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Key Terms Flashcards

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Physical health and well-being

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All body systems work well,free from illness or injury, ability to carry out everyday tasks

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Benefits of maintaining physical health

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  • carry out everyday tasks
  • reduces risks of everyday illness
  • avoids obesity
  • Improves heart function
  • improves efficiency of the body systems
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Mental health and well being

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Everyone can cope with the normal stress of life , can work productively and can make a contribution to his/her community

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Mental health benefits

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  • control emotions better
  • realise of good hormones such as serotonin
  • helps reduce stress
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Social health

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Basic human needs are met, individual has friendship,support and value in society , and is socially active and little stress in social circumstances

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Benefits of social health

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  • enables you to cooperate with other people
  • opportunities to socialise and make friends
  • enables you to work collaboratively in a team
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Fitness

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Ability to meet/cope with the demands or the environment

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Benefits if maintains fitness

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  • improve levels of fitness
  • ensure you are physically able to work
  • reduces chance of injury
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Qualitative data

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Focuses on things, open questions

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Quantitive data

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Measures things, close answers, graphs

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Sedentary lifestyle

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A lifestyle with irregular or no physical activity

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Disadvantages of a sedentary lifestyle

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  • don’t sleep well
  • tired
  • increase of hypertension
  • poor self esteem
  • increased risk of heart disease,diabetes and weight gain
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BMI

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Body mass index

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Obese

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Term to describe people with a large fat content caused by an imbalance of calorie consumed to energy expenditure

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classifications of BMI

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20< = underweight
20-25 = correct weight
25-30 = overweight
30 + = obese

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Effects of obesity

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  • cause physical, social, mental health
  • limit components of fitness, like cardiovascular endurance, agility, speed, power
  • affect performance in physical activity and sport
  • affect stamina
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Mental ill health

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  • increase risk of depression

- loss of confidence

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Social ill health

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  • increased risk of being unable to socialise

- cannot leave home, less confidence

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Physical ill health

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  • increased risk of cancer
  • increased risk of heart disease and heart Attacks
  • increase risk of hypertension
  • increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes
  • High cholesterol
  • pressure on joints
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Somatotype

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A classification of body type

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Ectomorph

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A somatotype characterised by being tall and thin with narrow shoulders and narrow hips

  • High jump
  • Long jump
  • Tennis
  • endurance activities marathon
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Endomorph

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A somatotype characterised by a pear-shaped body/fatness with wide hips and narrow shoulders

  • shot put
  • sumo wrestler
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Mesomorph

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A somatotype characterised by muscular appearance with wide shoulders and narrow hips
- weight lifter , sprinter

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Energy expenditure

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Amount of energy needed to maintain a healthy weight and match physical activity

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What is energy measured it

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Calories (kcal)

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Calorie

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A unit which measures heat or energy production in the body , normally expressed as KCAL

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Factors affecting calories required

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Energy expenditure
BMR(How fast energy is used )
Gender
Age

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Balanced diet

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Carbohydrates  cakes 
Minerals  make 
Protein  people 
Vitamins  very 
Fat  fat 
Fibre and water
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Carbohydrate

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Main energy source

Simple- not long lasting energy
Complex- potatoes , stable source of energy

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Fats

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Energy source , helps carry vitamins , VITAMIN A , provides more energy than carbohydrates but can only be used at low intensity like walking

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Protein

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For growth and repair, provided little energy

Beneficial for strength and power activities , develops and repairs muscle tissue

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Vitamins and minerals

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Needed for maintain the efficient working of the body systems

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Dehydration

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Excessive loss of body water interrupting the function of the body

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Dehydration effect a

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Blood thickens , slow blood flow,
Heart rate increases, can cause irregular heart rate
Body temp in increases , overheat
Reaction time Increases , slow decisions
Muscle fatigue

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Hydration

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Having enough water to enable normal functioning if the body

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Rehydration

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Consuming water to restore hydration

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Percentages of balanced diet

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55-60% carbohydrates
25-30% fat
15-20 % protein

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Health

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A state of complete physical, me Tal and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

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Fitness

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Th ability to meet/cope with the demands of the environment

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