Another source of reliable knowledge on physical health is the internet. “ Although the Internet is being widely used to deliver health behavior change interventions aimed at adolescents and young adults, generalizable effective strategies are in their infancy. Due to the increasingly complex medical therapies that are in place today a minimum level of understanding is necessary to grasp what healthcare providers are asking their patients to do.” (Lloyd) The internet is a great place to gain knowledge on anything and everything. Although the internet has almost everything needed to know about peak performance with physical health, it requires a level of understanding which most people are not capable of grasping. By saying how the generalizable effective strategies are in their infancy, the author means there are not many ways to explain effective health strategies to someone with little or no knowledge about the field of health and fitness. Therefore it would be extremely difficult to gain knowledge on health and fitness without any help outside of internet sources because of the infancy of generalizing health strategies. To put into perspective how learning about fitness without any knowledge prior to highschool, studies say “it may be useful to consider a model for their knowledge accumulation as multiple domains with overlapping intersections.”(Lloyd) This means that even learning about health with no knowledge prior will be extremely difficult because everything is related. Therefore a person would have to have a basic understanding of mostly everything that has to do with fitness to be able to start putting it into use and becoming a healthy individual. This of course would take more than just one semester to teach and would at least take a year to be able to thoroughly go over all the basic material if the teaching was focused primarily on diet and exercise.
Lloyd, Tom, et al. “Health Knowledge among the Millennial Generation.” Journal of Public Health Research, PAGEPress Publications, 22 July 2013, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4140324/
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