Health: Making Life Choices, Second Edition

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780658011184
• ISBN10: 0658011189
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-11
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Making Life Choices is What Good Health is All About!Health: Making Life Choicesgives students the important decision-making skills and information they need to promote their own good health. It teaches the self-responsibility and skills needed to allow students to make wise lifestyle choices--the key to living a long and happy life. Topics include: Family Life, Dealing with Conflicts, Alternative Therapies, The Environment and Your Health, Teenagers and Violence, and Refusal Skills.

Table of Contents

Text Chapter Titles

1. Health Choices and Behavior

2. Emotional Health

3. Your Changing Personality

4. Stress and Stress Management

5. Emotional Problems

6. The Human Body and Its Systems

7. Nutrition: The Nutrients

8. Nutrition: Weight Control

9. Fitness

10. Your Body: An Owner's Manual

11. Drugs and Medicine

12. Drugs of Abuse

13. Alcohol: Use and Abuse

14. Tobacco

15. Infectious Diseases

16. Sexually Transmitted Diseases

17. Lifestyle Diseases: Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer

18. Pairing, Commitment, and Marriage

19. Family Life

20. From Conception Through Parenting

21. Mature Life, Aging, and Death

22. Accident and Injury Prevention

23. Emergency Measures

24. The Environment and Your Health

25. The Consumer and the Health Care System