Welcome to Current Health 1

Dear Teachers,

Welcome to Current Health 1

Autumn is here, and so is Current Health 1, with an October issue full of articles and ideas to share with your students.

This month’s articles look at service dogs, young runaways, knee injury, snitching or being a “tattle tale,” energy bars, and our cover story is about ways young people can gain self-confidence.

Need reproducible activities? Download them as pdf documents by clicking “Reproducibles” above, or go directly to weeklyreader.com/teachers/current_health_1/CH1Reproducibles/.

Don’t forget to check out our revitalized Get Up and Go program. In addition to two pages in the magazine each month, our Web extension features downloadable pages for each month, our Get Up and Go Personal Planner, and a chance for students to learn more about themselves and their “exercise personality” by taking our online quiz. Check it all out at weeklyreader.com/teens/get_up_go/index.asp

Have questions or comments? Let us know! Contact us via e-mail at currenthealth@weeklyreader.com or write to us at Current Health 1, Weekly Reader Publishing, 1 Reader’s Digest Road, Pleasantville, NY 10570-7000.

Issue links

Links to sites relating to the October 2008 issue of Current Health 1

“Working Dogs,” p.8

Delta Society: www.deltasociety.org

East Coast Assistance Dogs: www.ecad1.org

Psychiatric Service Dog Society: www.psychdog.org

Dogs for the Deaf: www.dogsforthedeaf.org

“No Place to Go,” p. 12

National Runaway Switchboard: www.1800runaway.org

Safe Place: www.nationalsafeplace.org

“Big League Injuries,” p. 16

Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation, developers of the Prevent Injury and Enhance Performance (PEP) program: www.aclprevent.com

“The Uneven Playing Field,” The New York Times, May 11, 2008: www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/magazine/11Girls-t.html

“Should You Ever Be a Snitch?” p. 19

National Safe Schools Week, Oct. 19–25, 2008: www.safeschoolsweek.org

“Raising the Bar,” p. 22

Granola Fruit Bars recipe: www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Granola-Fruit-Bars

Learn how energy bar wrappers are turned into new products: www.terracycle.net/cbb/cbb.htm

“How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label,” Food and Drug Administration: www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/foodlab.html

“Yes, I Can!” p. 26

Links to sites on self-esteem, from Tufts University: www.cfw.tufts.edu/topic/4/81.htm

Safety Zone, “Ghastly Gas,” p. 30

Information on carbon monoxide from the Environmental Protection Agency: www.epa.gov/iaq/co.html

Carbon monoxide detectors and how they work: chemistry.about.com/od/howthingswork/a/codetectors.htm

Misc. links from the issue:

World Flying Disk Federation: www.wfdf.org

Turtles as Pets: information from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov/HEALTHYPETS/spotlight_an_turtles.htm

Scleroderma Foundation: www.scleroderma.org

Fruit Tree Planting Foundation’s Fruit Tree 101 program: www.ftpf.org/fruittree101.htm