Personal Health and Fitness, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson Canada (March 6, 2024) © 2025

  • Angela M. Kolen St.Francis Xavier University
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Title overview

Apply health and fitness concepts to real life

Designed to be immediately applicable to students’ own lives, Personal Health and Fitness approaches personal health with an emphasis on decision making and accountability. Each page of the book encourages students to reflect on their experiences and those of others by illuminating core concepts and challenging assumptions about health-related topics. This approach is strengthened by an underlying framework that sees health as complex and multi-faceted, and something that looks different for each person.

This new edition of Personal Health and Fitness uses an engaging, active-learning approach through an array of activities, quizzes, and assignments. Carefully updated with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, the new edition features timely new content on sexual health, Black and Indigenous perspectives, and the social determinants of health. By learning to recognize the ebbs and flows to health and wellness, along with the various internal and external challenges that affect it, students will gain the skills they need to make proactive decisions for lifelong health and fitness.

Table of contents

  1. Embracing Health and Wellness
  2. Discovering Personal Approaches for Healthier Living
  3. Promoting Mental Health
  4. Creating a Physically Active Lifestyle
  5. Learning About Physical Fitness
  6. Nutrition for Health and Wellness
  7. Understanding Body Image, Dieting, and Eating Disorders
  8. Recognizing Overweight and Obesity
  9. Appreciating Relationships
  10. Comprehending Sexuality
  11. Evaluating Use of Alcohol, Caffeine, Over-the-Counter Drugs, and Cannabis
  12. End of Life

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