Essentials for Health and Wellness is a beautifully illustrated, full-color text that is supported by a comprehensive, author-written ancillary package that makes full use of today's technology. Written to be a more manageable text for the one-semester personal health course, Essentials for Health and Wellness gives your students the opportunity to become active participants in the learning process. You will find this book to be a masterful combination of modern health information presented in a dynamic format that is authoritative and speaks directly to today's student. The text consists of 17 chapters covering 350 pages, which makes for a more manageable book, and reflects the most current and accurate information available at the time of printing. Most of the full-length text's features have been retained in the brief book, and serve as a way of engaging your students in the issues and challenges that students face in promoting and maintaining a healthy life-style in the 1990's.