What is wellness? Wellness is most importantly a choice to assume responsibility for one's quality of life. It is an active process that allows people to make positive choices in creating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Wellness is not simply the absence of disease, but a robust state of well-being that recognizes the existence and importance of the mind, body, and spirit connection. Today, many wellness models focus on achieving balance amongst several dimensions of one's life: intellectual, emotional, cultural, occupational, spiritual, physical, and social.
- Intellectual Wellness: have an open mind when encountering new ideas and concepts; attend an event or seminar on campus on a topic of interest.
Phone: (318)257-4730
Counseling Services Study Smart
Phone: (318)257-2488
- Emotional Wellness: work on understanding your emotions and using healthy coping skills for dealing with emotions; meet with a peer counselor through the Peer Leadership Council or visit with a counselor in Counseling Services.
Phone: (318)257-2488
Phone: (318)257-2588
- Spiritual Wellness: balance your inner needs with the demands of the outside world; consider visiting a faith group on campus or experiment with yoga at the Lambright Sports Center.
- Occupational Wellness: do some research on your chosen major or attend career counseling labs or workshops through Counseling Services; find a part-time job or internship that fits well with your career path.
- Physical Wellness: maintain healthy eating and exercise habits; visit the Lambright Sports Center, join an intramural team, or visit the Student Health Center for your health needs.
- Social Wellness: make time for social interaction with peers; find a student organization with which to get involved - there are over 150 student organizations on campus.
- Cultural Wellness: attend events hosted by the International Student Office or Multicultural Affairs; purposefully get acquainted with those who are different from you-be open to diversity.
Louisiana Tech Wellness Vitabot Online Meal Planning
Click here to visit the Vitabot Website
What is Vitabot?
It is a revolutionary breakthrough in science and nutrition which allows you to plan out your meals by combining the most up-to-date nutritional information collected from the Institute of Medicine.
Why should you use Vitabot?
The fitness industry is primarily focused on counting calories whereas the Vitabot programs main focus is to provide you with balanced nutrition. Vitabot uses advanced mathematics to actually "think" for the user, and in turn, this assists them to easily put their foods together. This not only provides a balance in calories but provides a balance of micro-nutrients as well. Vitabot performs thousands of mathematical calculations for every set of nutritional suggestions and then these mathematical equations provide nutritional advice which is created to allow the nutritional data to speak directly to the user, without personal interpretation.
This specific technique allows the user to view food at a whole new level. Allowing the data to speak for itself reveals basic truths such as, "Apples for Fiber", or "Almonds for Vitamin E and Omega 6." But by allowing the system to search the full range of nutritional data, without human experience. Vitabot takes this scientific technology, and through an extremely straightforward set of user-friendly interfaces, makes it accessible to everyone.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT VITABOT: VISIT THE LINK ABOVE, WATCH THE DEMO VIDEO, OR CALL THE LAMBRIGHT SPORTS CENTER. CHAD SPRUELL AND THE WELLNESS STAFF WILL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER AN QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
CSPRUELL@LATECH.EDU
Phone: (318)257-4634
Click here to watch the Vitabot demo video.
