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Exercise Basics
Fitness Essentials
Warning: Being Out of Shape Is Hazardous to Your Health
Developing a Personal Fitness Plan
Setting Fitness Goals
Aerobic Metabolism: Energy With Oxygen
Anaerobic Metabolism: When You Need Instant Energy
How Energy Works: Activity, Fatigue and Recovery
Exercise and Your Heart
Exercise and Weight Control
Strength-Training Is Important, Too
Stretching for Flexibility
Fitting Fitness Into a Busy Schedule
Eating Before Exercise
Why Warm Up? Why Cool Down?
Pay Attention to Your Heart Rate
Taking Your Pulse
Choosing the Right Exercise Shoes
Fit at Any Age
Tips for Exercising Safely
Are You Overtraining?
RICEing Fitness Injuries
Replacing Fluids Lost From Exercise
Sport Drinks
Your Target Heart Range (poster)
The FIT Formula (poster)
First Aid for Sports Injuries: RICE! (poster)
The Components of Total Fitness (poster)
Exercise Shoes (poster)
Getting andamp; Keeping Fit
Test Your Endurance: The Step Test
Test Your Flexibility: Reach and Pull Tests
Test Your Strength: Resistance Tests
Choosing Exercise Equipment for Your Home
Cross Training
Cross-Country Skiing
Low-Impact Aerobic Dance
Rowing
Running and Jogging
Stair Climbing
Step Training |
Swimming
Walking
Weight Training
Preventing Fitness Injuries
Achilles' Tendinitis
Ankle Injuries
Ankle Sprains
Shoulder Injuries
Shin Splints
Low Back Injuries
Aerobic Dance Injuries
Hamstring Injuries
Groin Injuries
Foot Injuries
Knee Injuries
Charley Horses
Tendinitis
Athlete's Foot
Running Injuries
Walking Injuries
Nutrition Basics
The Basics of a Balanced Diet
Good Eating Guide
The Food Pyramid
Reading Food Labels
How Many Calories Do You Need?
How You Think Is How You Eat
Know Your Nutrients
Nutrition at the Supermarket
Nutrition Fads and Foibles
Understanding Daily Values
Changing Your Relationship to Food
Dealing With Feelings
Mealtimes
Diet and Cancer Risk
Diet for a Healthy Mouth
Facts About Fats
Fat Makes You Fat
Fiber in the Diet
Nutrition for the Later Years
Body Mass Index
What Is Obesity? |
Overweight or Overfat?
Diet, Exercise and Losing Weight
Why Diets Don't Work
Safe Weight Loss
Teaching Your Body To "Burn" More Calories
Fiber and Weight Loss
Hazardous Weight Loss
Fasting and Liquid Diets
Overcoming Backsliding
The Overweight Child
Overcoming Binge Eating
Cooking andamp; Eating Right
Eating Well for Less
Eating Triggers
Carbohydrates: How Much Is Enough?
Protein: How Much Is Enough?
Fat: How Much Is Enough?
Calcium: How Much Is Enough?
Water Is Essential
A Little Sodium Goes a Long Way
Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
Caffeine: More Than a Quick Pick-Me-Up
Fake Fats
Fat-Free Foods
Sugar Is Sweet by Any Name
Sugar Substitutes
Curbing Your Sweet Tooth
Kicking the Junk Food Habit
Cooking With Less Fat and Oil
Cooking With Less Salt
Cutting the Fat Out
Great Grains
Fruit Is Good Food
Egg-citing Eggs
When You Choose Beef
There's Something About Spuds
Beans and Legumes
Healthy Snack Foods
Should You Feed Your Kids Cartoon Foods?
Checking Out 'Health Foods'
Vegetarianism
Using a Food Diary |
