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Making Informed Choices
For today's fitness-conscious student, the Second Canadian Edition of Fit & Well combines the best of two worlds. In the area of physical fitness, Fit & Well offers expert knowledge based on the latest findings in exercise physiology and sports medicine, along with tools for self-assessment and guidelines for becoming fit. In the area of wellness, it offers accurate, current information on today's most important health-related topics and issues, again with self-tests and guidelines for achieving wellness. The text provides comprehensive advice on wellness-related behaviour and practising a healthier way of life, as well as thorough coverage of health-related fitness and nutrition.
Fit and Well provides comprehensive advice on making informed choices about food and integrates behaviour change throughout the text. Making informed choices is the Fahey difference.
A resource that promotes self-assessment, Fahey encourages effective time-management with course material and incorporating healthy behaviour changes. By leveraging the online interactive workbooks, students have an easily accessible venue to record and track their progress. Labs at the end of each chapter help students determine their current level of wellness and create plans for making positive lifestyle changes.
New Features :
Canada's Food Guide The food guide has been included in Chapter 7, Nutrition, of this edition.
Canada's Physical Activity Guide The activity guide has been included in this edition in Chapter 2, Basic Principles of Physical Fitness.
Vital Statistics tables and figures highlight important facts in an accessible format.
Tips for Today, found at the end of each chapter, provide a brief summary of the major message of the chapter, followed by suggestions for a few easy steps students can try right away to improve wellness levels.
Critical Thinking and Reflection questions-these will help students retain what they've learned in each chapter by applying and examining the concepts.
Retained Features :
Laboratory Activities are hands-on self-assessments that help determine a student's current level of wellness and create plans for making positive lifestyle changes. The Using Your Results sections guide students in setting goals and moving forward based on the results of the assessments. Lab activities are included at the end of every chapter.
Sample Programs are illustrated to show proper technique for exercises and stretches that develop muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and low-back health. Complete sample fitness programs are built around popular endurance activities such as walking or running.
Common Questions Answered appears at the end of most chapters, providing responses to frequently asked questions in easy-to-understand terms.
Motivation for Change sections provide strategies for beginning a behaviour change program and maintaining new healthy habits over time
The Behaviour Change Workbook takes students through the process of behaviour change, helping to target specific behaviours, set goals, create a plan, and overcome common obstacles to change.
Test Your Knowledge opens each chapter with a series of multiple choice and true-false questions and accompanying answers. These self-quizzes emphasize key points, highlight common misconceptions, and spark debate.
For Further Exploration sections at the end of each chapter describe resources such as books, newsletters, organizations, and Web sites that can be accessed for additional information.
The Running Glossary appears within each chapter, providing definitions for important terms
Take Charge boxes provide practical advice applicable to everyday life. By referring to these boxes, students can easily find information about such topics as becoming more active, exercising in hot weather, adding whole-grain foods to their diet, helping a friend who has an eating disorder, dealing with an alcohol emergency, and many others.
Critical Consumer boxes are designed to help students develop and apply critical thinking skills, thereby enabling them to make sound choices related to health and well-being. These boxes provide specific guidelines for such topics as evaluating health information, diet pills and aids, supplements and smoking cessation products, and using nutrition labels and dietary supplement labels to make informed choices.
Dimensions of Diversity boxes focus on the important theme of diversity. Most wellness issues are universal; however, certain differences among people (based on gender, educational attainment, socio-economic status, ethnicity, and age) do have important implications for wellness. Dimensions of Diversity boxes give students opportunities to identify special wellness concerns that affect them.
Wellness Connection boxes highlight important links among the different dimensions of wellness - physical, emotional, social/interpersonal, intellectual, spiritual, and environmental - and emphasize that all the dimensions must be developed in order for an individual to achieve optimal health and well-being.
In Focus boxes highlight current topics and issues of particular interest to students. These boxes focus on such topics as the importance of lifestyle for young adults, exercise safety, exercise machines versus free weights, diabetes, fitness and fatness, low-fat versus low-carbohydrate diets, glycemic index, and the benefits of quitting smoking.
Quick-Reference Appendices Included at the end of the book are three appendices containing vital information in an easy-to-use format: Nutritional Content of Common Foods, Nutritional Content of Popular Items from Fast-Food Restaurants, Monitoring Your Progress and a bonus Appendix, Injury Prevention and Personal Safety, is available online.
Table of Contents :
Chapter 1: Introduction to Wellness, Fitness, and Lifestyle Management
Chapter 2: Basic Principles of Physical Fitness
Chapter 3: Cardiorespiratory Endurance
Chapter 4: Muscular Strength and Endurance
Chapter 5: Flexibility and Low-Back Health
Chapter 6: Body Composition
Chapter 7: Nutrition
Chapter 8: Weight Management
Chapter 9: Putting Together a Complete Fitness Program
Chapter 10: Stress
Chapter 11: Cardiovascular Health
Chapter 12: Cancer
Chapter 13: Wellness for Life
Appendix A: Nutritional Content of Common Foods
Appendix B: Nutritional Content of Popular Items from Fast-Food Restaurants
Appendix C: Monitoring Your Progress
*ONLINE* Chapter 14: Substance Use and Abuse
*ONLINE* Chapter 15: Sexually Transmitted Infections
About the Author:
Thomas Fahey Sorry. No Biographical Information Currently Available.
Paul Insel Sorry. No Biographical Information Currently Available. Walton (Tom) Roth Sorry. No Biographical Information Currently Available. Ilsa Wong Ilsa Wong is a Faculty member in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Lethbridge. Originally from Toronto, she completed her BSc (Co-op) Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo and her BEd. at the University of Toronto before completing her MSc. at the University of Oregon. Ilsa's interest in wellness and physical activity was piqued while a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the UO working with students in the required first-year course on that very topic. Since then, she has taught close to 3000 students about the dimensions of wellness and the ways in which we can incorporate healthy, positive lifestyle habits into our everyday lives.
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