Discussion 3: Healthy lifestyle practices

For this discussion, make a list of healthy lifestyle practices you currently do, for example, walk 3 times a week for 30 minutes. List all of the healthy lifestyle practices such as exercise, hygiene, nutrition, emotional/spiritual health, and social health practices that you currently do. If your list is blank just state that in the discussion and explain why it’s blank.
Look at the information in your Week 1 reading folder of the course on Health Promotion by Nola Pender and see what healthy lifestyle practices you’re not doing that you should be doing to promote your health. Make a list of the top 1-3 that you feel you need to incorporate. Then, for each healthy lifestyle practice you feel you should be doing, briefly explain how you could incorporate this activity into your daily life. If you do not want to add any of them to your daily life, that’s fine, just say so… E.g. “I know I should lose 100 pounds, but I like to eat too much and I’m not interested in losing any weight at this time in my life.”

Your initial post must be posted before you can view and respond to colleagues, must contain minimum of two (2) references, in addition to examples from your personal experiences to augment the topic. The goal is to make your post interesting and engaging so others will want to read/respond to it. Synthesize and summarize from your resources in order to avoid the use of direct quotes, which can often be dry and boring. No direct quotes are allowed in the discussion board posts.

References:

Initial Post: Minimum of two (2) total references: one (1) from required course materials and one (1) from peer-reviewed references.

Words Limits

Initial Post: Minimum 200 words excluding references (approximately one (1) page)

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.