Wellness is the integration of many different components that provide us with health and well being.
Wellness reflects how one feels about life providing a "quality of life" in a pleasant and supportive community.
- Physical wellness- good physical fitness, motor skills, and nutritional status. Functioning together, nutrition and physical activity provide the foundation for physical wellness.
- Emotional wellness- ability to cope with daily circumstances and to deal with personal feelings in a positive, optimistic, and constructive manner.
- Intellectual wellness- ability to learn and use information to enhance daily living.
- Social wellness- interactions with others in our communities, having successful relationships and quality interactions with all people contribute to our social well being.
- Spiritual wellness- a person's ability to establish values system and to act on the system of beliefs and carry out meaningful lifetime goals. Based on the belief in a force greater than the individual that helps one contribute to an improved quality of life.
The Foods and Nutrition wellness program has a particular focus on the relationship of diet, across the lifespan that contributes to a healthy lifestyle.
Coursework focuses on:
- The nutrient needs of individual and how needs vary with life stage(infancy through old age).
- Diet and disease prevention.
- Exercise and the balance with nutrient and caloric intake.
- Providing services and education to communities in a variety of settings both public and private.
- Food as the source of diet and health, its composition, its relationship to nutrient intake and health.
- Family and resources to support a well life for all of its members.
Some of the students have interned at:
- Honda of Ohio
- The Whitehouse Fitness Center in Washington DC
- The Ford Motor Company
- Bluffton Family Recreation Center
Program requirements course catelog
