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Achieve a healthier lifestyle -- physically, emotionally, socially and sexually -- with Tunks' AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, 21st EDITION. This new edition covers updated information on such topics as happiness and health, holistic approaches to mental health and anxiety, navigating social media, current dietary guidelines, immunization, safer sex practices, recognizing unhealthy trends in diet and fitness and the dangers associated with vaping. It contains new features on becoming a savvy consumer, cultivating an algorithm that is focused on proven health practices. The book's active learning strategies offer a special focus on healthy living on a budget, taking preventive measures for healthier outcomes and implementing practical strategies that turn small changes into big benefits.
List of contents
1. Taking Charge of Your Health.
2. Consumer Health: Making Informed Choices.
3. Emotional and Spiritual Well-Being.
4. Caring for Your Mind.
5. Stress Management.
6. Personal Nutrition.
7. Body Composition and Weight Management.
8. Physical Fitness and Lifetime Activity.
9. Communicating and Connecting.
10. Sexual Health.
11. Safer Sex and Contraception Options.
12. Sexually Transmitted Infections.
13. Major Diseases.
14. Infectious Diseases.
15. Addiction and Drugs.
16. Alcohol.
17. Tobacco and Nicotine Use.
18. Occupation and Financial Health.
19. A Healthier Environment.
20. A Lifetime of Health.
About the author
Dr. Lisa Tunks is a Health and Wellness Curriculum Design specialist who works with teaching professionals and editors to create student-centered curricula in an ever-changing learning environment. She has helped shape the landscape of teaching and learning excellence through effective accreditation and classroom practice both as a professor and administrator at Broward College. After over two decades of professional teaching in Florida, Dr. Tunks relocated to South Carolina where she focuses her professional energy teaching Public Health at Coastal Carolina University. Dr. Tunks holds a Masters in Exercise and Sport Science as well as a Doctorate in Higher Education from the University of Florida.?
Summary
Achieve a healthier lifestyle -- physically, emotionally, socially and sexually -- with Tunks' AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, 21st EDITION. This new edition covers updated information on such topics as happiness and health, holistic approaches to mental health and anxiety, navigating social media, current dietary guidelines, immunization, safer sex practices, recognizing unhealthy trends in diet and fitness and the dangers associated with vaping. It contains new features on becoming a savvy consumer, cultivating an algorithm that is focused on proven health practices. The book's active learning strategies offer a special focus on healthy living on a budget, taking preventive measures for healthier outcomes and implementing practical strategies that turn small changes into big benefits.
