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9780310240327

God's Design for the Highly Healthy Teen

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  • ISBN13:

    9780310240327

  • ISBN10:

    0310240328

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-01-30
  • Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub
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Summary

God's design for the highly healthy life provides a powerful balance of physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual health-even for the teen years! Teens face choices every day that either enhance or threaten their whole health. At school, through the media and friends, teens are hit with influences they have never faced before. Your teen needs your help now more than ever! -How can you coach your teen through the threats of drugs, alcohol, addiction, and sexually transmitted diseases? -What can you do about nutrition, eating disorders, self-image, and the frightening rise of obesity? -How does a parent respond to tattoos, piercings, and internet porn? -Is there a way to navigate the pressures of academics, sports, and over-commitment to find the healthy balance of stimulation and rest? -What physical changes are normal? When is it time to seek medical care? How do you find the best doctor? -How does a parent ease fears and adjustments, respect privacy, and intervene when needed? Good news. The doctor is in! Dr. Walt Larimore has seen it all-as a family physician, a dad, a medical journalist, and now your doctor on call. He equips you to powerfully protect and enhance your teen's health during these critical (and often scary) teen years. -ASSESS YOUR TEEN'S HEALTH: Use the simple 4 Wheels tool to identify the weakest "spokes' in your teen's health. -FIND THE SPOKE THAT'S BROKE: Zero in first where your teen's health is most out of balance. Discover timeless principles coupled with late-breaking research and answers to your questions. -BENEFIT FROM IMMEDIATE ACTION: Follow practical, achievable advice, resulting in positive changes in your teen's life. Discover how your teen can experience God's Design for the Highly Healthy Life.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Dr. Gary Chapman 13(2)
"The Doctor Will See You Now" 15(2)
Getting the Most Out of This Book 17(4)
PART ONE: THE START OF ADOLESCENCE
1. What Is a Highly Healthy Teen'?
21(14)
What is health?
What is a highly healthy teen?
What role does spirituality play?
The Bible's perspectives on health
A teen's four wheels of health-physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual
2. Assessing Your Teen's Health
35(20)
The four wheels of health
The physical wheel: exercise, rest, nutrition/substance abuse, and growth/immunizations
The emotional wheel: love/respect, affirmation/appreciation, media/ learning, and boundaries
The relational wheel: relationship with parents, family relationships, connectedness, and performance in school/extracurricular activities
The spiritual wheel: personal relationship with God, prayer, spiritual instruction, and spiritual activity
What the whole picture looks like
3. We Have Ignition: Preparing for the Puberty Years
55(20)
Navigating the explosive growth of the puberty years
Communicating with your teens about what to expect during the physical changes ahead
Staying one step ahead
Suggested ways to get "The Talk" started
The "precocious puberty" trend
The river of hormones now running through their bodies
Learning to speak their "love languages"
PART TWO: THE PHYSICAL WHEEL
4. You're Two-Thirds of the Way There
75(22)
An important teen health issue-driving at age sixteen
Breaking down your teen's growth
How boys' bodies will change in the next few years
Body hair, voice cracking, and even breast development in boys
How girls' bodies will change in the next few years
Breast development, pubic hair, and acne
Variations in the onset of puberty
Physiological changes
"Short stature" children
5. Finding the Right Examination Room
97(20)
Making the transition from a pediatrician to a family doctor
Remaining your teen's health care quarterback
The doctor's role-your teen's health care coach
Understanding the G-U-E-S-T acrostic as it relates to health care
How to find a doctor who respects your worldview and role as parents
Doing back-ground checks and asking around
Getting the most out of your health care plan
The right relationship between a doctor and a teen patient
What happens during boys' physicals
The importance for your teen boy to learn how to do testicular cancer self-examinations
What happens during girls' physicals
Why pelvic exams are not medically necessary during the teen years
What to expect if a pelvic exam is performed
