have a significant coagulation problem. A decrease in the number of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia) can also cause abnormal bleeding. Other systemic diseases, such as hypothyroidism and severe liver diseases, can also cause prolonged menses, heavy menses, or intermenstrual bleeding. An abnormal pregnancy is the most common cause of abnormal vaginal bleeding in women who are of reproductive age. Any type of miscarriage can present with abnormal bleeding that is also often associared with cramping pains." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"One survey found that many teenage girls are so frightened of getting breast cancer that they are now doing breast self-exams, even though the likelihood that a woman under the age of thirty will be diagnosed with breast cancer is about one in nineteen hundred, less than the chances of a person of any age dying from the flu. Not all of the blame for our national obsession with illness can be laid at the feet of pharmaceutical marketers." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"It seemed to me a very odd and sad coincidence that two teenage girls living right next door to each other would be struck with lupus at nearly the same time." Three months later a thirty-eight-year-old woman named Linda Winston,* who lived at 378 Moselle—almost across the street from Devonne—came into the store and told Grant that she was having a hard time because she couldn't go out in the sunshine anymore. Her doctor had just diagnosed her with lupus. Sunlight made the disease flare. "Right then a warning bell went off in my head," says Grant. "Something just didn't sound right to me." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"OCPs are safe for teenage girls to use, with the exception of Depo-Provera, which I mentioned on page 238. The Bottom Line on Contraceptives Use an OCP with low doses of estradiol (< 50 meg). Taking an OCP is safe for women who don't smoke. Women over age thirty-five who smoke or who should not take the regular pill for other reasons (e.g., history of blood clots) should consider the mini pill, another all-progesterone pill, or one of the alternatives to the pill I describe below." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"It took trying a few different brands, but I finally found one my two teenage girls like. I look for opportunities to switch to whole grain everywhere possible. While you may not be ready to switch to whole grains entirely, everyone can add a serving here and there. And that can be enough to make a difference in your health. 10 Tips for Enjoying a Whole Foods Diet 2. 3. 4. 9. 10. Check labels carefully to make sure they contain the nutrients that are suggested by advertising claims." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Bone mineral gain following calcium supplementation in teenage girls is preserved two years after withdrawal of the supplement. J. Bone Miner. Res. 16(S1), S173. 53. Lee, W. T. K., Leung, S. S. F., Leung, D. M. Y., and Cheng, J. C. Y. (1996). A follow-up study on the effect of calcium-supplement withdrawal and puberty on bone acquisition of children. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 64, 71-77. 54. Slemenda, C. W., Peacock, M., Hui, S., Zhou, L., and Johnston, C. C. (1997). Reduced rates of skeletal remodeling are associated with increased bone mineral density during the development of peak skeletal mass." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"And Wyeth was letting teenage girls create their own melodic ring tones and download them to their cell phones at a website promoting birth control pills called Alesse. James U. McNeal, an expert on the marketing of all types of products to children, explained in his 1999 book The Kids Market that companies had learned to give away toys and other fun prizes because play is a child's number one need. At the same time, children like those who give them things and are fondest of the biggest givers. "My research suggests that children begin to relate to brands?" - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Miss America worked with teenage girls, but the marketers required a more masculine approach when it came to men, a group not generally susceptible to messages that claimed they were sick. "We know that men don't like to go to the doctor as much as women," one Pfizer marketing executive explained in 2003. "How can we best reach men in a way where they're receptive:1" By 2005 it was clear that Pfizer and its competitors had found their answer." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"These days, so many teenagers, especially teenage girls, are obsessed with having the "perfect body"—an impossible image dictated by the magazines that they read and the television shows they watch. In pursuit of this perfection, they obsessively count calories while subsisting on diet cola and toxic snack foods. Even scarier: they also might develop a dependency on natural-health supplements for weight control or bodybuilding. The use of these unregulated substances, which increases every year, can lead to cardiac problems." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"As many personal care products are targeted to teenage girls in puberty and women of childbearing years, phthalates are gaining attention as a possible cancer-causing chemical that should be avoided. • Pesticides have been reviewed by European and North American studies and are linked with an increased rate of leukemia in children. Atrazine, a chemical found in household weed killers, is the most widely used herbicide in the United States. It impacts reproduction in frogs. Atrazine is banned in France, Germany, Sweden and Italy." