physiological aspects

Describes nutritiion as it relates to being physically fit.

Explains how the body changes during exercise and what athletes and regular exercisers should eat and drink, discussing energy, electrolyte balance, ergogenic aids, and common nutrition problems among athletes.

Examines sleep disorders, their symptoms and manifestations, how they can be controlled and treated, and what it is like to live with a sleep disorder.

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey and her personal trainer Bob Greene, present their plan for eating, exercising, and living in a way that promotes and maintains fitness, with personal stories from Oprah's struggle to control her weight.

A guide to high-level fitness and performance, offering advice on how to create a training program; reviewing methods of warming up, cooling down, and gaining flexibility; and discussing nutrition and fluid intake, stress management, motivation, and other topics.

Discusses ways that chronic abuse of both legal and illicit drugs can damage a person's health.

A study of the physiological and psychological reasons the body needs sleep, and of how this crucial function can be manipulated by certain drugs, therapies, changes in eating, or behavioral patterns.

Provides background on brain anatomy and physiology, looks at what advances in neuroscience have revealed about brain functioning, discusses the implications of discoveries about how the brain processes information for teaching and learning, and includes practical classroom applications.

Provides researched-based teaching strategies, discussing memory and test-taking success, strategies for captivating students' attention, how stress and emotion affect learning, and assessment.

Examines the history of tobacco and nicotine use, as well as the social and medical aspects of smoking, and offers suggestions on how to quit.