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This lifestyle-based approach to wellness not only presents the latest available research on health and fitness, but integrates this information with strategies for implementing behavior change. It discusses exercise, nutrition, weight control, stress, substance abuse and other common wellness issues, and uses what is called the Stages of Change model of behavior to educate readers on how to successfully implement needed behavior changes in their lives. Intended as a textbook for classroom use, but can also be used by the individual reader. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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B> This pioneering personal wellness text combines the most current health and fitness research with the most effective model for behavior change. It uses the stages of change model developed by psychologists James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente to help readers assess their own readiness for change and develop a personalized behavior change program, with the goal of adopting and maintaining a lifestyle of wellness. The book begins by describing the components of wellness and its relationship to fitness, then provides specific information on cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, muscular strength and endurance, proper nutrition, body composition, body weight control, stress management, healthy relationships, disease prevention, and substance abuse avoidance. For anyone interested in developing a wellness lifestyle that will last a lifetime.
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