Health for Life is an innovative new resource that teaches high school students the fundamentals of health and wellness, how to avoid destructive habits and how to choose to live healthy lifestyles. This text covers all aspects of healthy living throughout the life span, including understanding health and wellness, preventing disease and seeking care, how to embrace the priority lifestyles of physical activity, nutrition and stress management. It also covers advice on building relationships how to create healthy and safe communities.

 

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 424 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Human Kinetics Publishers .

Corbin has authored more than 200 professional and research publications and more than 30 books, including Concepts of Physical Fitness, tenth edition (a college text that received the prestigious McGuffey Award) as well as Fitness for Life, fourth edition, which received the Text and Academic Authors Association Texty Award. Karen E. McConnell is a certified health education specialist and has taught at university level for more than 15 years in areas related to health and fitness education, curriculum and assessment, and exercise science. Dr. Charles B. Corbin is professor emeritus in the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University. He is senior author of several award-winning primary, secondary and 6th form texts. His books are the most widely adopted US school and college texts in the area of fitness, health and wellness. David E. Corbin taught health education at the high school level for many years before beginning a career in health education at university level. He is emeritus professor of health education and public health at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where

This book has the following chapters: Unit I: Understanding Health and Wellness; Unit II: Preventing Disease and Seeking Care; Unit III: Embracing Priority Lifestyles; Unit IV: Building Relationships and Lifelong Health; Unit V: Avoiding Destructive Habits; Unit VI: Creating Healthy and Safe Communities.