Your Health --The BIG Picture

by Bob O'Connor, Christine Wells

Overview

As will be explained in Chapter 1, health is a comprehensive term that includes our physical, mental and social well-being. This book is designed to help you understand the many different aspects of your health--mental, physical, social and ecological. By understanding some ideas in greater depth, you may be able to avoid the unhappiness brought on by both physical and mental stresses. But it is not enough to avoid unhappiness and disease, the truly healthy people live positively and happily – enjoying and contributing to the world around them.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013623835
Publisher:	Bob O'Connor
Publication date:	10/17/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	22 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Bob O’Connor is an Emeritus Professor from Los Angeles Pierce College. He has taught health education, personal health, and related subjects at UCLA, Cal State University Northridge, as well as at universities in Canada and Europe. Among the classes he has taught are: Personal Health, Health and Fitness, Drugs and Alcohol, Marriage and Family, History and Philosophy of Kinesiology, Curriculum and Methods for Health Education in the Elementary School, Curriculum and Methods of Health Education for Secondary schools, philosophy and English. He is also a licensed family therapist in California. He has authored more than 40 books, half are college textbooks, in health and fitness as well as in family life education.

Christine Wells Is a former college instructor who taught: Health Education, anatomy, physiology and physiology of exercise as well as strength and conditioning for women. She is now involved in patient and physician education for cancer patients. She has authored or co-authored texts in strength training, physical conditioning for women and fitness for the aging population. She has also written in the areas of nutrition and weight control.