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59 Cards in this Set
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What is health?
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The combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well being.
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What is health literacy?
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A person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health info. and services and use these resources to promote his or her health and wellness
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What is heredity?
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All the traits that are biologically passed from parents to children
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What is wellness?
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AN overall state of well-being, or total health
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What is culture?
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The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group
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What are risk behaviors?
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Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others
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What is prevention?
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Practicing health and safety habits to reamin free of disease and injury
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What is media?
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The various methods of communicating info.
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What is abstinence?
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A deliberate decision to avoid harmful behaviors including sexual activity before marriage, and the use of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol
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What is the wellness wheel?
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The wellness whell represents the result of ultimate wellness when physical, mental, and social health are in balance
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What is the health continuum?
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A way of measuring health on skill by certain behaviors
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How do physical, mental, and social health relate to wellness?
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When in balance, they lead to wellness
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What factors influence your health?
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Sleep, Nutrition, Excersize, Toabcco, Drugs, Alcohol, Stress, and Safety
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What is stress manegement?
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Ways to deal with or overcome the negative effects of stress
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What are soem refusal skills?
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Decide ahead of time, be friendly yet firm, be honest, speak only for yourself, suggst an alternative, affirm the person, appeal to possible consequences, accept the possibility of rejection
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What are the steps of the decision making process?
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1. State the situation 2. List the options 3. Weigh possible outcomes (H.E.L.P Healthful.Ethical.Legal.Parent Approval) 4.Consider values 5. Make decisiona nd act on it 6. Evaluate outcome
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What does H.E.L.P stand for in decision making process?
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H-Healthful
E-Ethical L-Legal P-Parent Approval |
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What is advertising?
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A written or spoken media message designed to interest consumers in purchasing a product or service
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What is a Health Consumer?
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Anyone who purchases or uses health products or services.
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What is physical activity?
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Any form of movement that causes the body to use energy
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What is physical fitness?
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The ability to carry out daily tasks easily and have enough reserve energy to respond to unexpected tasks
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What is a sedentary lifestyle?
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A way of life the involves little physical activity
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What is osteoporosis?
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A condition in which there is a progressive loss of bone tissue
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What is metabolism?
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The process by which the body breaks down substances and gets energy from food
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What is cardiorespiratory fitness?
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The ability of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels to use and send fuel and oxygen to the body's tissues during long periods of excersize
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What is muscular strength?
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The amount of force a muscle can exert
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What is muscular endurance?
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The ability of the muscles to perform physical tasks over a period of time without becoming fatigued
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What is flexibility?
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The ability to move the body through the full range of motion
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What is body composition?
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The ratio of body fat to lean body tissue
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What is aerobic excersize?
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An activity that uses large muscle groups, usually rythmically, and can be maintained for 10 minutes three times a week
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What is anaerobic exercise?
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Intense short bursts of activity in which the muscle works so hard that they produce energy without oxygen
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What is overload?
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Working the body harder than it is normally wokred
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What is specificity?
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Particular exercises and activities that improve particular aras of health-related fitness
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What is progression?
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The gradual increase of overload necessary to achieve higher levels of fitness
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What is warm-up?
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An activity that prepares the muscles for work
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What is cool-down?
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An activity that prepares the muscles to return to a resting state
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What is frostbite?
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A condition that results when the body tissues become frozen
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What is hypothermia?
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Condition in which body temperature becomes dangerously low
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What is a strain?
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Condition resulting from damaging a muscle or tendon
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What is a sprain?
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An injury to to the ligament surrounding a joint
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What does F.I.T.T. stand for?
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F- Frequency
I- Intensity T- Time T- Type |
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What is R.I.C.E?
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R- Rest
I- Ice C- Compression E- Elevation |
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What is anorexia nervosa?
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A disorder in which the irrational fear of becoming obese results in sever weightloss from self-imposed starvation
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What are eating disorders?
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An extreme, harmful eating behavior that can cause serious illness or even death
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What is bulimia nervosa?
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A disorder in which some form of purging or learing of the digestive tract that follows cycles of overeating
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What is a binge eating disorder?
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A disorder characterized by compulsive overeating
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Substance Abuse
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Any unecessary or improper use of chemical substances for non-medical reasons
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phycsiological dependence
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A condition in which the used has a chemical need for a drug
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psycological dependence
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Condition in which a person believes they need a drug to function normally and happily
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psychoactive drugs
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Chemicals that affect the central nervous system and alter brain activity
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narcotics
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Drugs derived from opium plant that are obtainable only by prescription to relieve pain
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addiction
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A physiological or psycological dependence on a drug
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stimulants
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A drug that increases the action of the central nervous system, the heart, and other organs
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hallucinogens
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drugs that alter moods, thoughts, and preceptions inclusing vision, sounds, smell, and touch
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depressants
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drugs that slow the central nervous system
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carcinogen
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a cancer-causing substance
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assault
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an unlawful attack on a person with the intent to harm or kill
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stalking
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the repeated following, harassing, or threatening of an individual to frighten or cause him or her harm
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risk behavior
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behaviors that can potentially your health or health or others
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