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Concepts of Fitness and Wellness, 2nd ed. (open textbook)
Developed by Georgia Highlands College instructors, revised 2019. Organized into 13 chapters. Link includes educator resources: Concepts of Fitness and Wellness
Lifetime Fitness and Wellness (open course)
Suny OER course via Lumen Learning. Organized into 4 units and 9 chapters, with assignments. Faculty resources freely available upon verified request. Supplemental tools and materials (incl. games, lessons, videos, exercises, etc.):
Exercise and Physical Fitness - MedlinePlus
Gateway site for resources relating to exercise and physical fitness, provided by the National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Several guides and booklets available in PDF downloads. Includes videos and tutorials.
Walking and Jogging for Fitness (open textbook)
Developed by Georgia Highlands College instructors, 2018. Organized into 7 chapters. Link includes educator resources: Walking and Jogging for Fitness
Foundations of Physical Education & Fitness: Beginner Yoga (open lesson)
Developed by a physical education instructor, 2018. "A step by step guide for a beginning yoga instructor. Includes basic movements and descriptions of the movements in an easy to follow progression."
Health Education (open textbook)
College of the Canyons, 2018. "Readers will learn about the nature of health, health education, health promotion and related concepts. This will help to understand the social, psychological and physical components of health."
Lifetime Fitness and Wellness (open course)
Suny OER course via Lumen Learning. Organized into 4 units and 9 chapters, with assignments. Nutrition is one module. Faculty resources freely available upon verified request.
Contemporary Health Issues (open course)
Open course hosted via Lumen Learning. Intended for a health science introduction to personal health. Organized into 10 modules.
Developed by RAND Corporation, 2014, It examines the relationship between nutritional fitness and resilience, using key constructs found in the scientific literature that address self-regulation, positive affect, perceived control, self-efficacy, self-esteem, and optimism.
Principles of Nutrition Textbook (Georgia Galileo)
Openly licensed textbook by Georgia Highlands College faculty, Summer 2018. Organized into 20 chapters, including a "Nutrition and Fitness/Athletes" chapter. Editable Word version, and PDF versions for full text and individual chapters available.
Human Nutrition (Univ. of Hawai'i)
Developed by faculty at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Food Science and Human Nutrition Program in 2018, this "book covers basic concepts in human nutrition, key information about essential nutrients, basic nutritional assessment, and nutrition across the lifespan."
Human Nutrition (University of Hawai'i/Open Textbook Library)
Introduction to Digestion and Nutrition (Stanford University)
An Introduction to Nutrition (OER Commons)
Nutrition (Sacramento City College/LibreTexts)
Nutrition by Brian Lindshield Ph.D., Nurtitional Sciences, Kansas State University
Publication Date: 2012
An Introduction to Nutrition by Maureen Zimmerman and Beth Snow
Publication Date: 2013
Publication Date: 2018
Disease Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles (Lumen Learning)
Health Now (Flat World Knowledge/Creative Commons)
Introduction to Health (Creative Commons)
Health Education (open textbook)
College of the Canyons, 2018. "Readers will learn about the nature of health, health education, health promotion and related concepts. This will help to understand the social, psychological and physical components of health."