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Journey to Health
Mind, Body, Spirit | [CC]
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26 Programs:

#101 - Health: Begin the Journey
Defines good health and emphasizes self-responsibility for developing healthy lifestyles by showing how current choices can affect future health.

#102 - Stress
Examines what stress is, what causes it, how it affects our lives, and how to cope with it effectively.

#103 - Psychological Health
What it means to be psychologically healthy; the impact of self-esteem on psychological health; the process of being centered, happy, and in control of your own emotional well-being; and the importance of connecting with others.

#104 - Mental Disorders
Examines the anatomy and functioning of the brain, mental disorders and their treatments, the causes of suicide, and measures aimed at preventing it.

#105 - Fitness for Every Lifestyle
The components of fitness, how much exercise and what kind of exercise is necessary, how to get started and keep involved in a fitness program, and how to exercise safely.

#106 - Nutrition: Eating for Your Health
Defines sound nutrition; describes the essential nutrients and the Food Guide Pyramid; and covers the basics of dietary supplements, food labeling, and food safety.

#107 - Weight Management: Finding a Healthy Middle
Examines body image, optimum weight, unhealthy eating, eating disorders, obesity, and weight management.

#108 - Building Relationships
Personal communication, developing and maintaining intimate long-term relationships, and problems in relationships.

#109 - Sexual Health
Describes sexually healthy individuals and relationships and the sexual response and addresses sexual diversity, the physiology of the reproductive organs, men's and women's sexual concerns, and sexual violence.

#110 - Reproduction and Contraception
Conception, pregnancy, infertility, contraception, abortion, and the choice to be child-free.

#111 - A Family Affair
Discussions of childbirth, adoption, family responsibilities, parenting skills, roles in child rearing, the challenges facing working parents and single parents, and domestic violence.

#112 - Managing Your Health
Advice on choosing a physician, patients' rights, the various health care delivery systems, and methods of paying for health care.

#113 - Other Paths: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Examines the rapidly growing practices of CAM, under what circumstances it is used, and how it interacts with Western medical practices.

#114 - Infectious Disease
Agents of infection and how infectious diseases spread, the agent/host/environment model, major infectious diseases, the body's defenses, and vaccines.

#115 - Fighting a Global Epidemic
Explains how sexually transmitted diseases are spread, the characteristics of the various STDs, how to prevent them, and the global scope of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

#116 - A Healthy Heart
How the heart functions; risk factors for heart disease; preventing heart problems; the role of cholesterol; diet recommendations; causes, treatments, and prevention of the major cardiovascular diseases; and how to develop a heart-healthy lifestyle.

#117 - Coping with Cancer
Types of cancers, risk factors, lifestyle choices that can help reduce the risk, and treatment methods.

#118 - Living with a Chronic Disease
Differentiates between infectious and non-infectious disease and explains the risk factors for such non-infectious diseases as diabetes, asthma, epilepsy, and various digestive disorders.

#119 - Drugs
The effects of different types of drugs and methods of administering them; what individuals need to know about medications, drug dependence, and addiction; drug use in society; and treatment and prevention of drug abuse.

#120 - Alcohol
Examines the effects of alcohol on the body, why people drink, patterns of alcohol abuse, alcohol problems, treatment of alcoholism, and the impact of alcohol abuse on the family and relationships.

#121 - Tobacco
Describes the effects of cigarettes and other forms of tobacco on the body, reasons why people smoke, the impact of smoking on health in the U.S., the politics of tobacco, environmental smoke, and smoking cessation.

#122 - Staying Safe
How injuries happen; safety on the road, in the home, on the job, and at recreation; and ways to prevent injuries, both accidental and intentional.

#123 - Aging/Health Across the Lifespan
How lifestyle in the earlier years affects health in the later years, middle-age parenting of growing children, coping with the needs of an aging parent, the aging process, and how to maintain health and maximize the senior years.

#124 - When Life Ends
Discusses how death occurs, the various definitions of death, emotional and ethical aspects of death, preparation for death, hospice care, funerals, and the grief process.

#125 - Our Planet, Our Health
The present state of the planet; how past and present pollution, chemicals, invisible dangers, and politics affect its future; and what the individual can do to protect the environment.

#126 - World Health: The Journey Continues
An overview of global health issues, including the HIV/AIDS crisis, the potential for other such epidemics, and the emergence of new diseases.

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