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Master the nurse's role in therapeutic nutrition and in teaching dietary health! Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 8th Edition describes nutritional healing and wellness from the nurse's perspective. It covers dietary guidelines with a humanistic, personal touch, using first-hand accounts to show how nutrition principles apply to patients in real-world practice. This edition is updated with the most current guidelines and the latest research on nutrition. Wri...

This powerful workbook includes a brief discussion of the current theories behind making positive lifestyle changes, along with exercises to help you make those changes in life.

Discover and achieve your personal fitness and wellness goals with Hoeger/Hoeger's PRINCIPLES AND LABS FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS, 9th Edition. Its personalized approach emphasizes behavior change and provides you with current, practical information and tips to incorporate in your daily life. PRINCIPLES AND LABS FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS, 9th Edition offers a variety of resources for you to turn active learning into active living, including new "MyProfile" boxes, "Behavior Modification Planning" boxes, exe...

Nutritional Aspects of Bone Health provides an in-depth review of the role of diet in the development and maintenance of bone health throughout the lifecycle, and prevention of osteoporosis in later life. The book is multi-authored by the world's leading researchers in this area, who have come together to formulate the first ever textbook on nutritional aspects of bone health, and includes the current and cutting edge science underpinning the prevention of bone disease. The book is structured su...

Whenever students pick up a newsletter on wellness, they read health articles in magazines, or watch current health documentaries on television, they often see the mind-body connection discussed. As we move into the 21st century there is a real trend toward healing and staying well through behaviors. Anger, hostility, stress, loneliness, and self-esteem are just a few of the things that affect health. This text is ideal for professors who discuss any of these concepts with their students. This t...

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Obesity has become a major health issue throughout the world, but many people just aren't aware of the proper nutrition needed in a diet. Smolin guides readers through the science of nutrition, providing real-world examples to show them how to apply this information to their lives. Each chapter delves into the strong science base while exploring the basis of current nutrition recommendations. This approach will help readers effectively evaluate new information that they encounter.

GAME SET MATCH is one of several activity texts in Wadsworth's Physical Education series. It covers all the basic fundamentals of tennis and is suitable for players of all levels.

Turn active learning into active living with PRINCIPLES AND LABS FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS, Sixth Edition, will guide you through the development of an attainable and enjoyable fitness program. With over 100 pieces of art that make this text truly engaging, the book gives you the motivation and techniques you need to apply what you're learning about fitness, including behavior change, nutrition, cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, and strength. Perforated laboratory worksheets found at the end...

The Nutrition Society Textbook Series Now available in a discounted bundle, buy together and save over 45%! Widely adopted in courses throughout the world, the prestigious Nutrition Society Textbook Series provides students with both specific scientific information and appropriate content. These ground-breaking titles: Provide students with the required scientific basics of nutrition in the context of a systems and health approachEnable teachers and students to explore the core principles of nu...

WALKING AND JOGGING FOR HEALTH AND FITNESS is a concise text that introduces readers to the health benefits of walking and jogging. It presents persuasive and logical reasons why exercise should be included in one's daily life, and provides guidelines for beginning and sustaining walking and jogging programs with the aim of accomplishing health and fitness objectives.

This text encourages non-nutrition majors to make reasoned judgments about personal nutrition that promote a healthy lifestyle and physical fitness throughout life. It is organized into 34 independent units that may be custom-bound. The author addresses common misconceptions, concerns, and questions giving students the information they need in order to make educated nutritional decisions.

This text explores issues emerging in today's world of organized sport and health fitness. It covers a variety of current topics, such as the current role of sport in the educational system, the growing business ethic of professional sport, and the multi-billion dollar fitness boom. This text is designed for most career aspirations and gives students a new way to look at sport and exercise.

First published in 1992: This book provides a comprehensive look at the design and production of microcapsules, microspheres, and nanoparticles. It discusses the diverse aspects and skills that must be mastered to prepare and test products that will work correctly and be clinically acceptable for human or animal use.