Healthy Lifestyles as Preventive Medicine

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Decades of research have shown that a healthy lifestyle will significantly reduce the risk of chronic disease, improve health and quality of life. Because of this research, support has emerged that healthy lifestyles are in fact the "best preventive medicine". This course will focus on learning the key components of these healthy lifestyle principles and developing the skills necessary to practice and advocate a healthy lifestyle. It is designed for any student interested in learning how to practice and promote healthy lifestyles, but it is particularly helpful for all pre-health, public health, and nutrition majors. *A unique feature of this course is the opportunity for enrolled students, (who are interested), to pair with advanced nutrition students throughout the semester for `healthy eating' guidance. Enrolled students will have healthy eating coaches! Counts as a Full-Semester Wellness/Non-movement course.