The importance for your teen girl to learn to do breast self-examinations
Why and what immunizations are still needed during the teen years
6. The Cut Look and Cutting Looks
117(28)
Searching for the "cut" look
The steroid shortcut
The truth about supplements like creatine and ephedra
Sources of unbiased testing information regarding nutritional supplements
Couch potato kids
The expansion of obese teens in this country
Determining your teen's Body Mass Index
The principles of good nutrition
The differences between "good" calories and "bad" calories
Eating principles to live by
Fast food and fast calories
Parents who don't cook
The importance of eating dinner together
The latest teen trend: gastric bypass surgery
What to look for regarding anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorders
A pyramid for nutritional health
7. For Appearance Sake
145(20)
When your teens think they're ugly
Building self-confidence and self-image
The importance of the way teens look
When teens want to do something crazy to their hair
What to do about the rising popularity of tattoos and "body art"
Piercing eye-brows, navels, and places you don't want to know about
Fads that are way out there-tongue splitting and toe shortening
Why girls are having breast augmentation
Cosmetic surgery
Clearing up acne
PART THREE: THE EMOTIONAL WHEEL
8. The ABC's-and D's-of Nurturing Your Teen
165(18)
The ABCD's of emotional health
Affirmation
Blameless love
Connectedness
Discipline
Six keys to protecting your teens through discipline
Parenting styles
9. Escape into Ecstasy
183(20)
The rise of rave parties
Designer drugs: ecstasy and GHB
Drugs and date rape
The use of household goods as inhalants
What to say to your teens about drugs
When you suspect drug use
All about Ritalin and Adderall
How a family doctor can help
Testing teens for drugs
The power of the prescription pad for teen depression
Why teen smoking is the gateway to drug use
10. Home Channel Network
203(18)
TVs everywhere in the house-including teens' bedrooms
Messages broadcast in sitcoms and movies
Why you need to know what's in the movies and videos your teen is watching
Why teens who watch a lot of TV don't exercise and don't inter-act with the family
Why teens are online more than they watch TV
The pervasiveness of Internet porn
How today's media cuts into teens' sleep
The importance of rest for growing teen bodies
PART FOUR: THE RELATIONAL WHEEL
11. Family Matters
221(10)
The importance of being a role model for your teen
The link between the health of a family and the health of its children
Why fathers have never been more important
Moms will always remain a strong influence
Healthy steps for dysfunctional families
Healthy steps for single-parent families
Healthy steps for blended families
12. How Clear Is Your Teen's Connection?
231(12)
Connecting in the family
The importance of family mealtimes
Home activities for parents and teens
Connecting with friends
Supporting your teen's friendships
Connecting through school and extracurricular activities
Connecting with the workaday world
13. Getting All Hot and Bothered
243(26)
Why teen sex is such high-risk behavior
Why it's physiologically easy for teens to pick up sexually transmitted infections
The explosion in STIs in the last twenty years
What your teen needs to hear from you about sex
How everyone is not doing it
The importance of the father-daughter relationship with respect to premarital sexual activity
The "safe sex" message teens hear in school and in the media
What I say to teens about the importance of waiting
What I say to teens who've jumped the gun
A hot topic: masturbation
Guidelines for dealing with masturbation
What about homosexuality?
PART FIVE: THE SPIRITUAL WHEEL
14. Building on the Solid Rock
269(18)
The door to a relationship with God is open for only so long
The vast importance of parental spiritual input
Nurturing your teen's spiritual health
The concept of true spirituality
The power of a youth group
Letting teens find their purpose in life
Why Christian summer camps are great
What absolute truth is and why it's essential
The need for more Christian teens to believe in absolute truth
Plugging your teens into Contemporary Christian Music
Making church a "safe harbor" for your teen
PART SIX: TRANSITIONS
15. Into the Clubhouse Turn
287(8)
Preparing your teen for the independence and the responsibility of adulthood
The role you should play in health matters when your child moves out to attend college or get that first apartment
When your children go off your health insurance plan
Finding health insurance for your young adult
The importance of a physical before your child gets married
Letting go
Acknowledgments 295(4)
Notes 299(14)
Subject Index 313

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