The Encyclopedia of Family Health and Wellness is the comprehensive resource set on topics of family health and wellness. With hundreds of clearly written and concise entries on diseases, health issues, human anatomy, environmental health, and more, the volumes are written to be easily accessible to middle school and high school students, as well as to adults with no medical training. Arranged alphabetically in 10 volumes, the up-to-date information covers all aspects of family health care, including entries on AIDS and STIs, alternative medicine, Alzheimer s disease, birth control and abstinence, hormones, Mad Cow Disease, and so much more. Colorful photographs, diagrams, and illustrations, with informative captions, appear throughout the books to complement the text, and websites for further reading are included as well. Ask the Doctor sections featuring questions posed by young people with answers from professionals punctuate the text and relate the entries to real-life health questions and dilemmas. Questions cover topics such as hygiene, adolescent mood swings, alcoholism, HIV/AIDS, virginity, and much more. These volumes provide an excellent foundation for understanding medical terms and diseases and are recommended for health classes at middle and high schools as well as for public libraries. Families and family resource centers will find these volumes to be extremely useful as well. This 10 volume set comes complete with two CDs: Interactive CD with content-related activities, and 2. browsable CD. - Written by an MD specializing in adolescent and pediatric medicine - 10 volumes, each with 96 pages, in a legible and easy-to-read 8-1/2 x 11 format - 2 CDs one interactive CD with fun activities to engage today s tech-savvy kids; the other a browseable text CD for easy desktop use - Over 500 easy-to-understand and straightforward entries - Over 900 full-color illustrations, diagrams, photos, charts, tables, and more - Ask the Doctor sections that punctuate the pages, with over 200 real-life questions from young people with straightforward answers - Did You Know? boxes that are scattered throughout the text, providing interesting historical background and new information to complement the more factual text - A useful section on emergency first aid - A helpful index in each volume - A glossary of important health and medical terms and concepts in each volume - A listing of informative Web sources for further reading in each volume

Encyclopedia of Family Health & Wellness

Reference

Elise Devore Berlan

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

AlphaHouse Publishing

One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of five. Every year, about 15 million children die of hunger. Malnutrition doesn t just occur in poor countries; poor nutrition happens in rich countries, too, where the popularity of highly processed foods, robbed of their nutritional value, can lead to health problems. This important book sheds light on why people aren t getting the sustenance they need to live healthy lives, and how the body reacts when it is malnourished. Malnutrition & Kids provides a comprehensive study of malnutrition: what the body needs and how it uses food; what causes famines and why people can t get the food they need; and much more. The book uses the latest educational methods to make the topic understandable to children: -- Simple and concise explanations make complicated health topics easy enough for young readers to understand. -- Color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations make malnutrition real for visual learners. -- A young person who experienced malnutrition firsthand shares his story. -- Information on the latest research and medical advancements is included. -- Ask the Doctor sections connect a licensed health practitioner with children s real questions about malnutrition. -- Inside/Outside perspectives help young learner grasp what malnutrition looks like both inside the body and outside. -- Boxed glossary words on every page define unfamiliar terms for kids. -- Did You Know? boxes round out readers information on the various topics. -- Just the Facts boxes summarize each chapter in easily understood, bite-size packages. -- A Find Out More section directs readers to additional resources found on the Internet. -- A learning map helps readers organize new information.

Malnutrition & Kids (Kids' Guide to Disease & Wellness)

Children's Books

Rae Simons

Growing Up & Facts of Life

AIDS & Society covers the broad range of HIV- and AIDS-related issues as they have impacted and changed human society throughout the world. AIDS and HIV have affected politics and governmental policy, health care treatment, family life, dating and sex practices, sex education, and much more. The disease has especially deeply impacted people living in developing countries, with 95% of the estimated 33.2 million people living with HIV residing in third-world countries, as reported by the UNAIDS, as well as the poor and less educated in many other countries. The book explains how AIDS and HIV take their toll on familial, regional, and global economies in many ways; how the stigma of having AIDS/HIV permeates societies and can result in violence and discrimination; and how education and treatment are necessary in all segments of society and throughout the world. AIDS & Society uses an abundance of special features to capture the interest of students: * over 60 full-color photos and illustrations * ask the expert sections, providing real answers to insightful questions * find out more sections, directing readers to additional resources * glossaries of terms at the beginning of each chapter, reinforcing important terms * real-life stories and events, providing examples to reinforce the text * excerpts from primary sources, modeling document-based questions and answers, providing cross-curriculum links

AIDS & Society (All About AIDS)

