Soc 22: Physical, Emotional And Socialh Health Flashcards
What are the impacts of physical activity on your physical health?
- Better body composition
- Cardiovascular fitness
- Muscular strength and endurance
What are the impacts of physical actvity on your emotional health?
- Makes you feel good (serotonin)
- Relieves stress (endorphins)
- Increases confidence
- Enjoyment and challenge
- For aesthetic appreciation
What are the impacts of physical activity on your social health?
- Increase cooperation skills
- Develop friendships
- Good attitude to competition
What are the positive effects of the impact of fitness on well-being?
- Helps you cope with the physical side of life
- Even moderate exercise improves longevity - how long you will live
- Lowers risk of psychological illness
- Lowers risk of eating problems
- Makes you less likely to use drugs or smoje
- Means you are less likely to be off work with sickness
- Gives you a lower resting heart rate and lower blood pressure
- Can help weight control
- Gives you stronger bones
- Inproves your body composition
What are the negative effects of the impact of fitness on well-being?
- Puts you at risk of sport-related injury
- Time off to recover from injury can lead to psychological problems
- Competition pressure can lead to psychological problems
- Early specialisation of a particular sport can lead to long-term health problems
- Can lead to obsessive interest in body shape or composition
What is the definition of Health?
A state of complete emotional, physical and social well-being
What is the definition of wellbeing?
The state of being comfortable, health or happy
What is the defintion of fitness?
The ability to meet the demands of the envirionment
What is the definition of serotonin?
A natural chemical messenger believed to regulate your mood
What is the defintion of endorphins?
Chemicals in the brain that, like serotonin, are another of your body’s ‘feel-good’ chemicals
