Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- UNIT 1. Promoting Healthy Behavior Change. Crimes of the heart / Walter C. Willett and Anne Underwood -- American plague / Michael Hobbes -- Solve your energy crisis : a guide to finding, and fixing, the cause of your fatigue / Consumer Reports on Health -- UNIT 2. Sound mind, sound student body / Kristen Domonell -- Anxiety Nation / Sophie McBain -- Go Forth in Anger / Joann Ellison Rodgers -- Stress : Its Surprising Implications for Health / Honor Whiteman -- UNIT 3. Nutritional Health. The Truth about Gluten / Consumer Reports -- Food Myths / Harriet Hall -- Fat Facts and Fat Fiction / Consumer Reports on Health -- Yes, Healthful Fast Food Is Possible, But Edible? / Mark Bittman -- UNIT 4. Exercise and Weight Management. The Trouble with Diet Pills / Consumer Reports on Health -- Dieting on a Budget / Consumer Reports -- Can Government Regulate Portion Sizes? / Jennifer L. Pomeranz and Kelly D. Brownwell -- UNIT 5. Drugs and Health. Pot Goes Legit : What the End of Prohibition Looks Like in Colorado / Jacob Sullum -- Rethinking Drug Policy Assumptions / Jefferson M. Fish -- When It Comes to E-Cigs, Big Tobacco Is Concerned for Your Health / Martinne Geller -- Drowned in a Stream of Prescriptions / Alan Schwarz -- Smoking with Mom / Ralph Keyes -- UNIT 6. Sexuality and Relationships. My Brother's Secret / W.K. Stratton -- The Marriage Paradox : Loves, Lies, and the Power of Self Deception / Clancy Martin -- Sexual Paranoia / Laura Kipnis -- Swipe and Burn / Shaoni Bhattacharya -- UNIT 7. Preventing and Fighting Disease. Refusing Vaccination Puts Others at Risk / Ronald Baily -- The High Cost of "Hooking Up" / Kurt Williamsen -- The Secret Life of Dirt: At the Finnish-Russian Border, Scientists Investigate a Medical Mystery / Andrew Curry -- The Broken Vaccine / Melinda Wenner Moyer -- No Exit / Kent Russell -- UNIT 8. Health Care and the Health Care System. Deviated : A Memoir / Jesse Kellerman -- How Government Killed the Medical Profession / Jeffrey A. Singer -- Problems with Modern Medicine : Too Much Emphasis on Disease, Not Enough on Managing Risk / Maciej Zatonski -- Still Unsafe : Why the American Medical Establishment Cannot Reduce Medical Errors / Philip Levitt -- UNIT 9. Consumer Health. Consumers Should Drive Medicine / Kmele Foster -- Bed Bugs : The Pesticide Dilemma / Rebecca Berg -- How Not to Die / Jonathan Rauch -- Antibiotics and the Meat We Eat / David A. Kessler -- Overexposed / Consumer Reports -- UNIT 10. Contemporary Health Hazards. The Great Ebola Scare / Michael Brooks -- The Fever / David Ferry -- Brain Cancer Cases Shot Up in This Florida Town : Is a Defense Contractor to Blame? / Sharon Lerner -- Public Health Issues to Watch in 2015 / Jane Esworthy -- Giving ADHD a Rest : with Diagnosis Rates Exploding Wildly, Is the Disorder a Mental Health Crisis -- or a Cultural One? / Kate Lunaue.