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Take your Pick
Cool choices for managing your period

Get a move on!
Sabrina Bryan of The Cheetah Girls has a message for girls everywhere: have fun, get fit and be you. As the face of BYOU, a new dance work-out video, Sabrina is encouraging empowerment through healthy living.

Exercises For Your Back
Try this workout to get toned and ready for prom’s daring, backless dresses

Healthy Eating
Tips and Tricks for Healthy Eating

Recipe for Smoores
You’ll melt for s’more!

What’s up, doc?
Your most pressing health questions answered!

Diets Decoded
In a diet dilemma? The mystery of healthy eating is easily solved when you know the facts.

How to become a vegetarian
Knowing the power of plants (and what they lack) can fuel your mind and body Poll: Are you a vegetarian?

Healthy Lunches
Schools Prepare Healthier Lunchtime Options

Lighten Up!
The holidays are full of parties, shopping and tons of food. So much that the whole affair can easily get out of hand! Read on as experts share tips on how you can indulge this holiday season, yet still find time to stay fit, save cash, and CHILL OUT.

Your Holiday Diet Dilemma Solved!


Cultural Cuisine
Ever wonder what traditional Moroccan cuisine is like? Or maybe what Finnish families snack on? If the surest way to a person’s heart is through their stomach, then it’s got to be one of the best (and tastiest) ways to learn about their culture.

Legal Drinking Age
The dangers of drinking go far beyond a morning-after headache. Now there is talk in Ontario to increase the legal drinking age from 19 to 21 years of age.

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Beauty tips for getting ready for the Prom
Get Fit in Time For Prom! Prom is only one night, but it can take weeks to get yourself ready. From skincare and hairstyling to nutrition and excercise, vervegirl’s simplified it all into a 4-week plan.

Exercise Tips
Hot New Ways to Dance Yourself in ShapeTake the Vervegirl Poll. Do you exercise?

Sun Exposure
Vervegirl’s Summer Strategy to Help Save Your Skin

Should Teens have plastic surgery?
Should teens have plastic surgery to look good? The death of a Florida teenage cheerleader , Stephanie Kuleba, due to complications from breast surgery has once again brought the subject of breast augmentation for teens to the forefront. In Canada, surgery to correct asymetical breasts among teenage girls is the third most popular consmetic surgery for young women.

Preventative Medicine
Human Papillomavirus (HPV), more than 50 per cent of women might be infected with it before they turn 50. For some, there are no symptoms at all.

Healthy Eating
Eat healthy on the go! With busy schedules, pressures to eat like friends, and body image issues that make dieting commonplace, it’s no wonder that healthy eating isn’t at the top of the priority list for many teenage girls.

How Can Girls Maintain a Normal & Healthy Body Image?
It’s an extremely difficult time for young girls to be growing up. It’s hard for them to have any concept of reality when music videos and magazines are consistently airbrushing and warping the celebrities we look up to. It’s always a hard concept for me to grasp [that I am a role model] since I too have insecurities and am still deep in the process of figuring myself out and being comfortable in my own skin!

Crash Course on Vitamins and Minerals
From foods to supplements, vitamins and minerals are vital to your health

Green Living: Mind the Water Gap
Battling for water equality for green living across the globe. Turn on the tap. Pour yourself a glass of water. Now pour another. Keep pouring until you’ve got about 2,445 glasses full.

How Can Girls Maintain a Normal & Healthy Body Image?
It’s an extremely difficult time for young girls to be growing up. It’s hard for them to have any concept of reality when music videos and magazines are consistently airbrushing and warping the celebrities we look up to. It’s always a hard concept for me to grasp [that I am a role model] since I too have insecurities and am still deep in the process of figuring myself out and being comfortable in my own skin!

Workout DVD
Kick it into high gear with a workout DVD - something for everyone from beginners to experts.

Nutrition for Mental Health
What you eat affects how you feel BY LISA VAN DE VEN

Swim your Heart Out This March Break
If heading south for March Break isn’t in your budget this year but you are dying to bust out your bikini and fabulous faux tan, then a trip to The Wave Pool is a must.

Eat Healthy Foods for a Prettier You!
What you eat is as important as the beauty products you use to get gorgeous. A balanced diet rich in the right vitamins, minerals and antioxidants will give you that beautiful glow you’ve always wanted.

Tealish Brews Healthy Treats for St. Patty's Day
For us, St. Patrick’s Day is like an unofficial start to spring, what with the whole “green” theme and all.

The Big Bam! Self- Exam


Dealing with Stress
Finding healthy ways to deal with stress

Fast Acne Fixes!


Becoming a Vegetarian
Is going GREEN healthier?