Physical Fitness and Health

Contents: 1. Maintaining wellness. 2. Physical exercise and environment. 3. Weight control and energy balance. 4. Principles of physical fitness and staying young. 5. Eating and exercising towards a healthy life-style. 6. Coping with stress. 7. Dental health, nutrition and diet. 8. Overweight and underweight. 9. Food and health. 10. Alcohol and health.

"The main purpose of the present book entitled Physical Fitness and Health is to present the basic facts in fitness, health and physical education, a comprehensive picture of how physical education and its different branches are functioning at present. The principles associated with the teaching-learning models offered apply to both viz., clinical as well as community delivery settings and their variations." (jacket)