Main description:

Start making healthier choices now for a lifestyle of healthy living with Hales/Tunks' AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, BRIEF EDITION, 12th Edition, This empowering text helps you assess your health behaviors, encourages positive behavior change, and gives you effective ways to achieve your health and wellness goals. Covering body, mind, and spirit, this edition provides ideas and tools that you can immediately apply to your own life. "Health on a Budget" features demonstrate practical ways you can achieve your health goals in low- and no-cost ways, while "Consumer Alert" features help you evaluate health care. AN INVITATION TO HEALTH is filled with active learning strategies, includes preventive measures for healthier outcomes and offers practical strategies that turn small changes into healthy outcomes.

Contents:

1. Taking Charge of Your Health.
2. Emotional and Spiritual Well-Being.
3. Stress Management.
4. Personal Nutrition.
5. Body Composition and Weight Management.
6. Physical Activity and Fitness.
7. Communicating and Connecting.
8. Sexual Health.
9. Reproductive Options.
10. Diseases and Disorders.
11. Consumer Health.
12. Addictive Behaviors and Drugs.
13. Alcohol and Tobacco.
14. Protecting Your Environment.
15. A Lifetime of Health.