Making Life Choices

by Sizer, Frances Sienkiewicz; Whitney, Eleanor Noss; Debruyne, Linda Kelly

• ISBN13: 9780314016867
• ISBN10: 0314016864
• Edition: Student
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: West Group

Table of Contents

Unit 1 Introduction
Health Choices and Behavior	xvi
Unit 2 Your Emotional and Social Health
Emotional Health	22	(26)
Your Changing Personality	48	(26)
Stress and Stress Management	74	(28)
Emotional Problems	102	(30)
Unit 3 Your Physical Health
The Human Body and Its Systems	132	(30)
Nutrition: The Energy Nutrients	162	(22)
Nutrition: Vitamins and Minerals	184	(22)
Weight Control	206	(28)
Fitness	234	(34)
Maintaining a Healthy Body	268	(22)
Unit 4 Drug Use and Abuse
Drugs as Medicines	290	(20)
Drugs of Abuse	310	(36)
Alcohol: Use and Abuse	346	(24)
Tobacco	370	(28)
Unit 5 Disease Prevention
Infectious Diseases	398	(20)
AIDS and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases	418	(28)
Heart and Artery Disease	446	(22)
Cancer	468	(20)
Unit 6 The Life Cycle
Pairing, Commitment, and Marriage	488	(24)
From Conception through Parenting	512	(34)
Mature Life, Aging, and Death	546	(22)
Unit 7 First Aid and Safety
Accident and Injury Prevention	568	(24)
Emergency Measures	592	(32)
Unit 8 Global Issues
The Environment and Your Health	624	(28)
The Consumer and the Health Care System	652