Health and Wellness Choices

Catalog description

This course will introduce TUN students to the concept of healthy choices and how these selections can have carryover value in their professional and personal lives and impact overall wellness. Students will study how a healthy lifestyle is affected by physical, mental, social, intellectual, and financial choices. Proper nutrition and the importance of water will be explored. How nutrition and exercise affect the brain, longevity, sleep, and stress will be reviewed. Fads, fallacies, and falsehoods of dietary and exercise programs will be examined. Stressors and their effect on healthy choices will also be studied. Students will understand the resources available to help make healthy choices and improve their quality of life.