Review
1. Your Invitation to Healthy Change. 2. Psychological and Spiritual Well-being. 3. Personal Stress Management. 4. The Joy of Fitness. 5. Personal Nutrition. 6. Managing Your Weight. 7. Social and Sexual Health. 8. Reproductive Choices. 9. Preventing Major Diseases. 10. Lowering Your Risk of STIs and Other Infections. 11. Avoiding Addictions. 12. Alcohol and Tobacco Use, Misuse, and Abuse. 13. Protecting Yourself, Your Rights, and Your Health. 14. Creating a Healthier Environment. 15. A Lifetime of Health.
About the Author
Dianne Hales is a successful health, fitness, and wellness author of several higher-education textbooks, including AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, 10th Edition; AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: BRIEF, Second Edition; and AN INVITATION TO FITNESS AND WELLNESS, First Edition, all with Thomson/Wadsworth. Dianne is also an accomplished journalist and trade author, having written JUST LIKE A WOMAN (Bantam, 2000), as well as CARING FOR THE MIND (Bantam, 1996), and THE MIND MOOD PILL BOOK (Bantam, 2001). She is also a contributing author to PARADE Magazine and LADIES HOME JOURNAL. Her success is due in large part to her extensive research into the latest developments in health, fitness, and wellness. Her engaging writing style, vivid examples, and creative pedagogy are highly effective in capturing and keeping students' interest. In her role as a journalist, Dianne interviews leading health, fitness and wellness researchers/experts and incorporates their insights into her textbooks. Dianne Hales is one of the few journalists to be honored with national awards for excellence in writing by both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association. Her writing awards include an EMMA (Exceptional Media Merit Award) for health reporting from the National Women's Political Caucus and Radcliffe College.