Health, Fitness & Dieting

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In Matters of Life and Death, Dr. Elliot Dorff addresses this unavoidable confluence of medical technology and Jewish law and ethics. Dr. Dorff, who has been studying and consulting on biomedical ethics for more than thirty years, discusses modern medical ethical dilemmas from a specifically Conservative Jewish point of view. He includes issues such as artificial insemination, genetic engineering, cloning, surrogate motherhood, and birth control, as well as living wills, hospice care, euthanasia, organ donation, and autopsy.

These include changing modes of subsistence, shifting populations, environmental disruptions, and social inequalities.

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An eighteen-volume guide to family health which includes answers to commonly asked medical questions.

Chap. 1: Introduction to Health and Wellness. Chap. 2: Principles of Physical Fitness. Chap. 3: Nutrition Basics. Chap. 4: Weight Management. Chap. 5: Mental Health. Chap. 6: Managing Stress. Chap. 7: Intimate Relationships and Sexuality. Chap. 8: Reproductive Choices. Chap. 9: Pregnancy and Childbirth. Chap. 10: Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Chap. 11: Chronic Diseases. Chap. 12: First Aid and Injury Prevention. Chap. 13: Consumer Health and Alternative Medicine. Chap. 14: Environmental Health. Chap. 15: Substance Use and Abuse. Chap. 16: Healthy Aging. Chap. 17: Wellness Throughout Life.

This is a compact version of the personal health text Access to Health third edition. This text, while substantially shorter than the full version, continues to provide a thorough coverage of health and well-being concepts and theory.

"This handbook reviews and discusses the extensive research on the relationships between religion and a variety of mental and physical health outcomes, including depression, anxiety, heart disease, hypertension, stroke, cancer, and immune system dysfunction, along with health destructive behaviors such as smoking, substance abuse, and risky sexual activity. This research review is both critical and comprehensive, encompassing a huge corpus of published and unpublished research conducted between 1900 and 2000. Both positive and negative effects on health throughout the lifespan from childhood to old age are examined and discussed." "Offering the only comprehensive examination of the research in this burgeoning field, this groundbreaking work lays the foundation for research, clinical practice, and collaboration between religious and health professionals in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.