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• The Food Guide Pyramid
Explains how the pyramid is used to show the foods that make up a good diet.
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• The Fruit Pages
Educational fruit information, including ten reason to eat fruit, the fruit alphabet, and a newsletter.
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• The Great Escape
Print out and fill in this chart so you know how to keep safe if there is a fire.
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• The Health Resource Page
Find the nutritional content of food, health concerns, and self-help links and links to diseases, illnesses, and conditions.
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• The Healthy Lifestyle Leadership for Youth Group
Student project offers tips on diet, exercise, and diabetes prevention. Includes chat forum. [Free membership required for chat.]
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• The Hideout
Learn what domestic violence is, how to help a friend, how to understand your feelings and what you can do. [UK hotline numbers]
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• The Irreversible Health Effects of Cigarettes
Pamphlet available to download, from American Council on Science and Health. Quitting greatly reduces risks, but some effects of smoking are permanent.
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• The Juvenile Diabetes Forum
Interactive medical question and answer format about all aspects of juvenile (type 1) diabetes.
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• The Kid's Page
Features a winning D.A.R.E. essay, as well as a tribute to its 11-year-old author who was killed by a drunk driver a few months after writing the essay. Also lists D.A.R.E. activities in Warren County, Kentucky.
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• The Lupus Loop
Provides information for teens and preteens with Lupus.
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• The Otto Club
Otto the Auto gives safety tips and games teaching kids about traffic safety and to always 'buckle up'.
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• The Pediatric Network
Features articles, explanations, personal stories, and advice from teenagers and their families. Covers CFS, fibromyalgia, and similar conditions.
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• The Popcorn Board
Trace the history, learn geography, and play games featuring popcorn as a healthy snack.
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• The Real Deal on Repeating a Grade
Examines the many reasons someone may have to repeat a grade and suggests ways to cope with the situation.
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• The Red Balloon Learner Centre
Includes advice, letters and stories for those who are being bullied.
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• The Science Behind Drug Abuse
National Institute on Drug Abuse offers facts on drug use and the brain. Includes answers to common questions, real stories from teens with addictions, and games and quizzes to test teens' knowledge of drugs and their effects.
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• The Smoking Handbook
A description of tobacco and the effects of smoking, written by kids for kids.
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• The Surgeon General's Report for Kids About Smoking
Provides basic facts about tobacco and smoking. Also includes a look at what kids are doing from coast to coast to promote a smoke-free environment.
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• The Survival Guide for Kids with LD
Lists ten ways that kids with learning disabilities can make life easier for themselves at school. Includes quotes from affected children.
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• The Teen Pregnancy and Parenting Place
A place for teen parents and pregnant teens to get advice, support, and to meet others in similar situations.
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• The Walking Bus: Kidszone
Tells about road safety and safe routes to school. Play games, solve puzzles, find words, or take a quiz.
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• The War on Mercury
Updated information on the link between illness and mercury in dental fillings. Includes assertions, results from two Swiss studies, and biological dentistry.
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• The World's Fastest Clown: Kids Corner
Learn about the dangers of tobacco. Includes games, puzzles, coloring pages, and posters. [Requires Shockwave]
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• Thermy
Learn Thermy's rules for food safety. Play games, puzzles, and color pages. [Requires free Adobe Reader download.]
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• thetruth.com
Information on cigarettes, smoking, other tobacco products. HTML and Flash sections.
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• They're Rich, You're Dead
University of Miami School of Medicine's Tobacco Awareness Program for Community Youth. "We want you to see what we see in our hospital patients every day from the use of tobacco". Uses RealPlayer for video.
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• Thinkquest: All About AIDS
Bilingual site in English and Spanish by 7th and 8th grade students. A look at the facts and myths. Includes history, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. A winning entry in the October 2003 Thinkquest competition.
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• ThinkQuest: Down Syndrome
Features a young student who has Down Syndrome, class experiences, history, and education.
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• ThinkQuest: Drugs
Offers facts, consequences, and options to drug use. Includes discussion of marijuana, heroin, cocaine, tobacco, and alcohol. [No longer accepting story endings or emails to kids.]
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• ThinkQuest: Growing Up With Epilepsy
Two schoolchildren present the history, genetics, and effects of this disorder. Illustrated with drawings and a movie of visiting the neurologist.
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• ThinkQuest: Kids, All You Need to Know about AIDS
Explains the disease and tells about the latest treatments. Also includes tips for staying safe.
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• ThinkQuest: Nutrition On the Web
Learn about world nutrition, exercise, and common health myths. Use the diet planner or take a food quiz. (English, Spanish, and German)
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• Tics and Tourette's Syndrome
Learn about this childhood-onset condition, its treatment, and its implications for school and family.
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• Tiki's Guide to Food
Tiki the Penguin examines what food is, where it comes from, what's good, and what's bad.
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• Tinley Park DARE
Program information, DAREFest photos, game room and art gallery.
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• Tobacco Explained: Marketing to Youth
Heavily documented from the tobacco industry's own internal memos, reports on how the industry promotes cigarettes and smoking to youth.
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• Tobacco No Way
Information on health and tobacco.
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• Tobacco Tips 4 Kids
Printable tip sheets on everything from the dangers of tobacco to kicking the habit. From the Center for Disease Control.
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• Tone Teen: Take Charge of Your Health
Article tells how genes affect weight, how to get active, ways to watch what you eat, and staying healthy.
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• Tonsillitis
Description, symptoms, and treatment for tonsillitis provided.
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