Making Life Choices

Health Skills and Concepts

de Eleanor Noss Whitney

This book was written for you, the high school health student, to meet your needs for knowledge about health. A new day has dawned in health education, because science has revealed that personal choices exert powerful influences on health and illness, and even on life and death. You are a member of the first generation in history to face so many choices of such lasting impact on your health. You are also among the first to be privileged with access to sound health information with which to make those choices. - Introduction.