1. A Healthier YOU Congratulations! You’ve taken your first step towards becoming healthier!

2. Welcome! This course is designed to give you information and tools to help you become healthier. The elements of this class can help you in changing your health habits in order to prevent disease or to reduce the effects of disease.

3. Course Contents

4. Lessons Lesson I: Setting Goals Developing goals and action plans for changes you’d like to make. LessonII: Stress Management/Relaxation How does stress affect you physically, emotionally, and mentally with relaxation techniques to undo the negative effects of stress.

5. Lessons continued LessonIII: Metabolic Syndrome and Its Effects on Your Health Review of insulin resistance and suggestions for dietary supplements to improve health LessonIV: Addressing Barriers to Achieving Nutrition Goals Techniques for dealing with self-sabotage and lack of support from family/friends

6. Lessons continued Lesson V: Counting Carbohydrates/Meal Planning Importance of balancing carbohydrate intake and eating balanced meals Lesson VI: Body Image and Self-talk Review of body image issues and developing affirmations

7. Lesson Structure Each lesson in this course includes 4 files: Complete the contents of each file before proceeding to the next.

8. Questions? If you have questions, please contact the Course Coordinator. Information about the Course Coordinator can be found on the front page of this course.

9. Let’s Get Healthy! Click on the first lesson to get started.