Williams, H. Melvin. Lifetime Fitness and Wellness,4th edition
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 1996.
In this paper we will be discussing wellness, and the information relative to this subject. Wellness is defined as the overall health of an individual. There are many points of wellness to discuss, such as the Wellness/Illness Continuum, 5 Domains of Wellness, Chronological Age vs. Fundamental Age, risk factors, statistics, and other such information.
The Wellness/Illness Contimuum explains, with a diagram, the health of society as a whole. In between Optimal Health and Pre-mature Death (bad health), is the inferior point. At 50% of the population, this is the average health of society. This is considered normal but borderline hea
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