Health & Wellbeing

STUDY HEALTH AND WELL BEING ONLINE

Lesson Structure

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Industry Overview
   • Scope of the health and fitness industries
   • Defining fitness
   • Resources and networking
   • Aerobic fitness
2. Modern Lifestyle Problems
   • Health risks and physical activity
   • Hazardous substances
   • Cancer
   • Food allergies
   • Health care strategy for an aging population
   • Wellbeing of special demographic groups: pregnant women, children, obese people, people with disabilities etc
3. Human Nutrition
   • Overview
   • Nutrition basics
   • Carbohydrates, proteins, fats
   • Dietary fibre, vitamins, mineralsBalanced diet
   • The food pyramid
   • Principles of weight loss
   • Dietary protein intake and physical activity
   • Food combining
4. Healthy Eating
   • Nutrition and diet problems
   • Anorexia
   • Obesity
   • Nutritive value with cooking and processing
   • Meat
   • Fish
   • Milk
   • Plant foods
   • Processing food
   • Canning and pasteurisation
   • Freezing, drying, etc
5. Stress Management
   • Body changes caused by stress
   • Muscle response
   • Gastrointestinal response
   • Cardiovascular response
   • Stress management program
   • Easy living
   • Stress cures
   • Drugs and alcohol
   • Relaxation
6. Preventative Health
   • Responsibility for your own health
   • Self esteem
   • Managing your own career
   • Decision making
   • Emotional security
   • Problem solving
   • Personal style inventory
   • Motivations and barriers for exercise
7. Alternative Medicine
   • Overview
   • Herbal medicines
   • Aromatherapy
   • Complimentary therapies
   • Accupressure
   • Pain points; trigger points
   • Acapuncture
   • Homeopathy
   • Osteopathy
   • Chiropractic
   • Physiotherapy
   • Counselling and psychological therapies
   • Relaxation therapies
   • Other therapies
8. Basic First Aid
   • Overview
   • Soft tissue injuriesWounds
   • Shock and fainting
   • Fractures
   • Strains, sprains and dislocations
   • Heat and cold
   • Recuscitation
   • Drowning
   • Eye injuries
   • Spinal injuries
   • Health promotion at work

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Below is a list of some activities and tasks that you will complete in this course:

Create a resource file of health and fitness related businesses, contacts, services etc. 

    · Interview people to learn how they rate their health and fitness and what they do to improve/maintain them. 

    · Identify ways to overcome a health/fitness problem in your own life. 

    · Identify different food allergies and ways to deal with them. 

    · Identify eating and nutritional disorders and describe possible treatments. 

    · Explain how age, level of activity, gender and other factors affect their dietary needs. 

    · Explain the principle of food combining. 

    · List the effects of alcohol abuse. 

    · Explain how high self esteem is achieved, and consider positive and negative effects. 

    · Identify services in your area that offer natural therapies and what they entail. 

    · Find out what first aid courses are available in your region, and what is entailed. 

    · List items that should be kept in a basic first aid kit.