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This new Interactive Companion brings the world of Personal Health alive by providing hundreds of links to websites, video, and audio clips. In addition, students are further encouraged to explore relevant topics by participating in practice tests and activities. This market leading text employs a behavioral management approach, encouraging students to continuously assess and manage their personal health behaviors. The chapter on violence has been reorganized to explore both intentional and unintentional injuries. Expanded coverage of consumer ... MORE

Preface	p. iii
Finding the Right Balance
Promoting Healthy Behavior Change	p. 2
Putting Your Health in Perspective	p. 6
New Directions for Health	p. 11
Reducing Health Disparities: New Challenges	p. 19
Preparing for Better Health in the Twenty-First Century	p. 20
Gender Differences and Health Status	p. 21
Improving Your Health	... MOREp. 22
Choosing a Behavior-Change Strategy	p. 28
Changing Your Behavior	p. 32
Taking Charge
Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well	p. 38
Defining Psychosocial Health	p. 40
Factors That Influence Psychosocial Health	p. 48
Enhancing Psychosocial Health	p. 50
When Psychosocial Health Deteriorates	p. 54
Suicide: Giving Up on Life	p. 62
Seeking Professional Help	p. 64
Taking Charge
Managing Stress: Coping with Life's Challenges	p. 68
What Is Stress?	p. 70
The Body's Response to Stress	p. 70
Stress and Your Health	p. 73
Sources of Stress	p. 79
Stress and the College Student	p. 84
Managing Your Stress	p. 87
Developing Your Spiritual Side: Mindfulness	p. 94
Taking Charge
Violence and Abuse: Creating Healthy Environments	p. 98
Violence in the United States	p. 100
Costs of Violence	p. 101
Societal Causes of Violence	p. 101
Intentional Injuries	p. 105
Reducing Your Risk	p. 119
Unintentional Injuries	p. 122
Taking Charge
Creating Healthy and Caring Relationships
Healthy Relationships: Communicating Effectively with Friends, Family, and Significant Others	p. 128
The Communication Process: Getting Started	p. 130
Improving Your Communication Skills	p. 132
Characterizing and Forming Intimate Relationships	p. 139
Gender Issues in Relationships	p. 144
Overcoming Barriers to Intimacy	p. 148
Committed Relationships	p. 149
Staying Single	p. 151
Success in Relationships	p. 151
Having Children ... or Not?	p. 153
When Relationships Falter	p. 153
Getting Help	p. 155
Building Better Relationships	p. 156
Taking Charge
Sexuality: Choices in Sexual Behavior	p. 160
Your Sexual Identity	p. 162
Sexual Anatomy and Physiology	p. 165
Expressing Your Sexuality	p. 174
Difficulties That Can Hinder Sexual Function	p. 177
Taking Charge
Reproductive Choices: Making Responsible Decisions	p. 184
Methods of Fertility Management	p. 186
Abortion	p. 198
Planning a Pregnancy	p. 202
Pregnancy	p. 203
Childbirth	p. 210
Infertility	p. 214
Taking Charge
Choosing a Health Lifestyle
Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health	p. 220
Assessing Eating Behaviors: Are You What You Eat?	p. 223
Eating for Health	p. 224
Obtaining Essential Nutrients	p. 232
Can Food Have Medicinal Value?	p. 248
Gender and Nutrition	p. 254
Vegetarianism: Eating for Health	p. 256
Improved Eating for the College Student	p. 258
Food Safety: A Growing Concern	p. 260
Taking Charge
Managing Your Weight: Finding a Health Balance	p. 268
Determining the Right Weight for You	p. 275
Assessing Fat Levels	p. 276
Risk Factors for Obesity	p. 281
Managing Your Weight	p. 289
Trying to Gain Weight	p. 295
Thinking Thin: Body Image and Eating Disorders	p. 296
Taking Charge
Personal Fitness: Improving Health through Exercise	p. 302
Physical Fitness, Activity, and Exercise	p. 304
Benefits of Regular Physical Activity	p. 304
Improving Cardiorespiratory Fitness	p. 308
