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Chapter Twelve
Think Pink, Live Green™:
A Planet-Friendly Guide to Healthy Breasts
There's a lot you can do to make sure you're healthy, and it's really important now that you're growing up and developing.
Ivy, 19
I’m willing to change my ways and eat much better than I do as long as it’s easy and doesn’t cut into my allowance.
Jasmine, 13
Right after health class at school is my lunch block. Exactly what the class says we shouldn’t eat is all that’s available on the school cafeteria’s lunch menu.
Maddie, 15
Gym class has been cut back to once a week and all the non-varsity teams were cut, too. And the exercise room is now closed after school. Now I never get a chance to exercise.
Chelsea, 12
Just after our school ran a special fundraiser selling plastic water bottles with our logo on it – they took them back because of a ‘safety problem’. Everyone got their money back. Now I just buy my water from the soda machine.
Bianca, 13
I would like to know if there are any ways I could decrease my chance of getting breast cancer.
Amy, 10
My dad got on this big health kick and now most of the food around the house has no taste, looks gross, and has a weird texture. My friends don’t like eating over anymore. Now we go out to eat or I go to their house.
Akili, 19
I’m totally confused. One day they say that beans are all good. The next day chocolate, coffee and soybeans are out. A few months later, dark chocolate is voted in. Why can’t they agree on this stuff? It’s not like these foods are new.
Mary Kate, 17
What’s worse: gaining weight from regular sodas or the fake sweeteners in diet soda?
Donna, 15
My parents give mixed messages all the time. At home we have to eat super healthy, but as soon as we go out, everyone gets to order whatever they want within a certain price range (with no health guidelines).
Patty, 17
