Ashton's "Body Scoop for Girls"

CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton has penned a book geared specifically toward growing girls.

"The Body Scoop for Girls: A Straight-Talk Guide to a Healthy, Beautiful You," a no-holds-barred guide for teens and tweens, is now in stores.

Read an Excerpt of "The Body Scoop for Girls"

In it, Ashton, an OB-GYN who specializes in adolescent care, addresses real-life questions teens and tweens have about their changing bodies -- and how to make smart choices.

Among the topics addressed in "Body Scoop": breast development, sex, birth control, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), eating disorders, depression and hormone imbalance, grooming and body piercings.

Ashton says, "I found that teens and tweens just didn't have a clue about their bodies, and no one (parents, teachers, friends) was giving them the right information. I wanted to be the person to make a real difference in their adolescent years; I wanted to give them the inside scoop on their bodies so that they would be empowered!"

Ashton will discuss many of the topics from her new book later this week, on "The Early Show."

[farmerjack1]

writer10 is the only sane comment on here. Pardon the french comment if is in the same vein but i cant translate it. Notice how writer10 also used less words to make her point. I agree with her outlook and there is another great book from Goofy Foot Press that is also a great resource for informing teenagers about these issues.

[obseann]

I am sick and disgusted after watching this morning's segment with Ashton telling these teenage girls how necessary it was that they use the pill.Also at the end of the segment, she was telling Maggie Rodriguez that parents just need to accept the fact that their children will be having sex and make sure they have contraception. The pill causes cancer, especially among young girls, and many other negative health effects. the pill also kills embryos, by "preventing nidation", which means it doesn't allow the embryo to implant in the uterus. telling teenagers that the pill will keep them from becoming pregnant WILL lead to higher STD rates because kids are naive enough to believe that their partner is not cheating on them and therefore why use a condom? The CBS early show has always been my favorite (I like Ms. Rodriguez in particular) among the early morning news shows, but this segment so disgusted me that I will never watch the show again. Also yesterday I saw someone on the show recommending Planned Parenthood as a way to save money on medical bills- it seems like your show is in love with anyone who kills babies. anyway, I pray that God will give you all the grace to experience a conversion and stop targeting our children.

[99dewey]

I just watched segment with teenage girls. I am upset with information and attitude of CBS on this topic. My two daughters are now adults. When they were teenagers, during the late 1990's, the new word was "hooking up." Girls around them had casual sex, or oral sex, with whomever! This is a no win for girls. I believe girls are still getting the wrong message about sex and their bodies. All around them, people, adults or media encourage them to focus on their bodies. Telling young girls that the birth control pill helps with acne or prevents cancer is just the wrong. Birth control pill gave us all a new choice, but now it seems to push them to make the wrong choice. Girls need more communication with other women, more often. Just saying we should discourage early sex and then promoting the birth control pill in another breath is speaking with forked tongue and trying to be so "real" and current instead offering sound advice about what is happening to their bodies during these years.