Health and Wellness Guide for Young Women

Knowledge is power, therefore getting informed about women’s health issues at a young age is important. Many young women feel invincible during their prime years. However their body and mind will catch up with them eventually. Empowering young women to steer clear of risky behaviors, such as unsafe sex and illicit drug use is important. Staying informed about important topics, such as nutrition, fitness, sexual and emotional health, and general development and educating others about these issues can help adolescent girls and young women overcome these challenges.


Nutrition and Fitness


  • Sports and Nutrition: Fueling Your Performance: Learn why it’s important to fuel your body with plenty of proteins, vitamins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates, and water.
  • Nutrition of Women and Adolescent Girls: Wonder why nutrition maters? Elizabeth I. Ransom and Leslie K. Elde explain the importance of nutrition.
  • Nutrition: Women’s Extra Needs: Women need more nutrients than men, due to pregnancies, menstruation, and lactation. Learn about deficiencies a lack of these nutrients can cause and their overall importance.
  • Nutrition and Fitness: All about nutrition and fitness for young women.
  • Women’s Health and Nutrition: Information on nutrition during adolescents and into womanhood and what core food groups should be incorporated into a young women’s daily diet.
  • Nutrition: Explains the significance of choosing healthy choices for young women and teenagers.
  • Teen Health: Vitamins and Minerals: Teen girls and young women should learn what vitamins and minerals do for the body and how they are essential fuel for growth.
  • Fact Sheet: Women and Eating Disorders: Statistics, definitions of types of eating disorders, and complications that can arise if an eating disorder is not treated promptly.
  • 8 Fun Ways to Stay in Shape: Exercising and physical activities can be tons of fun when participating in these fun ways to stay in shape.
  • Staying Healthy: A great guide for girlfriends to help each other stay healthy.
  • Weight bearing for Women and Girls: Learn about bone mass and density in young females as well as information on how weight bearing can build strong bones and prevent osteoporosis because women are more prone to osteoporosis then men.

General Health and Development


  • Puberty, Periods, and Girls: Information about the physical changes that take place in adolescent girls when going through puberty.
  • Onset of Puberty: Describes the onset of puberty.
  • Menstrual Cycles: Learn about what happens during the menstrual cycle, the symptoms that occur due to having a “period”, and natural ways to provide relief to the accompanied pain.
  • Menstruation: Detailed information about menstruation and the menstruation cycle.
  • Choosing the Right Doctor: What to consider when choosing a primary care physician as a young women.
  • Information about Scoliosis: Scoliosis affects 2 percent of women and only 0.5 percent of men. Learn bout its causes, diagnostic testing, and treatment options.
  • Smoking and How to Quit: Learn about the reasons why young people begin to smoke and how they can quit their bad habit before it becomes dangerous to their health.
  • Drug Facts: A substance abuse study show shows the reasons why young women use drugs.
  • Staying Healthy at College: While colleges can bring about many new challenges, it’s important to maintain one’s health to succeed.

Sexuality and Sexual Health


  • Health Info and Services: Here you will find information on sexual health, including abortion, birth control, body image, pregnancy, sexuality, STD’s, and women’s health.
  • It’s Your Sex Life: Protect yourself from STDs and pregnancy by learning the details of sex and the affects that a lack of safe sex can have on your life.
  • Youth Resource: This website was created for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender young people who want to learn a holistic approach to sexual health.
  • Advocates for Youth: Visit the Sex Education Resource Center to find resources about sexual health and life planning.
  • Scarleteen: If you have a question, looking for support, need to find local health care, or just want to talk to other young women, Scarleteen provides these services and more.
  • Go Ask Alice: Find information and ask questions about sexual health, sexuality, relationships, emotional health, and other issues young women face.
  • Birth Control Contraception: A great resource for teenage girls thinking about sex.
  • Vaginitis and Vaginal Bacteria Infections: Learn about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments of common vaginal infections.
  • Vaginal Yeast Infection: Describes the symptoms and treatments of a yeast infection.

Gynecology and Reproductive Health



Emotional Health


  • Reach Out: Here you will find resources available for young women suffering from mental illness, depression, family or relationship problems, violence, alcohol and drugs, and other issues.
  • Teen Relationships: Adolescent girls can learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships and how to leave abusive ones.
  • Love Advice and Stories: Learn about healthy sex, relationships, dating, control, and abuse in relationships.
  • Girls, Women, and Stress: Information on why the economic downturn has caused increasing numbers of girls and young women to become more stressed then men.
  • Challenges and Choices: You can evaluate your challenges and choices that affect your self esteem.
  • The Effects of Divorce: Here you will learn about the effects that divorce can have on young women and their families.
  • Emotional Well Being: A guide to beating depression written by teen girls.
  • Young Adult Health: Anxiety: Learn what causes anxiety in young women, and the various types of anxiety disorders, such as panic disorder and phobias.
  • Depression in Women: Explains depression, symptoms and causes of depression in women.
  • Facts for Families: List of young women’s mental health topics, such as abuse, anxiety, eating disorders, grief, mental illness, and pregnancy.

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