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

• 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