Changing Eating and Exercise: A Handbook for Professionals,Hunt

Hunt

Changing Eating and Exercise Behaviour\n\nA Handbook for Professionals\n\nPaula Hunt (Author), M. Hillsdon (Author)\n\n9780632039272, Wiley\n\nPaperback / softback, published 3 July 1996\n\n208 pages\n23.4 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm, 0.399 kg\n\nHealth and fitness professionals are frequently frustrated at their inability to help clients achieve long-standing health behaviour changes and are seeking new, scientifically sound, alternative approaches which are more effective. This handbook has been written as a guide for health and fitness professionals helping clients through the process of lifestyle change with a special emphasis on: eating a more healthy diet, achieving and maintaining a healthy weight and becoming more physically active. Providing cautionary advice hardly ever works: it must be combined with effective strategies to change clients' behaviour. Health promotion, primary care, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working are high on the political agenda. This book encompasses all ]