Archive for category Healthy Care
Becoming A Health Coach
Posted by adoex in Health Coach, Healthy Care, Healthy Courses, Healthy Education on January 1, 2012
In today’s society, people are becoming more health conscious and wanting to eat more natural and organic foods. Along with this trend in society comes an opportunity for individuals to expand their knowledge and expertise in the area of health coaches and health counselors.
One unique school has opened many exciting doors for its students in the field of health coaches and counselors, and that school is the Institute for Integrative Nutrition located in New York City. The IIN first opened in 1992, and since then has been known as the leader of cutting edge holistic health education. It is the also the largest school of its type in the world.
The Institute of Integrative Nutrition is home to world-renowned experts in nutrition and wellness. In addition to having experts at hand, IIN utilizes a curriculum that combines teaching students about health coaching, nutrition education, business management, and how to make healthy lifestyle choices. The IIN teaches a wide variety of dietary theories and blends traditional nutrition ideologies with the most current health based concepts to keep their students abreast of what is happening in the moment of holistic nutrition.
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Physical Education in Schools
Posted by adoex in Healthy Care, Healthy Education on January 1, 2012
Physical education in schools is becoming a popular discussion topic. Are children getting enough gym class time? Is the amount of physical activity directly correlated with their test scores? More and more studies are indicating that a good physical education is vital in growing healthier, smarter and more creative young people.
For years, gym class has been seen as a necessity in schools. Children have a need to be active and they thrive when instructors let them play organized sports and games. Scientists are beginning to understand why exactly this physical activity makes them thrive.
Aside from the obvious need to let children have a physical outlet for energy, some scientists see a correlation between physical education and mental health. Children that are more active are showing signs of higher amounts of serotonin. This compound acts as a neurotransmitter and has shown connections to an increased sense of health, happiness and well-being. Greater amounts of serotonin in the bloodstream can quite simply mean happier children.
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Benefits of Public Health Education
Posted by adoex in Healthy Care, Healthy Education on January 1, 2012
Public health education can be considered an ambiguous term. It teaches the proper way to improve one’s health, and can involve only one or two people, or the population of several countries. Anything that can seriously threaten the physical, mental, or spiritual health of a wide range of people, notably due to their interactions with one another, can be classified as a threat to the community’s public health. This is why public health education becomes a necessary tool to aid people against the spread of potential diseases and illnesses. Five of the most important reasons of how public health education can prove beneficial are as follows:
1. People are able to learn how to prevent the spread of communicable diseases through the training and methods being taught in education. People are able to have better access to information regarding general prevention of diseases, including the knowledge of what to do and how to act during epidemics in their area. Certain diseases have their own individual prevention methods that people should be well aware of, and employing these techniques lessens the risk of being infected by possible diseases. Through public health education, even simple things such as wearing a flu mask in particularly affected areas, or knowing when to take vaccines for a particular illness that is prominent at that time of the year, always proves very effective in limiting the number of people affected annually.
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