viii Essential Health Copyright Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc. Introduction to Health and Wellness . . . . . . . . . . 2 Chapter 1 Understanding Your Health and Wellness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lesson 1.1 Defi ning Health and Wellness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Lesson 1.2 Health and Wellness Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Lesson 1.3 Personal Skills for Health and Wellness . . . . . . . . . 21 Lesson 1.4 Our Healthcare System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Chapter 1 Review and Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Chapter 2 Risk Factors: Behavior, Genes, Environment . . . . . . . . . 36 Lesson 2.1 Factors Affecting Health and Wellness . . . . . . . . . . 38 Lesson 2.2 Behavioral Risk Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Lesson 2.3 Genetic Risk Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Lesson 2.4 Environmental and Socioeconomic Risk Factors . . . . 55 Chapter 2 Review and Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Nutrition and Food Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Chapter 3 Nutrition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Lesson 3.1 What Nutrients Does Your Body Need? . . . . . . . . . 68 Lesson 3.2 Creating a Healthy Eating Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Lesson 3.3 Food Labels and Food Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Chapter 3 Review and Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Chapter 4 Body Weight and Composition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Lesson 4.1 What Is a Healthy Weight? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Lesson 4.2 Factors that Infl uence Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Lesson 4.3 Treatment and Prevention of Weight Problems . . . 119 Chapter 4 Review and Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Chapter 5 Body Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Lesson 5.1 Factors that Infl uence Body Image . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Lesson 5.2 What Are Eating Disorders? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Lesson 5.3 Treating and Preventing Body Image Issues . . . . 147 Chapter 5 Review and Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Unit 1 Unit 2 Contents