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Health and Wellness, Tenth Edition

Author(s): Gordon Edlin, PhD, Professor of Genetics Emeritus, University of California, Davis, California
Eric Golanty, PhD, Las Positas College
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763765934
  • Paperback    810 pages      © 2010
Price: International Sales $124.95 US List
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Health and Wellness, Tenth Edition is written in a personal and engaging style with specific tips and aids to help students improve their health habits.  This text encourages students to learn the skills they need to enhance the quality and longevity of life. Health and Wellness covers the many perspectives of personal health, including physical, emotional, mental, social, environmental, and spiritual perspectives, with a central theme of self-responsibility for one’s behavior.

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The For Your Health Study Guide and Self-Assessment Workbook is now available in the back of the book at no additional cost. Perforated pages allow lab activities to be submitted for evaluation and grading.

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The For Your Health Study Guide and Self-Assessment Workbook is now available in the back of the book at no additional cost.  It provides activities and self-assessments that help students apply key concepts and change unhealthy behaviors.  Perforated pages allow lab activities to be submitted for evaluation and grading.

Coverage of the detrimental effects of stress on health

Discussion on emerging environmental health problems such as chemicals that mimic human hormones

Expanded coverage of health insurance

Coverage of alternative medicines and prescription drug recalls

Discussion of the disparities in ethnic and racial medical care

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  • Chapter 2- Additional information on the power of prayer; relaxation/managing stress with music
  • Chapter 4- Information on the biological roots of some mental illnesses
  • Chapter 5- Additional information on Vitamin D Deficiency and Food Additives
  • Chapter 6-“Dollars and Sense” health box on overweight children, coverage of Body Dysmorphic Disorder
  • Chapter 7- Includes new information on the sedentary lifestyle of most Americans, what constitutes physical activity, components of physical activity, flexibility, body composition, physical activity and college students
  • Chapter 12- Information on Bacteria and Health; new vaccines—HPV vaccine, vaccine against herpes zoster, hepatitis E; added information on asthma; additional information on treating HIV/AIDS
  • Chapter 13- Information on lung cancer, curing childhood cancer
  • Chapter 14- Information on arterial fibrillation; information on the connection between laughter and heart health; information on the connection between caffeine and hypertension
  • Chapter 15- Added information on lactose intolerance; biomarkers for disease susceptibility
  • Chapter 16- Pharmacogenetics; the legalization marijuana use in some states
  • Chapter 17- How cigarette smoking contributes to a global health problem; information on the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Act passed in 2008
  • Chapter 19- Risks of getting medical procedures done overseas; medicalization of human traits and behaviors
  • Chapter 22- Herbal supplements to treat Alzheimer’s; how exercise can slow aging; anti-aging hormones
  • Chapter 24- Information on how the pollution in Beijing affected the summer Olympic Games; how to reduce one’s carbon footprint; information on the safety of water bottles 

 

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Part  One  Achieving Wellness
  Chapter  One  Achieving Personal Health
  Chapter  Two  Mind-Body Communications Maintain Wellness
  Chapter  Three  Managing Stress: Restoring Mind-Body Harmony
  Chapter  Four  Mental Health and Mental Illness
Part  Two  Eating and Exercising Toward a Healthy Lifestyle
  Chapter  Five  Choosing a Nutritious Diet
  Chapter  Six  Managing a Healthy Weight
  Chapter  Seven  Physical Activity for Health and Well-Being
Part  Three  Building Healthy Relationships
  Chapter  Eight  Sexuality and Intimate Relationships
  Chapter  Nine  Understanding Pregnancy and Parenthood
  Chapter  Ten  Choosing a Fertility Control Method
  Chapter  Eleven  Protecting Against Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS
Part  Four  Understanding and Preventing Disease
  Chapter  Twelve  Reducing Infections and Building Immunity: Knowledge Encourages Prevention
  Chapter  Thirteen  Cancer: Understanding Risks and Means of Prevention
  Chapter  Fourteen  Cardiovascular Diseases: Understanding Risks and Measures of Prevention
  Chapter  Fifteen  Heredity and Disease
Part  Five  Explaining Drug Use and Abuse
  Chapter  Sixteen  Using Drugs Responsibly
  Chapter  Seventeen  Eliminating Tobacco Use
  Chapter  Eighteen  Using Alcohol Responsibly
Part  Six  Making Healthy Choices
  Chapter  Nineteen  Making Decisions About Health Care
  Chapter  Twenty  Exploring Alternative Medicines
  Chapter  Twenty-One  Accidents and Injuries
Part  Seven  Overcoming Obstacles
  Chapter  Twenty-Two  Understanding Aging and Dying
  Chapter  Twenty-Three  Violence in Our Society
  Chapter  Twenty-Four  Working Toward a Healthy Environment
  Appendix  A  Health Enhancement Methods
  Appendix  B  Calendar of Events and Health Organizations
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Gordon Edlin, PhD-Professor of Genetics Emeritus, University of California, Davis, California

Gordon Edlin, PhD, has a bachelor's degree in physics from MIT and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Oregon. He was a professor of genetics at the University of California, Davis, for 22 years, where his research focused on the molecular biology of microorganisms. His interest in health was dramatically increased after he was tear-gassed on the Berkeley campus in the late 1960s while protesting the Vietnam War. Although his approach to health and medicine is scientific, he also has considerable experience with alternative medicines.

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Eric Golanty, PhD-Las Positas College

Eric Golanty has a bachelor's and a master's degree in biochemistry for the University of California - Berkeley and a PhD in human development and family studies from the University of California - Davis. He currently teaches personal health and human sexuality at Las Positas College in Livermore, California, where he also develops distance learning programs and trains faculty in educational uses of the Internet. Before joining the staff at Las Positas College, he taught human sexuality at University of California - Davis for 10 years and supervised peer health counseling and educator training in the health education program in the student health center.

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The goal of this textbook is to provide students with the information they need to understand and implement the basic principles of physical, mental, and spiritual wellness.  It is ideal for courses in:

  • Personal Health 
  • Health Education 
  • Personal Wellness 
  • Health Studies
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