Choosing Health, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (January 5, 2017) © 2018

  • April Lynch East Carolina University
  • Karen Vail-Smith East Carolina University
  • Jerome Kotecki Ball State University
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For courses in personal health.

Helping students understand that their actions and behavior matter

Choosing Health uses real-life applications, behavior change tools, and mobile technologies to speak to today's students better than any other brief personal health textbook. With its bold design and inclusion of real student stories, this text is the one that students can most relate to--and the one that will most inspire them to choose a healthy lifestyle.

  • 1.  Health in the 21st Century  
  • 2.  Psychological Health  
  • 3.  Stress Management  
  • 4.  Sleep, Your Body, and Your Mind  
  • 5.  Nutrition and You  
  • 6.  Physical Activity
  • 7.  Body Image, Body Weight  
  • 8.  Addictions and Drug Use
  • 9.  Alcohol and Tobacco Use and Abuse
  • 10.   Social Relationships and Communication   
  • 11.   Sexuality, Contraception, and Reproductive Choices
  • 12.   Preventing Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections  
  • 13.   Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer  
  • 14.   Consumer Health  
  • 15.   Personal Safety and Injury Prevention  
  • 16.   Your Environment, Your Health

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