Self-Help

Sheila Nelson

Relationships

Nutrition & Society takes a broad view of society and presents nutrition in many contexts, including nutrition and cultural society, exploring the nutrition and dietary habits and customs in many cultures of the world; popular culture and nutrition, examining food fads and diets and food advertising and the portrayal on TV and in movies; geography and nutrition, looking at how local produce and food products influence diet and nutrition and how food is shipped around the world; and nutrition in social history, relating how the idea of what constitutes good nutrition has changed over the course of time. This insightful volume compares how American teenagers look at food and nutrition with the nutritional food and nutrition habits of their counterparts in Asia, South America, Africa, Europe, and other regions. Nutrition & Society provides a variety of informative and visually appealing features to enhance the text: * over 60 full-color photos and illustrations * ask the expert sections, providing real answers to insightful questions * find out more sections, directing readers to additional resources * glossaries of terms at the beginning of each chapter, reinforcing important terms * real-life stories and events, providing examples to reinforce the text * excerpts from primary sources, modeling document-based questions and answers, providing cross-curriculum links. This enlightening and fascinating book gives students a new perspective on nutrition and society as it relates to their life and throughout the world.

Nutrition & Society (Nutrition: A Global View)

Zachary Chastain

Nutrition & You is a timely addition to your library, providing a unique view of individual nutrition as well as how it impacts the individual, the community, and the world. This engaging book provides a comprehensive overview of nutrition and then focuses on how nutrition affects health in so many ways physical growth and development, metabolism and energy level, mood and mental health, cognitive ability, and more. Also explored are nutritional issues of importance and interest to today s youth: proper nutrition for best athletic performance, potentially dangerous societal pressures to be thin, the increase of obesity and how this puts kids at increased risk for health problems, and much more. The book includes a special section that encourages students to set personal nutritional goals and provides helpful charts and advice for meeting those goals. Today s students are growing up in an increasingly global society, and this volume addresses that by giving students ideas on how global nutrition affects them and what they can do to help. Nutrition & You includes a variety of special features to engage students interest: * over 60 full-color photos and illustrations * ask the expert sections, providing real answers to insightful questions * find out more sections, directing readers to additional resources * glossaries of terms at the beginning of each chapter, reinforcing important terms * real-life stories and events, providing examples to reinforce the text * excerpts from primary sources, modeling document-based questions and answers, providing cross-curriculum links * a special section that helps students set personal nutritional goals. This valuable book is sure to educate students on nutritional issues of importance to them now and as they take their place in our increasingly global society.

Nutrition & You (Nutrition: A Global View)

Ida Walker

<p>Pollution in our air is an important health concern that is said by the World Health Organization to cause the deaths of over 2.4 million people each year. This absorbing book covers the history, causes, symptoms, measurement, and prevention and regulation efforts of air pollution. The history of air pollution is described, including the major incidents of severe air pollution, including the 1952 London Fog, the Bhopal Disaster in India in 1984, and the current state of Beijing, host of the 2008 Summer Olympics, now considered as having the lowest air quality in the world today. The book covers how ozone depletion affects health; what is ground-level air pollution and its effect on health; what is acid rain; and how global warming and air pollution are related. It also discusses indoor air pollution in detail. Health symptoms, such as emphysema, asthma, cancer, and heart disease, resulting from breathing contaminated air are described as well. The book thoroughly explains how our air becomes polluted and the major sources of pollution and discusses how governments, industries, and individuals are striving to set and maintain standards to improve the air by such measures as regulation of the burning of fossil fuels and less harmful replacements, industrial effluence, cigarette smoke, aerosols, and more. Air pollution is a serious growing global concern since it is a major contributor to the Earth s global warming, and with some countries of the world becoming more industrialized, pollutant levels exceed air quality standards by large margins and endanger the health of residents and visitors. This essential book sheds light on a subject crucial to the health of humans and their environment. Air Pollution &amp; Health uses an abundance of special features to capture the interest of students: * over 60 full-color photos and illustrations * ask the expert sections, providing real answers to insightful questions * find out more sections, directing readers to additional resources * glossaries of terms at the beginning of each chapter, reinforcing important terms * real-life stories and events, providing examples to reinforce the text * excerpts from primary sources, modeling document-based questions and answers, providing cross-curriculum links</p>

Air Pollution & Health (Health & the Environment) (Health and the Environment)

Parenting & Relationships

Emily Sanna

Family Health

<p>You &amp; the Environment looks at the ways human health can be impacted by the environment around us and focuses on what the individual can do. This insightful book addresses how individuals can help to keep themselves and their families healthy and how they can contribute to cleaning up our environment. You &amp; the Environment uses an abundance of special features to capture the interest of students: * over 60 full-color photos and illustrations * ask the expert sections, providing real answers to insightful questions * find out more sections, directing readers to additional resources * glossaries of terms at the beginning of each chapter, reinforcing important terms * real-life stories and events, providing examples to reinforce the text * excerpts from primary sources, modeling document-based questions and answers, providing cross-curriculum links.</p>

You & the Environment (Health & the Environment)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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