Health for Life

Health for Life provides the keys necessary for adopting healthy habits and committing to healthy living in high school and throughout the life span. The text covers all of the components of personal well-being, including physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health. It provides students the knowledge in making healthy choices and fosters the skill development required for taking healthy actions.

Health for Life helps students in these ways:

• Analyze how key influences affect their health and wellness, such as family, peers, media, and technology
• Explore consumer topics and use appropriate resources to find answers to challenging questions
• Sharpen their interpersonal communication skills as they share health knowledge; debate controversial topics; demonstrate refusal, negotiation, and refusal skills; manage interpersonal conflicts; and promote healthy living among their peers
• Use decision-making skills and apply healthy living skills as they identify solutions to problems posed
• Evaluate their own health habits as they relate to a variety of behaviors
• Create goals for behavior change and establish plans for healthy living
• Communicate health information with family and advocate for healthy living at home and in their communities
• Discover how health and technology intersect on various topics

The text is divided into seven units of 20 chapters. The chapters help students explore a range of topics, including mental health, nutrition, physical activity, stress management, healthy relationships, avoiding destructive habits, and making good health choices throughout life.

Health for Life has an abundance of features that help students connect with content in personal ways and retain the information. Here’s a glance at some of those features:

• Lesson Objectives, Lesson Vocabulary, Comprehension Check, and Chapter Review help students prepare to dive in to the material, understand it, and retain it (standard NHES 1).
• Connect spurs students to analyze various influences on their health and wellness (standard NHES 2).
• Consumer Corner aids students in exploring consumer health issues (standard NHES 3).
• Healthy Communication gets students to use and expand their interpersonal communication skills as they share their views about various health topics (standard NHES 4).
• Skills for Healthy Living and Making Healthy Decisions help students learn and practice self-management so they can make wise choices related to their health and wellness (standard NHES 5).
• Planning for Healthy Living assists students in applying what they’ve learned as they set goals and establish plans for behavior change (standard NHES 6).
• Self-Assessment offers students the...read more...