An Invitation to Health, Brief Edition (with Personal Health Self-Assessment with Health Almanac and CengageNOW, InfoTrac Printed Access Card)

by Hales, Dianne

• ISBN13: 9780495111641
• ISBN10: 0495111643
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-29
• Publisher: Brooks Cole

Summary

You can learn it and live it with AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: BRIEF, Fifth Edition, the vivid and fascinating text that introduces you to research, information, and recommendations related to health and healthy lifestyles. Full of visual spark and written to encourage behavior change, this text's clear and engaging writing style addresses the issues related to health and wellness that affect college students now as well as the issues that you'll face in their future. You'll explore a broad range of topics, research, and examples that resonate with college life, and you'll learn the importance of changing poor behaviors-and how to go about changing those behaviors for good. With AN INVITATION TO HEALTH and its practical information that you can use now, you'll quickly learn to assess and change your own behaviors and apply your new knowledge to your life.

Table of Contents

An Invitation to Healthy Change

Psychological Health

Personal Stress Management

The Joy of Fitness

Personal Nutrition

Taking Control of Your Weight

Communication and Sexuality

Reproductive Choices

Preventing Infectious Diseases

Lowering Your Risk of Major Diseases

Drug Use, Misuse, and Abuse

Alcohol and Tobacco Use, Misuse, and Abuse

Protecting Yourself, Your Rights, and Your Health

Working Toward a Healthy Environment

Customizable option

A Lifetime of Health

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