Course Description

Students receiving credit for PED 200 will not receive credit for HED 200 This comprehensive survey course explores healthy behaviors, emphasizing wellness and stress management. Taking into consideration one's entire life style through the "whole person approach," connections among the mind, body and spirit are examined using information culled from advanced research in the interdisciplinary sciences. Topics include: psychosocial stressors and their relationship to acute/chronic diseases, stress management, coping strategies, death and dying, violence and victimization, and mental health; nutrition, fitness and weight management, sexual relationships, sexually transmitted infections, contraception, pregnancy and childbirth; use/misuse of alcohol, drugs and tobacco and other compulsivities. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-n/a Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

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