The award-winning guide, now fully updated--everything every teenager (and parent of a teenager) needs to know about nutrition, health, fitness, emotions, and sexuality. This is the essential handbook for honest, forthright, up-to-date advice in dealing with every dilemma, doubt, and possibility facing teenagers at the threshold of the new century--including: * Overcoming "body image" anxiety * Drugs, drinking, smoking, and peer pressure * Sexual orientation and teenagers * Coping with depression, anxiety, and stress * Teen pregnancy, birth control, and parenthood * Sexually transmitted diseases * The latest information on fad diets, sports medicine, and medical advances * How to find confidential and effective crisis counseling * The best websites for teens, and more * Completely revised and updated * Cyber-appendix provides e-mail addresses and websites of valuable sources * Includes new sections on alternative medicines and therapies, and important new discoveries about ethnic differences in physical development * Offers new "QuickScan" feature to highlight important informative facts, plus easy-to-access reference charts, treatments, action plans, and more * The authors are experts in the field of health issues and young adults * Illustrated throughout