This Is Your Life!, the best in live-action theater, now in video, combines thought-provoking drama and rib-tickling humor to help adolescents build positive body image and improve their eating and exercise habits. Performed by dynamic actors who speak to students in their language, this video addresses the complex health issues affecting today's adolescents in a fun-filled, entertaining performance.

Adolescents Learn How To: 

• Reduce the alarming rates of eating disorders, harmful dieting practices, and tobacco use.
• Improve their eating and exercise habits in today's fast food world.
• Develop critical decision-making skills needed to see through media messages and peer group pressures.
• Discredit the narrow images of beauty promoted by the media and discover that every body is different, and different is a good thing.
• Prevent the bone-thinning disease, osteoporosis, while still in their teen years.
• Build self-esteem from the inside out—help them understand that looking and feeling good is the result of healthy lifestyle choices.

Kit Includes:

• One This Is Your Life! Video (VHS), Three Parts, 50 Min.
• One Hands-On Health: The Activity Guidebook for Working with Teens, 200 pages, appropriate for grades 5–12
  *You may also buy the Activity Guidebook separately.

Activity Guidebook Includes:

• Units on teen nutrition, body image, eating disorders, fitness, tobacco, stress, media literacy, and osteoperosis
• MyPyramid
  
• Hundreds of hands-on activities keyed to comprehensive heath education standards
• Role plays, theater games, interactive lesson plans
• Student, teacher, and parent handouts
• Health assessments and evaluations
• Recommended resources