TOTAL HEALTH

To motivate and enable students to adopt healthy lifestyles, these energetic videos provide fundamental information and suggest basic first steps toward fitness. A dietician, a doctor specializing in sports medicine, and a well-toned host and hostess explain with cheerful common sense the benefits of exercise and diet, and decry the drawbacks of inactivity and junk food. They also suggest self-tests so viewers can assess their own fitness, and they lay out safe first steps toward improvement. Programs cover: 1) Body Composition and Flexibility; 2) Muscle Strength and Endurance; 3) Cardiovascular Fitness. A pdf teacher’s guide on the DVD provides lesson objectives, activity ideas, and 38 student handouts. Grades 8–12. Color. Total time: 84 minutes. Human Relations Media. ©1999.

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