Health and Wellness (Value Added Course)

HEALTH AND WELLNESS COURSE OUTLINE

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1. To help understand the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
2. To familiarize students about physical and mental health.
3. To create awareness of various life style related disease.
4. To provide understanding of stress management.

UNIT I - INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH & WELLNESS 

• Definition and significance of health and wellness, factors affecting health and wellness (Local, Demographic, Societal).
• The Architecture of Flourishing: A Comprehensive Analysis of Health and Wellness
• Balanced diet and essential component of balanced diet (Carbohydrates, Proteins, Fats, and Vitamins & Minerals).
• Malnutrition, Under-Nutrition and Over-Nutrition.
• Substance abuse and factor affecting substance abuse: Drugs, Cigarette, Alcohol.
• Mental health and factors affecting it: Stress, Anxiety, and Depression.

UNIT II - MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS 

• Physical Fitness, components and its health benefits.
• Modern lifestyle and Hypo-kinetic diseases: Hypertension, Obesity, Diabetes- II), Prevention and management through exercise.
• Postural deformities and corrective measures: Kyphosis, Lordosis, Sclerosis, Knock Knee, and Bowleg.
• Role of Yoga in health and wellness.
• Significance of sleep in health and wellness.

SUGGESTED BOOKS

1. Fitness & Wellness, Werner W. K. Hoeger, Sharon A. Hoeger, Amber L. Fawson, Cherie I. Hoeger, 2019
2. Complete Guide to Fitness & Health Second Edition, Barbara A. Bushman, Human Kinetics, 2017
3. Physical effects, and maintaining, mark a. Powell, 2011
4. Mental Health Workbook by Emily Attached & Marzia Fernandez, 2021.
5. Lifestyle Diseases: Lifestyle Disease Management, by C. Nyambichu & Jeff Lumiri, 2018.