Download PDF Questions and Answers A Guide to Fitness and Wellness 2nd Edition by Gary Liguori

Sinopsis

That would depend on your definition of healthy. For many people, health is something they think about only if there is a sudden, noticeable change for the worse—for example, an illness or injury. From this perspective, health is an either-or state: You are either healthy or unhealthy, with no middle ground. If you think about health in this way, you’ll miss important opportunities to improve your health and well-being throughout your life.

Health comes from the Old English word hoelth, meaning “a state of being sound and whole,” generally in reference to the body. The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was one of the first credited with using observation and inquiry to assess health status—rather than considering health to be a divine gift. He and other physicians of his time believed health was a condition of balance or equilibrium; therefore ill health or disease was caused by imbalance among elements in the body. Much of Hippocrates’ teachings were based on prevention. He promoted “balance” through means such as good hygiene, exercise, eating well, and moderation in all things—ideas that are still important today. Many other visions and definitions of health have surfaced over the years. A widely used modern definition comes from the constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO): “Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”1 This definition emphasizes the important idea that health is more than just the absence of disease. However, some critics point out that complete well-being is unrealistic for most people and that health is not a single state but rather a dynamic condition.

Content

1. Introduction to Health, Wellness, and Fitness
2. Positive Choices/ Positive Changes
3. Fundamentals of Physical Fitness
4. Cardiorespiratory Fitness
5. Muscle Fitness
6. Flexibility and Low-Back Fitness
7. Body Composition Basics
8. Nutrition Basics: Energy and Nutrients
9. Eating for Wellness and Weight Management
10. Stress and Its Sources
11. Chronic Diseases 
12. Infectious Diseases
13. Substance Use, Dependence, and Addiction

Click here to download