An Invitation to Health: Live It Now! Brief Edition - Softcover

Hales, Dianne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 130511356X ISBN 13: 9781305113565

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 2015

Synopsis

Start making healthier choices now for a lifestyle of healthy living with AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: LIVE IT NOW! BRIEF EDITION, 9e. This market-leading personal health book helps you assess your health behaviors, encourages positive behavior change, and gives you effective ways to achieve it. Covering body, mind, and spirit, it addresses current issues related to health and wellness that can affect you now and throughout your life. Delivering the most current coverage available, it equips you with practical ideas and tools that you can immediately apply to your own life. "Health on a Budget" features demonstrate practical ways you can achieve your goals in low- and no-cost ways, while "Consumer Alert" features help you evaluat health care. AN INVITATION TO HEALTH helps you build your foundation for a healthier future.

About this title

About the Author

Dianne Hales is a widely published and esteemed journalist and author. In addition to more than 30 editions of college textbooks related to health, she is the author of 16 trade books, including LA PASSIONE: HOW ITALY SEDUCED THE WORLD; MONA LISA: A LIFE DISCOVERED; LA BELLA LINGUA; JUST LIKE A WOMAN; and CARING FOR THE MIND. Her books have been translated into many languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Korean. Hales is a former contributing editor for Parade, Ladies’ Home Journal, Working Mother, and American Health, and she has written more than 1,000 articles for national publications. She has received writing awards from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association; an EMMA (Exceptional Media Merit Award) for health reporting from the National Women’s Political Caucus and Radcliffe College; three EDI (Equality, Dignity, Inclusion) awards for print journalism from the National Easter Seal Society; the National Mature Media Award; and awards from the Arthritis Foundation, California Psychiatric Association, CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), Council for the Advancement of Scientific Education, and New York Public Library.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 130511356X
• ISBN 13: 9781305113565
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512