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"But several states have tried to mandate the HPV vaccine for teenage girls, and I don't believe that vaccines should ever be mandated. Whether your child is fifteen months or fifteen years old, you should always have a long discussion with your doctor about the benefits, and risks, of any vaccine. Only then can you decide what's right for your child. Substance Abuse Experimentation is a completely normal part of childhood. But in recent years, teenagers have started abusing a record number of substances: cigarettes, alcohol, illegal and prescription drugs." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"So here is our pro-business Republican governor with his tough-guy image, under pressure from teenage girls and beauty queens and fellow actors over beauty products — a Hollywood staple," Lundstrom described in the Bee. "So relentless was Migden in ensuring her bill's passage that she popped over to the floor of the Assembly during a vote and pushed a Republican member's yes' button. Meanwhile, the $35 billion industry unleashed its own big guns on the Capitol in what bill supporters saw as a 'David and Goliath' confrontation." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"But wait a minute—evidence says egg consumption for teenage girls is okay, maybe even good, but evidence also says more egg consumption overall increases breast cancer risk. By the way, here's something else to think about. Multiple studies have rather consistently shown that egg consumption can increase colon cancer risk, more so for women than for men.40 What are we to believe? One minute alcohol intake can reduce our disease risks, the next minute it can increase them. One minute fish consumption can help to reduce our disease risks, the next minute it can hurt." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Eating disorders are not limited to teenage girls. Women aged forty and older are also susceptible. Doctors suspect that low levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter, may be the cause, producing psychological problems linked to anorexia and bulimia. Some people with anorexia just quit eating; some make themselves vomit immediately after eating; some take laxatives after eating; and some do all three. Most people with anorexia have normal feelings of hunger at the onset of the disease but teach themselves to ignore them." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Nutrition and the Ova The same factors listed above can also damage the genes within the ovum. More teenage girls are smoking today than ever before, and many will become addicted to cigarettes. Free-radical production associated with smoking causes accelerated aging of all of the body's tissues, including the reproductive cells in the ovaries. A significant number of these same young women are also engaging in drug use, which is very damaging to reproductive cells. Another common practice among young women is starvation dieting to maintain their image of a supermodel." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.) "Many teenage girls and boys are also on junk-food diets high in "bad fats." These fats include corn oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, peanut oil, and, to a lesser degree, canola oil. These oils share several unwelcome characteristics. They increase inflammation, depress the immune system, and impair enzymes necessary to convert other oils (linolenic fats) into DHA oils. This results in a severe depletion of "good fats," which include fish oils and flaxseed oil. Fish oils are composed of two types of fats, EPA and DHA, both of which play a role in protecting the baby's brain from injury." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.) "Further, problems always will accompany any weight-loss product, especially when used by teenage girls, who often take doses far exceeding those recommended when they become desperate to lose weight. Many herbs with hypoglycemic properties also can cause problems. Many are brain stimulants and can, under certain circumstances cause mania, panic attacks, insomnia, and even seizures. On the other hand, many herbs have safely been used for thousands of years by millions of people, and some have been studied in the laboratory for their medicinal properties." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Still skeptical, here are some more recent headlines: Recent research findings on sunlight Sunlight reduces mental disorders among teenage girls. University of Maine Sunlight kills breast cancer tumors. St. George's Hospital Sunbathing reduces stress. Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Sunlight protects against non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. International Journal of Cancer Sunlight prevents bone loss. Melbourne University Sunbathing may actually prevent some cancers. Karolinska Institutet in Sweden Many adults are sunlight deficient. Boston University Sunlight prevents cancer." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"One survey found that many teenage girls are so frightened of getting breast cancer that they are now doing breast self-exams, even though the likelihood that a woman under the age of thirty will be diagnosed with breast cancer is about one in nineteen hundred, less than the chances of a person of any age dying from the flu. Not all of the blame for our national obsession with illness can be laid at the feet of pharmaceutical marketers." