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Health & Fitness General Health Health

Improve your health - reduce risk of early death

Improve your overall health, feel more energised, productive and perform better in life with a healthy lifestyle.
Rating: 4.2 out of 54.2 (9 ratings)
279 students
Created by Colin Thomas
Last updated 6/2020
English
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Stress and depression prevention
  • How to develop good sleeping habits
  • Nutrition for health, including why fruit and veg is important and avoiding dysglycaemia
  • Exercising for health
  • Looking after your back
  • Cigarettes and Alcohol
  • Cancer prevention
  • Cancer - checking yourself for men and women
  • Diabetes prevention
  • Heart disease prevention

Requirements

  • none

Description

Learn how to flourish in life with a healthy lifestyle. Health is not merely the absence of disease. It is about feeling good. With a few simple changes to your exercise, nutrition and stress reduction, your lifestyle could be much improved, reducing the risk of heart disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes. Reduce the risk of mental health issues such as depression. Move better to avoid chronic back pain. Be more productive in work and at home. Learn how to live a healthy lifestyle. Learn how to improve the quality of your life as well as adding years to your life.

Do you know how to eat for optimal health? How much exercise you really need? Do you know what free radicals are, how they can cause cancer and how you can prevent them with the right diet? Learn techniques to help stave of anxiety, depression and mental health issues. Do you sleep well at night and wake up energised every day? If not, this course is for you. Learn how to improve your sleep and why it really matters.

Did you know that back pain is the main reason people are absent from work these days? Learn how to prevent back pain with some easy daily changes to your life. As you get older, your risk of back pain increases. Reduce this risk as early as you can.

Learn how to check yourself for lumps and bumps which could be breast or testicular cancer and what to do if you think you might have found something.

Risk of everything increases as you age. Reduce that risk now and learn how to live a long and happy life.

Who this course is for:

  • Suitable for those who want to improve their overall health and wellbeing.
  • Especially people who are keen to function better on a daily basis and be more productive.
  • Businesses looking to reduce absenteeism and boost productivity

Course content

12 sections • 80 lectures • 57m total length

  • Preview02:40
  • Preview00:40

  • Preview02:01
  • Reducing stress with self massage
    00:50
  • Stress control techniques - deep breathing
    00:40
  • Stress control techniques - Rhythmic exercises
    00:44
  • Increasing resilience to stress
    00:48
  • Depression
    00:33
  • Symptoms of depression
    00:28
  • Treating Depression
    00:32

  • Preview01:18
  • Improving your sleep
    00:33
  • Improving your sleep continued
    00:41

  • Preview00:49
  • Hydration continued
    00:48
  • Avoiding dysglycaemia (bouncing blood sugar levels)
    01:07
  • Avoiding dysglycaemia continued
    00:26
  • Glycaemic Load Table
    00:48
  • Fruit and vegetables
    00:49
  • Sources of free radicals
    00:50
  • Controlling Cholesterol
    02:04

  • Preview00:39
  • Frequency
    00:40
  • Intensity
    01:02
  • Intensity continued
    00:43
  • Time duration of exercise
    01:05
  • Type of Exercise
    00:59

  • Preview00:37
  • Lifting safely
    01:04
  • Sitting properly
    00:48

  • Preview00:51
  • It's not just death . . . . . .
    00:20
  • Help is at hand
    00:49
  • Alcohol
    00:21
  • What is safe?
    00:43
  • Help is at hand
    01:00

  • Preview00:38
  • What is cancer continued
    00:24
  • Viral causes of cancer
    00:43
  • Environment and cancer
    00:43
  • Environment and cancer continued
    00:47
  • Clinical Manifestations of Cancer
    00:53
  • Exercise and Cancer
    00:38
  • Nutrition and Cancer
    00:51

  • Preview00:28
  • The five steps of a breast exam
    00:52
  • The five steps of a breast exam . . . .
    00:51
  • The five steps of a breast exam . . . .
    01:02
  • The five steps of a breast exam in picture form
    00:11
  • Tips on breast self examination
    01:10
  • Testicular cancer
    00:26
  • Three steps of testicular examination
    00:46
  • Testicular examination in picture form
    00:11
  • Tips on checking your testes
    00:32

  • Preview00:30
  • A Growing problem
    00:25
  • Classification of Diabetes
    00:21
  • Symptoms of Diabetes
    00:16
  • Risk Factors for type 1 diabetes
    00:26
  • Type 2 diabetes
    00:38
  • Diagnosis of type 2 diabetes
    00:35
  • HbA1c: the long term marker
    00:25
  • Complications
    00:23
  • Risk factors for type 2 diabetes
    00:19
  • Modifiable risk factors
    00:26
  • Lifestyle interventions - Exercise
    00:53
  • Nutrition - Glycaemic index
    00:45
  • Glycaemic load
    00:52
  • Glycaemic Load Table revisited
    00:37
  • Oats!
    00:26
  • Cinnamon!
    00:31
  • Stimulants!
    00:27

Instructor

Colin Thomas
UK Lead Sport Scientist and Coach
Colin Thomas
  • 4.3 Instructor Rating
  • 46 Reviews
  • 785 Students
  • 3 Courses

Colin is a Lead Physiologist in the UK, a Sports Scientist, UKA Running Coach and Personal Trainer tutor/assessor who works with athletes from beginner to elite, all over the world. He is also a tutor at the Institute of Sport. He has regular visits to Kenya, with some of the world's top athletes and coaches, training at altitude in their quest to reach the top. He has also worked in hospitals, gyms, clinics and fitness centres all over the UK with the general public, amateur and professional sports people, all with the similar aim of improving performance. As a keen running enthusiast himself he is always looking to trial new ways of pushing the limits of human performance. He is a regular speaker at conferences in the UK and abroad, and his written articles are regularly published in running magazines.


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