Our Health is in Our Hands

Contents: 1. Need for health education and role of teacher is health education. 2. First-aid and emergency care. 3. Managing your weight. 4. Nutrition (eating for optimum health). 5. Allergy and allergens. 6. Physical fitness (improving health through fitness). 7. Injuries and their treatment. 8. Drink and drugs. 9. Body and mind girls body. 10. Asthma. 11. Managing you anger. 12. Back pain and its remedy. 13. Heart diseases. 14. Diabetes. 15. Infections and infectitions diseases. 16. Health organizations.

"In today\'s health conscious individuals have choices surrounding health that their grand parents could not have imagined; health and food stores are loaded with thousands of products that claim to promote wellness and prevent illness. Newspaper, media and magazines covers the topic of health, talk show hosts offer formulas for relationship success, sexual prowess and a slew of other behaviours that promises happy and healthy living.

The main purpose of writing this book is to cover the basic aspect of health education as being taught as per the various universities syllabus. The special emphasis is given on the disease of life style, infections, nutrition, weight management and every aspect of health education including first-aid and emergency care. This book serves the purpose of general awareness as per the needs of society.

Hopefully the present book will be useful for the students and teachers of physical and health education and its related fields." (jacket)