Be healthy! it's a girl thing : food, fitness, and feeling great

A guide for adolescent girls on how to stay healthy and fit, with information on nutrition and exercise.;Connected -- Absolute Basics About Food -- How Food Works -- FYI: Your Heart -- Maintaining the Balance: Cactus Plan -- Cactus Plan's Nutrional Guidelines -- Food: Celebration of Life -- Taking Charge -- Being Vegetarian -- Germ busters -- Proper Shopper -- Food Labels -- How Great is This -- Right Moves -- Beautiful Presence -- You, the Amazing You -- Begin by Beginning -- Vitamin Chart -- Shopping List -- Index. Mavis Jukes is here to help girls learn how to be healthy so they can stay healthy. In this newly updated edition, Jukes and co-author Lilian Cheung, D.Sc., R.D. target what girls need to know in order to achieve an active lifestyle and how to avoid the pitfalls of body image issues. Readers will find basic nutritional information; ideas for safe exercising; tips on how to eat right no matter where they are; and lots of other kid-specific information on food, fitness and feeling great. From the Trade Paperback edition. Mavis Jukes is here to help girls learn how to be healthy so they can stay healthy. Be Healthy! targets what girls need to know in order to achieve an active lifestyle and how to avoid the pitfalls of body image issues. Readers will find basic nutritional information; ideas for safe exercising; tips on how to eat right no matter where they are; and lots of other kid-specific information--all written with the author's trademark energy and enthusiasm.From the Trade Paperback edition.