Health & Wellness

Although I had to purchase this textbook for school, I think it is a very useful book to have. It is very easy to read and the message of personal wellness is clear.

This is the best helpful resourceful school book i ever had to buy. It contains so much informative info. i would highly recommend this book to anyone.

On one hand I think this book is great because it's philosophy is based on holistic health - the total approach for health, which is fabulous. There is a subtle (and sometimes blatant) underlying theme of balancing the mind and body. Additionally there is an underlying theme of self-care, which generates interest because the Western approach to medicine usually strictly focuses on the body only and correcting health with strictly medicine. On the other hand, I found this book to be extremely dry at times. Sometimes I lost focused and had to keep re-reading certain passages. Some textbooks I can read from cover to cover and keep an interest. Sadly, this was not one of those books. Generally, I find healthcare to be a fascinating topic, but there are some dry aspects to healthcare, so I didn't want to ding the book based on that. If I could, I would give the book 3.5 stars, not quite a 3, but not quite a 4 either.

It was a good book in decent condition. However it was pretty overpriced for the current market of this book. I wished i would've shopped around a little more. It came on time and was fine.

I ordered this book as the text for a class on Wellness Principles and I had hoped that this book would be a source of useful information about healthy living in all aspects of life, but I haven't gotten past the first chapter of this book yet and already I feel like I am reading a government policy news release. If the rest of this book follows the model evident in this opening chapter I will be deeply disappointed. So far I am finding that well-researched data is secondary in importance to advocating for government policy, specifically the "Healthy People 2010" plan released by the government. Most of the first chapter is focused on this plan, missing the opportunity to discuss in any meaningful way how college students and everyone else can make healthy decisions, focusing on the less than 5% of college students not using contraceptives rather than on the ever increasing problems resulting in the binge-drinking and general alcohol abuse that is such a problem among college students that leads to unprotected sex, violence, car accidents, etc. When discussing eating healthy it avoids ideas such as learning to recognize healthy option even when one is in a hurry and has to drive-thru and goes instead with inflammatory claims that fast food vendors are purveyors of Type 2 Diabetes knowingly damaging their customers' health to make a profit. The the insistence that "fatty foods" are the cause of all of America's worst health risks not caused by tobacco, a claim that has been in doubt for more than the last 3 years, but this book sells it as incontrovertible fact, is worrisome enough, but that it also claims that Diabetes is treated with low fat diets and drugs, making no mention at all about carbohydrate intake and the use of the glycemic index is distressingly inaccurate. There is also the disturbing insinuation that it is every person's responsibility to make healthy choices for the entire community via political means. If every chapter follows this model I hold very little hope for this book. I would recommend "Essentials of Managing Stress" by Brian Seaward long before even mentioning this book. Seaward's book addresses healthy living in a well-researched way with reference to various schools of thought and a lot of information on how your body processes stresses and how healthy choices in all areas of life can be made no matter what one's circumstances may be.

This was the first time I had the opportunity to buy used books for my college classes. I read the explanations of each book, chose the one I wanted and it came within 8 days. The condition was outstanding. Just what I thought and what I was charged for. I will use this service again. Thank you.

I bought this book for my wife's college class. It was in great shape and arrived in a timely manner. We would buy from this vendor again. Saved us so much time than having to wait in the long bookstore lines on campus and dealing with overstressed clerks.

it was the exact book I needed. it came fairly quickly, it was still in the projected time frame and it was packaged good.