Topic 1.1- Health And Well Being Flashcards
What are the three benefits of increased social health?
What are the four benefits of increased physical health?
What are the six benefits of increased emotional health?
Co operation, ability to mange relationships, friendships and social mixing.
Cardiovascular fitness, better body composition, muscular strength and endurance and flexibility, and other health benefits including less chance of disease.
Feeling good, relieving stress and tension, increasing self esteem and confidence, for enjoyment, emotion and psychological challenge, aesthetic appreciation.
What’s aesthetic appreciation?
What are two examples of chemicals which are released to make the body feel good?
What’s CHD?
What’s hypertrophy?
What’s the definition of well being?
Means enjoying something because its pleasing to look at (eg as an observer rather than as a participant).
Serotonin and endorphin’s.
Coronary heart disease.
When a muscle gets bigger and stronger it undergoes hypertrophy.
A general term used to describe a state of physical, emotional and social health.
What’s the proper definition osteoporosis?
What does physical activity help with?
What happens to muscular endurance with an increase in exercise?
What does improved flexibility reduce the risk of?
What other benefits does increased exercise have?
What does physical exercise have on emotional health (concerning stress)?
A condition causing the bones to become brittle and fragile from loss of tissue, resulting from hormone changes, or a deficiency in calcium or vitamin D.
Weight control.
Improved muscular endurance meaning working longer without tiring.
Injury to ligaments, tendons and muscles.
Being fitter means you’re able to fight off illness. It also reduces the risk of heart attacks, strokes and type 2 diabetes and CHD (Coronary Heart Disease). Exercise can also reduce the risk of some cancers and makes insulin more effective.
Relieves stress and tension from pressures of daily life.
What is the definition of fitness?
What is longevity?
What are some of the positive effects of fitness on wellbeing?
What are some of the negative effects of fitness on wellbeing?
What does smoking damage?
What is emphysema?
What can this cause and why?
What also happens to the heart?
The ability to meet the demands of the environment.
How long a person lives.
Less likely to be off work with sickness. Also gives you lower resting heart rate and blood pressure and gives you stronger bones.
Puts you at risk of sports related injuries. Also, competition pressure can lead to psychological illnesses and can lead to an obsessive interest in weight and performance.
The lungs specifically the alveoli.
Where smoking reduces the number of alveoli and the surface area resulting in poor gaseous exchange.
May cause the smoker to become short of breath due to lack of oxygen in and CO2 out.
The heart has to work harder to get O2 to working muscles and so gets tired quicker.
What are the two types of cholesterol?
What does one of these do to the other?
What does smoking lower?
What two things is nicotine?
What does nicotine do to you?
What does adrenaline do?
What does adrenaline also do (to blood vessels)?
HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol).
HDL helps remove LDL.
HDL levels causing increased chance of blocking and narrowing of arteries leading to an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and heart disease.
A stimulant and is addictive.
Increases heart rate which increases blood pressure because it releases adrenaline.
Increases breathing rate and blood circulation.
Constricts (narrowing) the arteries and causes the heart to beat faster.
What is bronchitis?
What two things can affect your chances of getting lung cancer through smoking?
What three things does lung cancer cause (apart from death)?
What higher risk do you have if you smoke?
What happens to wound healing when you smoke?
What is passive smoking?
What do e cigarettes still contain?
Where the bronchioles become inflamed. Chronic bronchitis is long term.
How much you smoke and how long you smoke for.
Breathlessness, tiredness and less amount of physical exercise.
Blood clots in your legs which are dangerous if they travel to the brain, heart or lungs.
You take longer to heal as the oxygen carrying capacity of blood decreases so less oxygen is getting to wounds.
Causing harm to others in a smokers environment due to that person smoking.
Nicotine.
What is cirrhosis?
What is gastritis?
What does alcohol do to the brain?
What are other effects of alcohol?
What does a healthy diet do to you?
What does living an active lifestyle do to you?]
What three mental illnesses does an inactive lifestyle do to you?
An abnormal liver condition in which there’s irreversible scaring of the liver.
Inflammation of the stomach.
Brain damage including black outs, memory loss and anxiety. Also, long term depression and addiction.
Can damage heart and circulatory system causing problems like strokes and high blood pressure. Can also lead to weight gain and can lead to the pancreas becoming inflamed and liver failure.
Boosts energy levels and supplies body with essential nutrients it needs for a healthy immune system, helps sleep better and reduces risk of heart disease, strokes and type 2 diabetes.
Lowers risk of disease and risk of developing mental health conditions.
Increases risk of low self esteem, anxiety and depression.
What are examples of legal recreational drugs?
What are other forms of illegal recreational drugs?
What is lifestyle choice?
Caffeine, nicotine and ethanol in alcohol.
Heroin, cocaine, LSD, cannabis and ecstasy, which have negative and harmful effects.
The choice we make about how we live and behave that impacts our health.
