Health & Wellness for Students: Diet and Exercise

Your college years are the ideal time in which to make positive changes to your lifestyle. Why not make them healthy changes that can be ingrained into your daily routine and remain with you for the rest of your adult years? But with all the distractions college brings, both academically and socially, an exercise routine can fall to the wayside. A Student’s Guide to Exercise for Improving Health provides practical advice and suggestions that will help students balance a healthy, active lifestyle with academic success. Students will learn the many benefits of exercise, how to design an exercise program, and how to set realistic and attainable fitness goals that will improve health, happiness, and academic success.

A recent study, published in the Nutrition Journal, found that one in four college freshmen gain at least five percent of his or her body weight, an average of about 10 pounds, during the first semester. All of this can be avoided with healthy cooking and an eye for good choices. This all-inclusive book covers everything from affordable options to reading ingredient labels. You will learn some basic healthy cooking techniques, the latest nutrition research, the low-down on all the most-talked about diets, and what kinds of foods will improve your college lifestyle. If you want to avoid the freshman 15 while also fueling your body with what it needs to be your sharpest, most energized self, then this book is for you.

Most college students know that regular exercise can improve their health and overall well-being, but with essays to write, labs to complete, and chapters to read before class, who has time to exercise? You do! A Student's Guide to Exercise for Improving Health provides you with practical advice and suggestions that will help you balance a healthy, active lifestyle with academic success. You'll learn about a myriad benefits of exercise on your mental, emotional, and physical well-being, how to design an exercise program that works with your course schedule, and how to set realistic and attainable fitness goals that will improve your health and happiness. In helping you to develop healthy habits and a regular exercise program, this guide will help you achieve goals related not only to physical fitness, but to academic success as well. A Student's Guide to Exercise for Improving Health is part of the Cognella Series on Student Success, a collection of books designed to help students develop the essential life and learning skills needed to support a happy, healthy, and productive higher education experience.