Includes index.

Contents: The Mind: Shaping your health -- Achieving emotional maturity -- Managing stress -- The Body: becoming physically fit -- Understanding nutrition and your diet -- Maintaining a healthy weight -- Addictive substances: Choosing a drug-free lifestyle -- Taking control of alcohol use -- Rejecting tobacco use -- Diseases: Reducing your risk of cardiocvascular disease -- Living with cancer and chronic conditions -- Preventing infectious diseases -- Sexuality: Understanding sexuality -- Managing your fertility -- Consumerism and environment: Making consumer and health care choices -- Protecting your safety -- Controlling environmental influences -- The Life cycle: Accepting dying and death.