Dr. Beth Morphis / Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center
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Your Health: The Greatest
Key to Looking Your Best!
By Dr. Beth Morphis
Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center
A teen girls’ self image is a big part of who she is and who she
thinks she is! Let’s face it, teens today are faced with a whole
different set of stressors than teens even twenty years ago.
With access to magazines, television, technology, and social media, teen girls get all sorts of
mixed messages about how they are supposed to look and feel.
As a parent, it is most important that we teach these young girls that who they are is more
than what they see in the mirror. As many of us have always heard, “Beauty comes from within!” The best thing that we can do to promote a good self-image is to promote a healthy girl…
healthy physically and emotionally!
The physical part is well reported. Teens need to eat the right foods