Product Description: This essential resource addresses a range of student wellness issues confronting professionals in college and university settings. Building on Wellness Issues for Higher Education, this latest volume comprehensively covers key topics that not only contribute to students’ success in college, but also help students maintain wellness after graduation...read more

Wellness Issues for Higher Education is an essential resource that addresses a range of student wellness issues confronting professionals in college and university settings. Organized around five dimensions of Wellness―Emotional, Social, Intellectual, Physical, and Spiritual―this book comprehensively covers key topics that contribute to students’ success in college. Each topical chapter includes proactive wellness advice, and is designed to prepare the reader to better understand the facts, issues, and strategies appropriate for addressing the issue. Each Chapter Features: Background information, theory, and research Historical and emerging issues Common questions, controversies, challenging situations, and misconceptions Practical applications for the campus This practical guide prepares practitioners to understand and deal with the wellness and health promotion issues contributing to their students’ overall success and well-being. Armed with this valuable resource, higher education and student affairs professionals can work to improve academic performance, retention, satisfaction, and quality of life. This thorough resource will guide those working at any level in residence life, student activities, orientation, health education, student leadership, advising, instruction, and other areas of student development.

Introduces an innovative new approach for developing healthy eating habits at college, using an eight-step program for looking good, feeling great, and keeping fit and offering helpful advice on storing food, managing time, exercise, vitamins and supplements, relaxation, and more. Original.

Product Description: This text offers an exciting and practical approach to the teaching of the traditional content areas of personal health. Its two key themes--the six dimensions of health and the five developmental tasks--help students apply the text's content to their own lives by improving their decision-making skills...read more

A companion to The Dorm Room Diet provides organizational space designed to help college students plan and follow a fitness-based lifestyle while in school and beyond, in an organized planner that is based on the original work's eight-step program. Original.

Product Description: PERSONAL HEALTH: PERSPECTIVES AND LIFESTYLES, Fourth Edition emphasizes the individual's personal responsibility for wellness by presenting general (core) and current health information to guide decision making. The focus of the text is to present health topics, including cultural, racial, ethnic, and gender diversity issues, identify risk factors, and give you useful and sensible suggestions to reduce the risk for preventable diseases and conditions in order to achieve optimal levels of wellness for yourself, your friends, and your family...read more

Product Description: Fight the Freshman Fifteen, Sleepless Nights, and Other Pitfalls of College LifeWelcome to college life. It's full of possibilities — and pitfalls. Cafeteria food is awful, but there sure is a lot of it. And you can eat as much (or more) of anything — and everything — as you want...read more

This text takes a practical approach to the teaching of personal health and its traditional content areas. Its two themes, the seven dimensions of health and the five developmental tasks, help students apply the text's content to their own lives by improving their decision-making skills.

Revised and expanded from the orginal information packed no-nonsense guide for college students. Learn how to beat the Freshman 15, what's in the food you eat and how to manage your special food situation on campus. Summaries of popular weight loss diets are reviewed.

This text takes a practical approach to the teaching of personal health and its traditional content areas. Its two themes, the seven dimensions of health and the five developmental tasks, help students apply the text's content to their own lives by improving their decision-making skills.

Argues that Jesse Jackson is a calculating thief with close ties to enemies of the United States in this no-holds-barred account of the civil rights leader's life.

Product Description: Stress can affect anyone regardless of age, sex, creed, or race. It can rear its head anywhere and anytime, and it has likely been a fact of life since prehistoric days. While stress is obviously a concern of all, it has particular resonance among college students, from freshmen experiencing their first separation from home to seniors having to find that first job...read more

Product Description: Decisions for Healthy Living is a brief book that focuses on the Rnuts and boltsS of personal health, giving readers all the basic tools they need for healthy living. The clear and friendly writing style keeps readers engaged and interested in the material, without bogging them down in technical details or making judgments about their personal health choices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents more than eighty craft projects with Christmas themes that can be used as decorations or gifts.