Health Final Exam Review Flashcards
Four factors that determine your health
Hereditary influence
Social influences
Cultural influences
Environmental influences
Dimensions of health
Physical Emotional Social Mental Spiritual Environmental
Values
Beliefs and standards that are important to you
Risk
Degree of danger in a situation
Epidemiology
The study of factors that cause illness to determine their chances of occurring
Increased blood pressure can be caused by to much of what?
Sodium (salt)
Fat soluble vitamins
Dissolve in fat and can be stored in body
Water soluble
Dissolve in water and must be eaten more often.
Fat soluble vitamins names
Vitamins A, D, E, K
Water soluble vitamins names
Vitamins C and all of B
Defense mechanism:
Projection
Seeing your own thoughts or feelings in another person even if they don’t have them
Defense mechanism:
Denial
The refusal to recognize reality
Defense mechanism:
Rationalization
Making an excuse for a behavior
Defense mechanism:
Negativism
Always seeing the negative side of a situation
Muscular endurance
The ability of the muscle to perform the same movement time and time again
Muscular strength
The force a muscle can exert to display power
Flexibility
The range of motion allowed by ones joints
Cardio respiratory endurance
Ability of your heart, blood vessels, lungs, and to deliver oxygen and nutrients to your body’s cells while your being physically active
Percentage of daily calories that should come from fat
20-35 percent
Three regulating basic nutrients
Fats
Proteins
Carbohydrates
Emotion:
Guilt
Feeling of having done something wrong.
Emotion:
Grief
Deep sorrow over the loss of someone or something
Emotion:
Love
Strong affection or deep concern for another person
Emotion:
Anger
Strong feeling of displeasure that can range from annoyance to fury
Emotion:
Fear
Feeling you get when you believe you are in danger
LDL cholestrol
Bad cholesterol
HDL cholesterol
Good cholesterol
Things that can affect someone’s level of intoxication
How quickly you drink
How much you drink
Body weight
Tolerance
Type of drinker:
Social
Less than 1 drink a day
Type of drinker:
Moderate
Less than 2 drinks a day
Type of drinker:
Heavy
2 or more drinks a day
How long does alcohol continue to be absorbed into blood after last drink
30-90 minutes
When determining your recommend daily calories it should be based on what three things?
Age
Gender
Activity level
Benefits of physical activity
Reduces stress levels
Helps achieve and maintain a healthy weight
Average blood pressure
110/70-120/80
Best way to get vitamins and minerals
Eat them daily and take a supplement
Legal limit for BAC in Ohio
.08%
Alcohol found in alcoholic beverages
Ethanol
Liver breaks down alcohol how quickly?
1 ounce per hour
Alcohol abuse
Drinking too much alcohol to often and drinking at inappropriate times
Blackouts
Periods of time that a drinker cannot recall
Withdrawal
Group of symptoms that occur when a dependent person stops taking drugs
Tolerance
drinker needs more alcohol to get the same effect
Inhibitions
Psychological checks on emotion and actions
Recommended amount of daily water?
8 one ounce glasses
Lose water each day through these 3 things
Breathing
Perspiration
Sweat
Mineral that helps build strong bones
Calcium
Anorexia
A condition in which there is an obsession with being thin that leads to extreme weight loss
Bulimia
A disorder that involves frequent episodes of binge eating that are almost always followed by behaviors such as, vomiting, using laxatives, fasting, or over exercising.
Male reproductive organ
Penis
Female reproductive organ
Vagina
Ovulation
When the egg is released from the ovary
Menustration
If the egg is not fertilized a woman will go through this
Fertilization
Joining of the sperm and the egg
Menstruation lasts how long?
3-7 days
Ovulation occurs on what day in the cycle
Day 14
Pathway of an egg
Ovary-Fallopian tube-uterus-endometrium-cervix-Vagina
Pathway of a sperm
Testes-epididymis-vas deferns-seminal vesicles-prostrate-cowper’s- urethra
Four most commonly abused drugs are
Marijuana, inhalants, anabolic steroids, club drugs
Drugs abused
Stimulants, depressants, opiates, hallucinogens
Target heart rate zone
The heart rate range that a person should reach while exercising to gain cardio health benefits