Why Are Flexibility and Stretching Exercises Important?	p. 312
Improving Muscular Strength and Endurance	p. 315
Body Composition	p. 318
Fitness Injuries	p. 318
Creating Your Own Fitness Program	p. 327
Taking Charge
Avoiding Risks from Harmful Habits
Addictions and Addictive Behavior: Threats to Wellness	p. 330
Defining Addiction	p. 332
The Addictive Process	p. 334
Types of Addiction	p. 337
How Addiction Affects Family and Friends	p. 342
Treatment for and Recovery from Addiction	p. 343
Taking Charge
Drinking Responsibly: A Lifestyle Challenge on Campus	p. 348
Alcohol: An Overview	p. 350
Physiological and Behavioral Effects of Alcohol	p. 353
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism	p. 361
Recovery	p. 366
Taking Charge
Tobacco and Caffeine: Daily Pleasures, Daily Challenges	p. 372
Our Smoking Society	p. 374
Tobacco and Its Effects	p. 378
Health Hazards of Smoking	p. 382
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)	p. 385
Tobacco and Politics	p. 386
Quitting	p. 387
Caffeine	p. 391
Taking Charge
Illicit Drugs: Use, Misuse, and Abuse	p. 396
Drug Dynamics	p. 398
Using, Misusing, and Abusing Drugs	p. 400
Illicit Drugs	p. 400
Controlled Substances	p. 402
Illegal Drug Use in the United States	p. 418
Taking Charge
Preventing and Fighting Disease
Cardiovascular Disease: Reducing Your Risk	p. 422
An Epidemiological Overview	p. 424
Understanding the Cardiovascular System	p. 428
Types of Cardiovascular Disease	p. 430
Reducing Your Risk for Cardiovascular Diseases	p. 435
Women and Cardiovascular Disease	p. 440
New Weapons Against Heart Disease	p. 441
Taking Charge	p. 447
Cancer: Reducing Your Risk	p. 450
An Overview of Cancer	p. 452
What Causes Cancer?	p. 454
Types of Cancers	p. 460
Facing Cancer	p. 473
Taking Charge
Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Risks and Responsibilities	p. 480
Assessing Your Disease Risks	p. 482
Types of Pathogens and Routes of Transmission	p. 484
Your Body's Defenses: Keeping You Well	p. 492
Emerging and Resurgent Diseases	p. 496
Sexually Transmitted Infections	p. 502
HIV/AIDS	p. 511
Taking Charge
Noninfectious Conditions: The Modern Maladies	p. 522
Chronic Lung Diseases	p. 524
Neurological Disorders	p. 529
Gender-Related Disorders	p. 532
Digestion-Related Disorders	p. 534
Musculoskeletal Diseases	p. 540
Other Maladies	p. 543
Taking Charge
Facing Life's Challenges
Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Process	p. 548
Growing Old: Life Passages	p. 550
Health Issues for an Aging Society	p. 553
Theories on Aging	p. 555
Changes in the Body and Mind	p. 556
Health Challenges of Older Adults	p. 561
Strategies for Healthy Aging	p. 562
Caring for Older Adults	p. 564
Taking Charge
Dying and Death: The Final Transition	p. 568
Understanding Death	p. 570
The Process of Dying	p. 571
Life-and-Death Decision Making	p. 578
Making Final Arrangements	p. 582
Taking Charge
Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally	p. 590
Overpopulation	p. 592
Air Pollution	p. 594
Water Pollution	p. 603
Noise Pollution	p. 608
Land Pollution	p. 608
Radiation	p. 610
Taking Charge
Consumerism: Selecting Health Care Products and Services	p. 616
Responsible Consumerism: Choices and Challenges	p. 618
Taking Responsibility for Your Health Care	p. 620
Choices in Health Products: Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drugs	p. 622
Choices in Medical Care	p. 630
Health Care Organizations, Programs, and Facilities	p. 632
Issues Facing Today's Health Care System	p. 634
Third-Party Payers	p. 636
Taking Charge
Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices and Responsibilities for Healthwise Consumers	p. 644
CAM: What Is It and Who Uses It?	p. 648
Alternative Medical System Options	p. 651
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