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Health for Life provides the keys necessary for adopting healthy habits and committing to healthy living in high school and throughout the life span. The text covers all of the components of personal well-being, including physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health. It provides students the knowledge in making healthy choices and fosters the skill development required for taking healthy actions.

Health for Life helps students in these ways:

  • Analyze how key influences affect their health and wellness, such as family, peers, media, and technology
  • Explore consumer topics and use appropriate resources to find answers to challenging questions
  • Sharpen their interpersonal communication skills as they share health knowledge; debate controversial topics; demonstrate refusal, negotiation, and refusal skills; manage interpersonal conflicts; and promote healthy living among their peers
  • Use decision-making skills and apply

    Table of Contents

    Unit I. Understanding Health and Wellness

    Chapter 1. Introduction to Health and Wellness

    Chapter 2. Health Behavior Change and Personal Health

    Chapter 3. Choosing Healthy Lifestyles

    Unit II. Preventing Disease and Seeking Care

    Chapter 4. Understanding Your Body

    Chapter 5. Diseases and Disability

    Chapter 6. Emotional Health and Wellness

    Chapter 7. Health Care Consumerism

    Unit III. Embracing Priority Lifestyles

    Chapter 8. Nutrition: Foundations for Healthy Eating

    Chapter 9. Nutrition: Energy Balance and Consumer Nutrition

    Chapter 10. Physical Activity: Health and Fitness Basics

    Chapter 11. Physical Activity: Getting Started With Your Plan

    Chapter 12. Stress Management

    Unit IV. Building Relationships and Lifelong Health

    Chapter 13. Healthy Relationships and Family Living

    Chapter 14. Reproductive and Sexual Health

    Chapter 15. Health and Wellness Throughout Life

    Unit V. Avoiding Destructive Habits

    Chapter 16. Tobacco

    Chapter 17. Alcohol

    Chapter 18. Drugs and Medicine

    Unit VI. Creating Healthy and Safe Communities

    Chapter 19. Safety and First Aid

    Chapter 20. A Healthy Environment

    Chapter 21. Community and Public Health

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    A Paperback / softback by Karen E. McConnell, Charles B. Corbin, David E. Corbin

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      Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/05/2014
      ISBN13: 9781492500520, 978-1492500520
      ISBN10: 1492500526

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Health for Life provides the keys necessary for adopting healthy habits and committing to healthy living in high school and throughout the life span. The text covers all of the components of personal well-being, including physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health. It provides students the knowledge in making healthy choices and fosters the skill development required for taking healthy actions.

      Health for Life helps students in these ways:

      • Analyze how key influences affect their health and wellness, such as family, peers, media, and technology
      • Explore consumer topics and use appropriate resources to find answers to challenging questions
      • Sharpen their interpersonal communication skills as they share health knowledge; debate controversial topics; demonstrate refusal, negotiation, and refusal skills; manage interpersonal conflicts; and promote healthy living among their peers
      • Use decision-making skills and apply

        Table of Contents

        Unit I. Understanding Health and Wellness

        Chapter 1. Introduction to Health and Wellness

        Chapter 2. Health Behavior Change and Personal Health

        Chapter 3. Choosing Healthy Lifestyles

        Unit II. Preventing Disease and Seeking Care

        Chapter 4. Understanding Your Body

        Chapter 5. Diseases and Disability

        Chapter 6. Emotional Health and Wellness

        Chapter 7. Health Care Consumerism

        Unit III. Embracing Priority Lifestyles

        Chapter 8. Nutrition: Foundations for Healthy Eating

        Chapter 9. Nutrition: Energy Balance and Consumer Nutrition

        Chapter 10. Physical Activity: Health and Fitness Basics

        Chapter 11. Physical Activity: Getting Started With Your Plan

        Chapter 12. Stress Management

        Unit IV. Building Relationships and Lifelong Health

        Chapter 13. Healthy Relationships and Family Living

        Chapter 14. Reproductive and Sexual Health

        Chapter 15. Health and Wellness Throughout Life

        Unit V. Avoiding Destructive Habits

        Chapter 16. Tobacco

        Chapter 17. Alcohol

        Chapter 18. Drugs and Medicine

        Unit VI. Creating Healthy and Safe Communities

        Chapter 19. Safety and First Aid

        Chapter 20. A Healthy Environment

        Chapter 21. Community and Public Health

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