MEDIA
REVIEW
Health and Wellness for Life is a 16-chapter textbook
about basic health skills, nutrition, weight management, mental
health, stress management, reproduction, infectious diseases,
chronic diseases, environmental health, dependency, aging,
and wellness throughout life. The goal of the book, focused
toward college students, is to teach readers how to live healthy
lives. The book helps students to understand the choices they
make and how these choices can affect their lives today and
when they get older.
Chapters 1 and 2 introduce the concept of health and wellness.
This concept is based on the six dimensions of health and
wellness. Those dimensions are physical wellness, intellectual
wellness, emotional wellness, social wellness, spiritual wellness,
and occupational wellness. Each dimension is discussed and
explained. The authors then continue to explain how physical
fitness can benefit one's health and wellness. Body composition,
muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, and cardiorespiratory
fitness are also discussed. These chapters help students to
understand the difference between being healthy and having
positive wellness.
The next section of the book is about nutrition and weight
management. Nutrition is broken down into the macronutrients.
The macronutrients are explained in an understandable way
for students with a limited knowledge of nutrition. Preventing
against foodborne illness and addressing special dietary needs
are also described. The weight management chapter describes
how to maintain a healthy weight and how to get to a healthy
weight.
The next couple of chapters focus on stress management and
mental health. Stress management and mental health go hand
in hand and is represented in that way in this book. A large
portion of the mental health chapter is focused on the stigma
of mental illness. This portion of the book is very informative
and I believe especially important for college students to
understand. The stress management chapter has some excellent
ideas for college students to safely relieve stress.
Reproduction is explained in chapters 7 through 9. The chapters
go into depth about intimacy, sexuality, reproduction, protection,
pregnancy, and childbirth. The chapters are educational in
detailing how to protect yourself, what to do if you or someone
you know gets pregnant, as well as how to deal with tough
sexual issues. Chapters 7, 8, and 9 are important for college
students and it gives them plenty of information to make smart
decisions.
Chapters 10 and 11 target infectious disease and chronic
disease. The chapter on infectious disease explains how they
are contracted and how readers can protect themselves from
getting them. The chapter about chronic disease covers heart
disease, cancer, lung disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease,
and diabetes. Both of these chapters relate these topics back
to how the choices college students make at this point in
their life will affect them later.
The last two section of the textbook go over environmental
health, substance abuse, aging, and wellness throughout life.
The textbook explains how to protect yourself from environmental
dangers, how to prevent substance abuse, how to deal with
substance abuse, how to live longer, how to manage the changes
that come with age, and lastly a recap of the main points
of the textbook. The substance abuse chapter is perhaps especially
important for college students to understand and clearly covers
different kinds of abuse.
The textbook Health and Wellness for Life is a good textbook for college freshman and/or sophomore students. The textbook does not go in depth into one specific topic but hits the important points of many topics. This is a textbook that could be used in Health 101 or a similar class. The textbook is broken down into chapters that line up with each other and is nicely structured for class instruction.
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