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Health And Wellbeing

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100 Hours


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This comprehensive introductory course develops an understanding of the nature and scope of human health and wellbeing, and of the health and fitness industry looking at subjects such as nutrition, lifestyle, preventative health, and alternative medicine.

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Type Course Duration 100 Hours
Method / place Contact course provider Distance
Course objectives This comprehensive introductory course develops an understanding of the nature and scope of human health and wellbeing, and of the health and fitness industry looking at subjects such as nutrition, lifestyle, preventative health, and alternative medicine.
Price £225 + VAT
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Course programme

Health And Wellbeing
HEALTH & WELLBEING VRE102 COURSE STRUCTURE
  1. Introduction: Resources & services
  2. Modern Lifestyle Problems: Motivation and maintaining interest in exercise; Food, drugs,alcohol, etc.
  3. Human Nutrition: Food groups, fibre, vitamins & minerals, what to eat.
  4. Healthy Eating: Nutrition for healthy people, nutrition for special groups (eg. adolescents, age groups, pregnant women etc), obesity, anorexia.
  5. Stress Management: Relaxation, lifestyle, effect of body changes, drugs, & alcohol.
  6. Preventative Health: Self esteem, living a balanced life, decision-making.
  7. Alternative Medicine: Facts & fallacies, herbal medicine, acupressure & massage.
  8. Basic First Aid: Burns, wounds, resuscitation, first aid kits, first aid courses. 
COURSE AIMS
  • Describe the nature and scope of the Health and Fitness Industry
  • Discuss a range of modern lifestyle problems
  • Describe nutritional requirements for a well balanced diet
  • Determine appropriate dietary requirements for different demographic groups.
  • Describe stress management strategies for different people.
  • Outline basic preventative strategies and how they can be implemented
  • Evaluate the usefulness of alternative medical practices in treating and preventing illness.
  • Recommend first aid practices appropriate to a range of problems.
WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS COURSE
This course aims to develop an understanding of health and wellbeing that can be applied to design a personal fitness program. 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.
  • Describe the procedure for dealing with a broken bone.

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ACS Distance Education is a world-wide distance learning college offering a wide range of high quality distance learning courses in subjects such as psychology, horticulture, creative writing, journalism, agriculture, organics, hydroponics, nutrition and much more..
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ACS Distance Education is a reputable provider offering distance learning courses worldwide. *High quality courses *Continually updated and improved *Many courses available as postal, CD-Rom or online. *Tutor support via phone, email, fax or post. *Recognised qualifications *Highly experienced tutors. *Efficient administrative support *Student room *Online library *Book shop    
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