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Oftentimes the best way to stay healthy is to take action before illness is present.

Our understanding of health has also expanded beyond the physical realm. We now talk about mental health, too. That makes sense, because we now understand that many mental health issues are actually connected to physical issues; the condition of depression, for instance, can at least partly be traced to problems with brain chemicals like serotonin. Addiction has also been recognized as a disease— one with very different symptoms from diseases of the body, but a disease nonetheless. Over the years, we’ve come to understand that our physical well-being (the absence of disease) is connected to, and even inseparable from, our mental and emotional well-being.

Teen Guides to Health & Wellness: School and Your Health

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