Soc 23 Consequences Of A Sedentary Lifestyle(life Style Choices) Flashcards
What is health?
A state of complete physical, emotional and social well being
What is wellbeing?
A state of being comfotable, healthy or happy
How is physical health is linked to fitness?
Being able to perform effectively the physical tasks involved in life as well as sport
How is emotional health linked to wellbeing?
Feeling positive about yourself
How is social health linked to wellbeing?
Feeling positive about interactions with other people in the wider world
What is fitness?
The ability to meet the demands of the enviroment
What are the positive impacts of fitness on well being?
- help with he physical side of life
- low risk of psychological fitness
- helps body composition
- stronger bones
What to do for discuss questions?
Positives + negatives
What are the negative effects of fitness on well being
- risks of sport related injures
- time off to recover can lead to mental problems
- competitive pressure can lead to illness
- sport stresses can lead to long term injuries
- leads to obesssive intrest in body shape
How to promote health through a PEP?
Create a 6 week personal exercise plan
Plan, perform, monitor, and re-assess
What is a PEP
A training plan designed to improve your personal fitness
Can be for a sport and include a diet plan
(Can be linked to a component of fitness)
What are 6 lifestyle choices?
- diet
- activity level
- work/rest/sleep balance
- recreational drugs
- smoking alcahol
ALL OF THESE HELP ENSURE YOUR HEALTH
What is a depressant?
Substance that lowers the level of physiological or nervous activity on the body
What is a stimulant?
A substance that raises alertness
Sedative
A drug that has a calming or sleep-introducing effect
What is a lifestyle choice
A choice we make about how we live and behave that impact on your health
What is high-density lipoprotein?
Sometimes knows as good cholesterol,removed bad cholesterol from the body
Why is having a good diet important?
- essential part of providing the body with energy
- nutrients required to repair body tissue
- maintain body weight
Why is having a good activity level important?
- has a huge impact on your health and fitness
- needs to be planned into avaliable time(some prefer training in the morning and some prefer the evening)
Why is the work/rest/sleep balance important?
- exercise helps you to sleep better which helps your body recover. It also allows you to have a deeper, more productive nights sleep.
- try not to exercise too late as it will have the opposite effect and mean you are too energised to sleep because of the release of serotonin and endorphins
Why is recreational drugs important for lifestyle choices?
Recreational drugs are split into two categories: legal and illegal
Legal: nicotine, caffine, ethanol+have a negative effect on body but is accepted by society
Illegal: not accepted and have harmful effect, highly dangerous
Why is smoking a bad life choice?
-highly addictive and people face withdraw symptoms if they go too long without a cigarette
The addictive ingredient is nicotine. Nicotine is a stimulant that raises alerness. As nicotine is an addicitve drug the longer someone smokes for the more addicitive they become
Why is alcahol a bad life choice?
A depressant
It slows your reaction and alters the way you see, hear more and respond to things
Small amounts) relax
Large amounts: change in brain: drunk
It is banned in some sports as it produces a calming effect
What are the negative effect of lifechoices?
Negative: body and mind-can be long term or short term
-generally people are motivated to change their behaviour to gain positive benefits than to avoid negative effect
Unhelathy lifestyle choices lead to(7)
- increased stress
- depression
- obesity/being overweight
- lead to coronary heart diease
- increase likelyhood of cancer
- increase likelyhood of cancer
- type 2 diabetes
- osteoporosis
What are the effects of smoking?
- shortness of breath
- reduced lung capacity
- heart disease
- bronchitis and lung disease
How is heart disease an effect of smoking?
Tabaco smoke is a major risk factor in heart disease. Increases chance of blood clots that can cause heart attacks
How is bronchitis and lung disease an effect of somking?
-long term inflammation of the lining of your bronchiol tubes, to carry air to and from your lungs
What is the affect of alcahol on the body?
- liver damage
- damages your heart abd circulatory system-increases blood pressure
- causes pancreas to produce toxic substances
- weakens immune system
Benefits of a healthy lifestyle
- increased mobility
- motivated by gains
Benefits of a healthy lifestyle?
- increased life expectancy
- generate happiness
- improve memory and concentration
- increased educatiinal achievements
- reduces stress
- prevents long term injury
2 neagative effects of lack of sleep on physical health and well being
- high blood pressure
- increased risk of diabetes
