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Health and Wellness for Life

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.

Title: Health and Wellness for Life

Author: Human Kinetics

ISBN-13: 9781450405119

Description: 2010 eBook

Reviewer: Kayla Smith
Reviewed as ebook

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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