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Invitation to health

This textbook integrates a presentation of health concepts with practical ways to apply them to your life -- body, mind, and spirit. The author provides a set of tools that help to understand the positive benefits of good health behaviors and master the steps that empower readers to change their lives. Each chapter includes content that helps to attain goals for a healthier lifestyle. Because personal choice is an important component of changing for lifelong healthy living, the text also includes features designed to sharpen critical thinking and analytical skills -- the keys to making informed choices for positive change. Along the way the author provides examples, photos, figures, new research and statistics, art, tables, and references that reflect the most current thinking on every topic.

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  • "This textbook integrates a presentation of health concepts with practical ways to apply them to your life -- body, mind, and spirit. The author provides a set of tools that help to understand the positive benefits of good health behaviors and master the steps that empower readers to change their lives. Each chapter includes content that helps to attain goals for a healthier lifestyle. Because personal choice is an important component of changing for lifelong healthy living, the text also includes features designed to sharpen critical thinking and analytical skills -- the keys to making informed choices for positive change. Along the way the author provides examples, photos, figures, new research and statistics, art, tables, and references that reflect the most current thinking on every topic."@en
  • "This textbook provides an introduction to research, information, and recommendations related to health and healthy lifestyles. Written to encourage behavior change, it addresses issues related to health and wellness that affect college students now as well as the issues that they'll face in their future. The author presents material that ranges from psychological health and nutrition to stress management, personal sexuality, avoiding health risks, preventing injury, and health and aging."@en
  • ""The third Canadian edition of An Invitation to Health offers new information, research, and resources that encourage behavioural change while providing practical ways to achieve it. This edition is designed to meet the needs of Canadian students and instructors in faculties of Health, Health Science, Physical Education, Kinesiology, Police Foundations and Education. In addition to providing up-to-the-minute information in an ever-evolving field, this edition also provides deeper Canadian content; a balance between content and application; updated figures, photos, and tables; and new interactive elements to allow students to truly learn the material and live it." -- Page 4 of cover."

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