Health, Kinesiology & Nutrition

• The Fitness and Wellness Web Site offers several activities, web links, and book-specific quiz questions for further study.

• A Closer Look boxes give the reader insight into special topics such as controlling cravings for sweets, obesity and disease, and exercising in cold weather.

• Nutritional Links to Health and Fitness boxes — including “Vitamin C as a Cure for the Common Cold,” “Diet and Workout Hangover,” and “Supplementing for Joint Health” — connect nutrition to fitness.

• Lab exercises allow students to apply textual information to practical problems, encouraging the immediate development of a core fitness plan.

• Updated coverage of nutritional supplements includes new recommended daily allowances for nutrients, information about what dietary supplements are and when and how to use them, and information about the role of phytochemicals in health.

• Fitness and Wellness Consumer Issues boxes teach students to be better health consumers, guiding them to make smart fitness and wellness decisions in a market full of fads, gimmicks, and gadgets.

• Fitness and Wellness for All boxes present current health research, covering issues such as how the risk of cancer varies across the U.S. and how the incidence of drug abuse varies across populations.

• Ask an Expert boxes contain in-depth interviews with specialists in a variety of fields. Topics include adaptation of muscle to resistance training programs, exercise and nutrition, exercise and body adaptations to environmental extremes, psychological issues related to exercise adherence, and the cause and treatment of obesity.

• Behavior Change Log Book encourages behavior change by providing students with hands-on material to track daily exercise and food intake and to create personal, long-term fitness and nutrition programs.

• NutriFit nutrition and fitness management software gives students the tools they need to track and analyze their daily exercise and nutrient intake.

• StudentBody101 offers interesting, bi-weekly updated news and journal articles; personalized self-assessments and behavior-change tips; online discussions; and more.

• The Benjamin Cummings Fitness and Wellness video program is available to qualified adopters. Ask your local Benjamin Cummings sales representative for a complete list of videos.

 1. Understanding Health-Related Fitness and Wellness.


 2. Fitness Evaluation: Self-Testing.


 3. General Principles of Exercise for Health and Fitness.


 4. Exercise Prescription Guidelines: Cardiorespiratory Fitness.


 5. Improving Muscular Strength and Endurance.


 6. Improving Flexibility.


 7. Nutrition, Health, and Fitness.


 8. Exercise, Diet, and Weight Control.


 9. Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.


10. Stress Management and Modifying Unhealthy Behavior.


11. Exercise and the Environment.


12. Exercise for Special Populations.


13. Prevention and Rehabilitation of Exercise-Related Injuries.


14. Prevention of Cancer.


15. Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Drug Abuse.


16. Life Time Fitness.


Appendix A: Healthy People 2010.


Appendix B: Nutritional Content of Common Foods and Beverages.


Appendix C: Nutritional Content of Fast Foods.


Glossary.


Index.

Fitness and Wellness  (Health, Kinesiology & Nutrition)

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  Total Fitness and Wellness, 5/E
  Powers & Dodd
  ©2009 | Benjamin Cummings | Paper Package; 432 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321522877 | ISBN-13: 9780321522870
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  Thoroughly revised and updated to be relevant, approachable, and appealing, Total Fitness & Wellness gives students a solid foundation in fitness and lifetime wellness, while teaching them how to make healthy behavioral changes and lifestyle choices. The new edition combines the latest research in exercise science, expanded coverage of behavior change, and exciting new features with the most comprehensive supplements package in the market to make a book instructors and students alike will enjoy using. For a focused presentation on fitness, the Brief edition consists of Chapters 1-10 and 16 from the big book so students receive the basics on fitness, nutrition, cardiovascular disease and stress management.

   

  Scott Powers and Stephen Dodd are award-winning instructors who bring their expertise in exercise physiology to the text. In addition, new authors Erica Jackson and Marilyn Miller bring their expertise in teaching fitness and wellness to this edition of the text. The authors address important issues such as behavior change, nutrition, cardiovascular health, disease prevention, exercise-related injuries, exercise and the environment, and stress management. Updated coverage in the Fifth Edition includes a new chapter on body composition, the reorganization of content to more fully integrate behavior change, and a revised lab program reflecting current fitness trends. An expanded media package features a Teaching Tool Box that includes a Course-at-a-Glance Quick Reference Guide, and the Fitness Support Manual. ABC News Lecture Launcher videos are incorporated into the PowerPoint^® Lecture Slide presentations, and new and revised labs plus exercise videos have been added to MyHealthLab.

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Scott Powers recieved his B.S. in physical education from the University of Georgia before going on the get his Ed.D. from the University of Tennessee and his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Scott has been teaching for over 20 years, and was named Teacher of the Year at the University of Florida in 1992. Scott served as president of the Southeastern Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine in 1986. Scott's primary area of research interest is the respiratory-metabolic adaptations to exercise. In his free time, Scott enjoys water sports: SCUBA-diving, water-skiing, and swimming in the Florida Keys.

Steve Dodd earned his B.S. in economics from the University of Alabama before going to the same university for his M.S. in exercise physiology and to Louisiana State University for his Ph.D., also in exercise physiology. He has been teaching for more than 20 years, in a variety of capacities, and has won numerous awards, including the Teacher of the Year award in 1997. He has won the annual "Instructional Resources Grant" from the University of Florida every year since 1991, allowing him to make innovations in use of multimedia in his classroom. Steve has held numerous chairs in committees at the University of Florida. His lab conducts research in various areas of muscle physiology. When he's not hard at work, Steve enjoys family outings, coaching little league baseball and basketball, sailing, and racquet sports.

For Fitness and Wellness

Eat Right!
Benjamin Cummings
©2007 | Benjamin Cummings | Paper; 80 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805382887 | ISBN-13: 9780805382884
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New Lifestyles Pedometer, 7/E
Benjamin Cummings
©2007 | Benjamin Cummings | Promotional Materials | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321518039 | ISBN-13: 9780321518033
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©2006 | Benjamin Cummings | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321186079 | ISBN-13: 9780321186072
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This package contains:
•   Powers & Dodd, Behavior Change Log Book, 3/E (2003)
•   Powers & Dodd, NutriFit CD-ROM component, 3/E (2003)

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