HEALTH EDUCATION AND SPORTS NUTRITION

The roots of health education lie with the ancient Greeks. Health education is a profession of educating people about health. Main areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health,
emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health, as well as sexual and reproductive health education.
Health education can be defined as the principle by which individuals and groups of people, learn to behave in
a manner conducive to the promotion, maintenance, or restoration of health. However, as there are multiple
definitions of health, there are also multiple definitions of health education. Notably the Joint Committee on Health Education and Promotion Terminology of 2001 defined Health Education as “any combination of planned learning experiences based on sound theories that provide individuals, groups, and communities the opportunity to acquire information and the skills needed to make quality health decisions.” This book is devised as an introductory text for graduate and postgraduate courses of sports & physical education, besides health and nutrition in different Indian universities. Packed with facts and figures, the following chapters make core of the study: Introduction; Concept, Dimensions and Determinants of Health; Health Education: Meaning, Concept and Principles; Focus on Communicable Diseases; Non-Communicable Diseases; Role and Importance of
Sanitation; Understanding Human Nutrition; Balanced Diet and Dietary Plan; Obesity: Causes and Prevention;
Malnutrition and Its Impact on Health; Sports Nutrition: An Overview; and Bibliography etc. Certainly this will prove informative and useful to academics and professionals in the field. As usual such books cannot be written single-handedly.With the sole aim of furnishing authentic and correct information, we have consulted a number of standard works, e.g., books, reports, articles, individual papers etc. written by different scholars and professionals in the field. Web-based sources are also profusely consulted and used. We owe a deep sense of gratitude to all of them for subscribing views and findings of their works. At the same time, it is our bounden duty to express
our gratitude to our teachers, seniors, colleagues and friends for their valuable help, able guidance and whole-hearted cooperation at every step of life as well as academic career. As usual our kith and kin deserve all the appreciation and respect for their constant moral support, cooperation and
inspiration.Finally we express our gratitude to Shri Gautam Tiwari of Manisha Publication, Delhi who has been instrumental in bringing out this book metculously in elegant manner.