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Wellness Flashcards

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Cumulative Risk

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Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk

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Hereditary

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All the traits that are biologically passed on from your parents

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Resilient

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The ability to adapt effectively and overcome difficulty, disappointment, or crisis

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Health

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A good balance of all components of wellness, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

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Values

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The ideas, beliefs, and attitudes that help guide the way you live

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Lifestyle Factors

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Personal habits or behaviors related to the way a person lives

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Culture

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Beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group

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Refusal skills

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Communication strategies that help you say no when you are urged to engage in unsafe behaviors

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Prevention

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Taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse

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Hypothalamus

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A small area in center of brain. Plays an important role in hormone production and helps to stimulate processes in the body such as: sleep cycles, body temperature, thirst, and appetite

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Circadian Rythm

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Physical, mental, and behavioral changes that follow a 24-hour day-night cycle

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Biological clock

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A person’s internal timing devices. It produces circadian rythms and regulates their timing

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Insomnia

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A common sleep disorder that affects your ability to sleep

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Melatonin

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A hormone in your body that plays a role in sleep. The production and release of melatonin increases when it’s dark out and decreases when it is light out.

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Environmental Wellness

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Occupying pleasent, stimulating environments that support well-being. It promotes interaction with nature and also creating an enjoyable personal environment

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Occupational Wellness

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The ability to achieve a balance between work and leisure in a way that promotes health, a sense of personal satisfaction and is (for most people) financially rewarding

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Social Wellness

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The ability to interact successfully with people and one’s personal environment

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Financial Wellness

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Having financial security and financial freedom of choice, in the present and in the future

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Spiritual Wellness

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Having a sense of meaning and direction in life that enables you to grow, learn, and meet new challenges

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Intellectual Wellness

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Recognizing one’s creative abilities and finding ways to expand knowledge and skills

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Mental/Emotional Wellness

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When one realizes one’s own abilities can cope with the normal stresses of life, self-regulate during stressful times, can work productively and fruitfully

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Physical Wellness

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Promotes proper care of our bodies for optimal health and functioning

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Wellness

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Optimal health, a way of life, making responsible decisions and lifestyle choices.

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Chronotype

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internal circadian rhythm of a person that influences the 24- hour cycle of sleep and activity (aka your “sleep personality,” or when you like to go to sleep)

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Jet lag

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a disruption of a person’s circadian rhythms from long-distance travel, causing extreme tiredness and other physical effects

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Hypertension

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High blood pressure

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Angina Pectoris

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Pain or tightness in the chest

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Heart attack

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Not enough oxygen and nutrients to the heart muscles

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Cardiac Arrest

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Failure of electrical system in the heart, causing it to suddenly stop beating

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Congestive heart failure

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slow gradual weakening of the heart

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Stroke

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Block of blood flow to the brain

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Cancer

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uncontrolled cell growth

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Metastasis

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The spread of cancer cells beyond their original site

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Benign

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mild, not cancerous

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Malignant

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Cancerous

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SPF

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Sun protective factor

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Osteoarthritis

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Joint inflammation as joints wear out with age and injury.

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Rheumatoid arthritis

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a chronic autoimmune disorder in which the joints and some organs of other body systems are attacked

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