Essential Concepts for Healthy Living Update

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Jones & Bartlett Learning, 28 Jan 2011 - 628 halaman
Essential Concepts for Healthy Living, Fifth Edition Update provides students with a clear and concise introduction to the latest scientific and medical research in personal health. With its unique focus on critical thinking and analysis of health-related behaviors and attitudes, this text enhances students’ understanding of their own health needs and presents the scientific background necessary for students to think critically about the reliability of health-related information they encounter in the media. The Fifth Edition Update provides the most current data on a comprehensive array of health and wellness topics and issues. It includes the latest information on: Health Care Costs; Binge Drinking; Alternative Medical Therapies; Mental Illness and Depression; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Eating Disorders; Physical Activity and Health; Cervical and Prostate Cancer; Drug Use and Abuse, and much more.
 

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The Foundation for Life
1
Chapter 2 Psychological Health
29
Chapter 3 Stress and its Management
55
Chapter 4 Violence and Abuse
77
Chapter 5 Reproductive Health
97
Chapter 6 Relationships and Sexuality
135
Chapter 7 Drug Use and Abuse
163
Chapter 8 Alcohol and Tobacco
191
Glossary
499
Healthstyle
509
The SelfEsteem Inventory
517
How Much Stress Have You Had Lately?
521
Assessing Your Anger
525
Contraceptive Comfort and Confidence Scale
529
Male Sexual Quotient SelfAssessment Questionnaire
535
Are You Dependent on Drugs?
543

Chapter 9 Nutrition
225
Chapter 10 Body Weight and its Management
257
Chapter 11 Physical Fitness
283
Chapter 12 Cardiovascular Health
315
Chapter 13 Cancer
343
Chapter 14 Infection Immunity and Noninfectious Disease
379
Chapter 15 Aging Dying and Death
423
Chapter 16 Environmental Health
453
Healthy People 2010 Leading Health Indicators
477
Injury Prevention and Emergency Care
479
Dietary Reference Intakes for Patterns
486
MyPyramid
487
Eating Well with Canasas Food Guide
492
Why Do You Smoke?
547
Assessing the Nutritional Quality of Your Diet
553
How Much Energy Do You Use Daily?
563
Cardiorespiratory Fitness The Rockport Fitness Walking Test
567
What is Your Risk of Developing Heart Disease or Having a Heart Attack?
583
What Are Your Cancer Risks?
591
STI Attitude Scale
595
Preparing for Aging and Death
599
Poison Lookout Checklist
601
Index
609
Photo Credits
623
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Wendy J. Schiff MS, RDN received her BS in biological health/medical dietetics and MS in human nutrition from The Pennsylvania State University. She has taught introductory foods and nutrition courses at the University of Missouri Columbia as well as nutrition, human biology, and personal health courses at St. Louis Community College Meramec. She has worked as a public health nutritionist at the Allegheny County Health Department (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and State Food and Nutrition Specialist for Missouri Extension at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. In addition to authoring Nutrition for Healthy Living and Nutrition Essentials: A Personal Approach, Wendy has coauthored a college-level personal health textbook and authored many other nutrition-related educational materials. She is a registered dietitian nutritionist and a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

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