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Dec 26, 2024
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HLTH 1002 - Sleep, Eat, Exercise Credits: 1 Hours/Week: Lecture 1Lab None Course Description: Looking for more energy and healthier habits? Discover how to create a healthy lifestyle balance in this course designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to live a balanced life in college. This lecture course covers basic concepts in nutrition, sleep, and physical activity incorporating a variety of techniques to promote self-awareness and reflection, goal-setting, and action towards wellness. MnTC Goals None
Prerequisite(s): None Corequisite(s): None Recommendation: None
Major Content
- Characteristics of credible and reliable health information
- Barriers to health and wellness
- Definition of stress
- Stress management
- Time management
- Components of fitness
- Physical activity guidelines
- Safe and effective exercise
- Goal setting
- Health and wellness
- Risk factors for disease
- Achieving good sleep
- Food Skills
- Importance of sleep
- Nutrition fundamentals
- Personal action plan
- Sleep disorders
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- assess current time management, eating, sleeping and exercising patterns.
- describe healthy ways to manage stress.
- identify the recommendations for sleep, physical activity and nutrition.
- outline practical strategies for achieving healthy sleep, activity, and nutrition habits and managing stress within the life of a college student.
- recognize the short and long term benefits and consequences related to sleep, nutrition, and activity.
- assess how they spend their time as well as their current eating, sleeping, and exercising patterns.
- assess their own readiness to change physical activity, nutrition, and sleep patterns.
- develop a personal action plan for working toward improved physical activity, nutrition, and sleep.
- evaluate their perceptions of what is healthy and the factors that influence their ability to be healthy.
- identify key barriers that prevent them from meeting physical activity, nutrition, and sleep recommendations and managing stress in healthy ways.
- outline realistic personal health goals.
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