An Invitation to Health: Choosing to Change, 14th Edition

Current, comprehensive, and personal, Dianne Hales’s AN INVITATION TO HEALTH CHOOSING TO CHANGE integrates a comprehensive presentation of health concepts with a wealth of practical ways to apply them to your life–body, mind, and spirit. With the complete texbook program, you have an outstanding set of tools to help you understand the positive benefits of good health behaviors and master the steps that empower you to accomplish that change in your own life. Each chapter includes content and applications such as “Learn It/Live It,” “Goal Setting,” “Your Strategies for Change,” “Your Strategies for Prevention,” and “Your Life Change Coach” sections, all of which help you on your way to setting and attaining your goals for a healthier lifestyle. Because personal choice is an important component of changing for lifelong healthy living, the text also includes “Reality Check” and “Point/CounterPoint,” two new features designed to sharpen your critical thinking and analytical skills–the keys to making informed choices for positive change. Along the way, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, 2009-2010 Edition, provides relevant examples, colorful photos, figures, and new research and statistics, as well as “Student Snapshots,” art, tables, and references that reflect the most current thinking on every topic. Through CengageNOW, the text also includes a wealth of powerful learning tools to help you maximize your study efforts.

Table of Contents

Section 1 Taking Charge Of Your Health
Chapter 1 Your Invitation To Healthy Change
Chapter 2 Psychological And Spiritual Well-Being
Chapter 3 Personal Stress Management 65
Chapter 4 Taking Care Of Your Mind

Section 2 Healthy Lifestyles
Chapter 5 Th E Joy Of Fitness
Chapter 6 Personal Nutrition
Chapter 7 Managing Your Weight

Section 3 Responsible Sexuality
Chapter 8 Communicating And Relating
Chapter 9 Personal Sexuality
Chapter 10 Reproductive Choices

Section 4 Avoiding Health Risks
Chapter 11 Avoiding Addictions
Chapter 12 Alcohol Use, Misuse, And Abuse
Chapter 13 Tobacco Use, Misuse, And Abuse

Section 5 Protecting Your Health
Chapter 14 Preventing Major Disease
Chapter 15 Avoiding Infectious Diseases
Chapter 16 Lowering Your Risk Of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Chapter 17 Getting Quality Traditional And Nontraditional Health Care
Chapter 18 Protecting Yourself From Injury, Violence, And Victimization
Chapter 19 Creating A Healthier Environment
Chapter 20 A Lifetime Of Health