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Explore the realms of Lifetime Fitness & Wellness, CAM practices, and Consumer Health to make informed choices for your wellbeing. Evaluate physiological age, alternative therapies, and fitness future goals. Navigate through quackery, fraud, and self-improvement strategies.
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Lifetime Fitness & Wellness Chapter 15 2010 Cengage-Wadsworth
Life Expectancy & Physiological Age • Chronological vs. physiological age • Life Expectancy & Physiologic Age Prediction questionnaire - Lab 15A 2010 Cengage-Wadsworth
Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) • Conventional medicine vs. CAM • CAM domains • Alternative medical systems • Mind/body interventions • Biologically based therapies • Manipulative & body-based methods • Energy therapies 2010 Cengage-Wadsworth
Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) • CAM practices • Shortcomings • Herbal medicines • Being an informed health care consumer 2010 Cengage-Wadsworth
Quackery & Fraud • Prevalence in the environment • Precautions • Sources of reliable information 2010 Cengage-Wadsworth
Deciding Your Fitness Future • Health/fitness club memberships • Personal trainers • Purchasing exercise equipment 2010 Cengage-Wadsworth
Self-Evaluation & Behavioral Goals for the Future • Self-evaluation • Behavioral goals for the future • Wellness Compass - Lab 15C • The fitness/wellness experience & a challenge for the future 2010 Cengage-Wadsworth