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Wellness
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This text uses the foundations of the wellness movementżresponsibility for oneself, behavior change and risk reduction, and health-care consumer awarenessżto introduce students to the content needed for today's wellness courses. Offering balanced coverage of fitness and wellness topics, the sixth edition is also accompanied by an Online Learning Center, a new version of the HealthQuest CD-ROM, and more!New and expanded content throughout the text, such as information on lifestyle behaviors related to premature death, low-carbohydrate diets, new guidelines for prevention and treatment of high blood pressure, violence in dating, and spirituality|Updated "Wellness for a Lifetime" boxes that highlight topics of interest at different stages in the lifespan|Updated "This Just In" boxes at the end of each chapter, providing up-to-the-minute news on key topics|Updated statistics and references throughout |Devotes separate chapters to cancer (Chapter 13) and to common conditions (Chapter 14)|Provides extensive coverage of spirituality, through "Nurturing Your Spirituality" boxes|Offers a strong focus on behavior change, with "Real-World Wellness" boxes throughout and "Goals for Behavior Change" listed at the beginning of each chapter|Retains a strong emphasis on fitness by covering each of the four components of fitness (cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition) in separate chapters early in the book|Covers occupational health and environmental health in the dimensions of wellness|Especially of interest to the non-traditional student, this coverage emphasizes what the reader can do to affect overall, long-term health.|Highlights the spiritual dimension of wellness and its effect on overall wellness.|Show students how to apply the material to their own lives.|This organizations highlights the essential role of ongoing physical activity, and accommodates the traditional teachings of the fitness instructor.|Appeals especially to nontraditional-age students who are in the workforce and are trying to juggle both work and school.