Previous ed. has different subtitle: the power of prevention.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
section 1. Taking charge of your health -- 1. Your invitation to healthy change -- Health and wellness -- The dimensions of health -- A report card on the health of Americans -- Health disparities -- A report card on the health of young adults -- Staying healthy on campus -- Making quality health-care decisions -- Making healthy changes -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 2. Psychological and spiritual well-being -- Psychological well-being -- Feeling in control -- Spiritual health -- Sleepless on campus -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 3. Personal stress management -- What is stress? -- What causes stress? -- Stress and physical health -- Stress on campus -- Men, women, and stress -- Other personal stressors -- Responses to stress -- Traumatic life events and stress -- Organizing your time -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 4. Taking care of your mind -- The brain : the last frontier -- Understanding mental health -- Mental health on campus -- Depressive disorders -- Anxiety disorders -- Attention disorders -- Schizophrenia -- Suicide -- Overcoming problems of the mind -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you.
section 2. Healthy lifestyles -- 5. The joy of fitness -- What is physical fitness? -- The inactivity epidemic -- Physical activity and health -- The principles of exercise -- Improving cardiorespiratory fitness -- Building muscular fitness -- Drugs used to boost athletic performance -- Becoming more flexible -- Keeping your back healthy -- Body composition -- Evaluating fitness products and programs -- Sports nutrition -- Safe and healthy workouts -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 6. Personal nutrition -- What you need to know about nutrients -- Eating guidelines for Americans -- The way we eat -- Taking charge of what you eat -- Food safety -- Nutritional quackery -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 7. Managing your weight -- The global epidemic -- Body image -- Understanding weight problems -- Health dangers of excess weight -- If you're too thin : how to gain weight -- A practical guide to weight loss -- The psychology of losing weight -- Maintaining weight loss -- Treating severe obesity -- Unhealthy eating behaviors -- Eating disorders -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you.
section 3. Responsible sexuality -- 8. Communicating and relating -- Your social health -- Personal communications -- Nonverbal communication -- How men and women communicate -- Forming relationships -- Healthy relationships -- The science of romantic love -- Assessing a relationship -- Mature love -- Dysfunctional relationships -- Committed relationships -- Family ties -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 9. Personal sexuality -- Human sexuality -- Sexuality and the dimensions of health -- Becoming male or female -- Women's sexual health -- Men's sexual health -- Responsible sexuality -- Sexual behavior -- Sexual diversity -- Sexual activity -- Sexual response -- Sexual concerns -- Sex therapy -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 10. Reproductive choices -- Reproductive responsibility -- Conception -- Birth control basics -- Abstinence and nonpenetrative sexual activity -- A cross-cultural perspective -- Choosing a birth control method -- Barrier contraceptives -- Hormonal contraceptives -- Intrauterine contraceptives -- Fertility awareness methods -- Emergency contraception -- Sterilization -- Abortion -- Childfree by choice -- Pregnancy -- Childbirth -- Infertility -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you.
section 4. Avoiding health risks -- 11. Avoiding addictions -- Risky behaviors -- Gambling on campus -- Drug use on campus -- Understanding drugs and their effects -- Men, women, and drugs -- Caffeine and its effects -- Medications -- Prescription drug abuse on campus -- Substance use disorders -- Common drugs of abuse -- Treating substance dependence and abuse -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 12. Alcohol use, misuse, and abuse -- Drinking in America -- Drinking on campus -- Understanding alcohol -- The impact of alcohol on the body -- Alcohol, gender, and race -- Alcohol problems -- Alcoholism treatments -- Alcoholism's impact on relationships -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 13. Tobacco use, misuse, and abuse -- Smoking in America -- Tobacco use on campus -- Why people start smoking -- Why people keep smoking -- Smoking, gender, and race -- Tobacco's immediate effects -- Health effects of cigarette smoking -- Other forms of tobacco -- Quitting -- Environmental tobacco smoke -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you.
section 5. Protecting your health -- 14. Preventing infectious disease -- The power of prevention -- Your cardiometabolic health -- Metabolic syndrome -- Diabetes mellitus -- Hypertension -- Your lipoprotein profile -- Cardiovascular (heart) disease -- Crises of the heart -- Stroke -- Cancer -- Other major illnesses -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 15. Avoiding infectious diseases -- Understanding infection -- How your body protects itself -- Immunization for adults -- Common cold -- Influenza -- Meningitis -- Hepatitis -- Epstein-Barr virus and infectious mononucleosis -- Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) -- Herpes gladiatorum (mat herpes, wrestler's herpes, mat pox) -- Tuberculosis -- Group A and Group B strep infection -- Toxic shock syndrome -- The "superbug" threat : MRSA -- Insect- and animal-borne infections -- H1N1 virus and influenza (swine flu) -- The threat of a pandemic -- Emerging infectious diseases -- Reproductive and urinary tract infections -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 16. Lowering your risk of sexually transmitted infections -- The ABCs of safer sex -- Sexually transmitted infections and diseases -- Human papilloma virus -- Genital herpes -- Chlamydia -- Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) -- Gonorrhea -- Nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) -- Syphilis -- Chancroid -- Pubic lice and scabies -- Trichomoniasis -- HIV and AIDS -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 17. Getting quality traditional and nontraditional health care -- Getting quality health care -- Personalizing your health care -- Choosing a primary care physician -- Asserting your medical rights -- Elective treatments -- Getting quality nontraditional health care -- The health-care system -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 18. Protecting yourself form injury, violence, and victimization -- Personal safety -- Safety at work -- Safety at home -- Which gender is at greater risk? -- Living in a dangerous world -- Crime and violence on campus -- Sexual victimization and violence -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 19. Creating a healthier environment -- The environment and your health -- Climate change -- The impact on pollution -- The air you breathe -- Working toward sustainability -- The water you drink -- Indoor pollutants : the inside story -- Chemical risks -- Invisible threats -- Your hearing health -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- 20. A lifetime of health -- The aging of America -- Successful aging -- Sexuality and aging -- The challenges of age -- Preparing for medical crises and the end of life -- Death and dying -- How we die -- Suicide -- The practicalities of death -- Grief -- Learn it/live it -- Self survey -- Making this chapter work for you -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
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This textbook integrates a presentation of health concepts with practical ways to apply them to your life -- body, mind, and spirit. The author provides a set of tools that help to understand the positive benefits of good health behaviors and master the steps that empower readers to change their lives. Each chapter includes content that helps to attain goals for a healthier lifestyle. Because personal choice is an important component of changing for lifelong healthy living, the text also includes features designed to sharpen critical thinking and analytical skills -- the keys to making informed choices for positive change. Along the way the author provides examples, photos, figures, new research and statistics, art, tables, and references that reflect the most current thinking on every topic.