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"They are also common in teenage girls and women approaching menopause. This condition can be caused by pelvic inflammatory disease, fibroids, and endometriosis. Occasionally, a particularly heavy period can actually be a miscarriage, in which case you may need to have a surgical procedure known as dilation and curettage (D&C). SYMPTOMS TREATMENT GOAL • Irregular or absent periods • Heavy or light periods • Abdominal pain Treatment of menstrual disorders depends on the type and cause of the condition." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"The FDA denied that this move was politically motivated, and said it arose from concern that teenage girls would not be able to use the product safely. REACTION Reaction from groups that advocate the OTC sale of this contraception was swift in coming. "The American Society for Reproductive Medicine [ASRM] is pleased that the FDA has approved making emergency contraception available to women age 18 and over," says ASRM President Dr. Joseph S. Sanfilippo. " - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"This is especially true if a young woman struggles with obesity and leptin issues during developmental years. teenage girls who are overweight disturb leptin function as it relates to their female system, an issue with lifelong consequences. Reproductive function is significantly disturbed if obesity starts early, compared to later life onset of leptin problems. Anorexia is a low-leptin starvation state. The adverse consequences of this eating disorder on reproductive health and fertility are well documented." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"That is why anorexia nervosa is more prevalent today than it was 60 years ago when teenage girls were not continuously exposed to magazines and television shows which glorify the perfect body and a beautiful face.126 Now, guess again. Is it 60-, 70-and 80-year-old women who are most susceptible or is it girls of 12, 16 and 20? As you know, the answer is the younger group of mostly teens. But why? I will answer that question with three questions. Who thinks the most about looking good?" - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Bulimia, also known as bingeing and purging, is more common than anorexia, and usually affects teenage girls and women in their twenties. It involves a recurring, emotionally driven cycle of compulsive consumption of large quantities of high-calorie food in a short period of time, followed by induced vomiting. Some individuals also use laxatives, drugs that induce vomiting, diuretics, or excessive exercise in an attempt to purge. About 50% of anorexics also purge, and both bulimia and anorexia can coexist in the same person." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"It is widely believed that this contributes to the problem of eating disorders in teenage girls. Join the herd Lastly, one of the success mechanisms of advertising in terms of brain spam is the fact that these ads make you believe whatever they're showing in the ad is perfectly normal. They're making it look like millions of people do it, and it's something that's regular, everyday and routine. Even though they don't say it outright, they are implying that you should be drinking this soft drink because everybody else is drinking it." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Whether this sexualisation damages little girls at the time hasn't been established, but there's no doubt that, across the developed world, teenage girls are becoming sexually active at an increasingly early age. The collateral effects are also worrying-when children dressed up like dockside tarts throng the streets, it's scarcely surprising that paedophilia thrives (see Chapter 9). And as parents became more paranoid about paedophiles, social attitudes to children have changed." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"Every time these teenage girls stare at a beautiful young lady or read an article on looking good or attracting guys, their values are slowly but surely being changed—and the more likely they will become anorexic.131 My advice is to give up the magazines entirely and adopt and actively voice contrary values: "It is unhealthy to place too much value on beauty. The media has fooled me in the past, but from now on I am going to help influence others not to overly value beauty and fashion by not focusing on those issues." This will not work if it is simply done cognitively." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"The groups at highest risk for iron deficiency are infants under 2 years of age, teenage girls, women of childbear-ing age, pregnant women, and the elderly. Studies have found evidence of iron deficiency in 30 to 50 percent of people in these groups. For example, some degree of iron deficiency occurs in 35 to 58 percent of young, healthy women of childbearing age. During pregnancy, the figure is even higher. Iron deficiency may be due to an increased iron requirement, inadequate dietary intake, diminished iron absorption or utilization, blood loss, or a combination of these factors." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

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