Essential Concepts for Healthy Living

Essential Concepts for Healthy Living, Fourth Edition, is "the" critical thinking personal health textbook. It presents basic health-related information in an easy-to-understand manner by concentrating on key goals to help students learn and practice critical-thinking strategies. The Fourth Edition includes MyPyramid and the 2005 Dietary Guidelines. Students will discover the most recent scientifically-based personal health information; think critically about the reliability of health-related information distributed by various sources; and apply personal health information to their lives.