Lifespan Midterm Review

Life Expectancy in the 1900s

47 years old

Chronic diseases are primarily caused by

Sedentary lifestyle

What is the ability to carry out daily tasks with vigor and alertness.

Physical fitness

What major change occurred to life expectancy in the 20th century?

It rose.

Benefits of incorporating physical activity into your lifestyle reflects on what aspect?

Benefits of health.

Anaerobic refers to what process?

The production of energy without oxygen.

What is fiber's role in health?

Slows the emptying of the stomach, prevents constipation, and lowers the risk of heart disease.

What is the overload principle?

Doing MORE.

What does the FITT process stand for?

Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type.

Prolonged activities like distance running rely on what type of energy production?

Aerobic metabolism.

What are the components of muscular fitness?

Strength, endurance, and flexibility.

What essential nutrient provides growth, maintenance, and repair?

Proteins.

What are stressors?

Factors that disrupt a personal natural state of balance, can be positive or negative.

What are personal stressors?

Factors like anger, workaholism, and disability.

What factors affect calorie needs?

Gender, age, body frame, and weight.

What are the macronutrients?

Water, carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.

What percentage of blood is water?

85%.

What percentage of muscle is water?

70%.

What percentage of the brain is water?

75%.

What defines exercise?

Structured activity.

What is unsaturated fat?

The healthiest type of fat.

What are functions of vitamins?

They help macronutrients to be used effectively by the body.

What are fat-soluble vitamins?

Vitamins that are stored in the body.

What are the three stages of general adaptation syndrome?

Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaustion.

What dimensions of health are included?

Emotional, physical, and intellectual.

What is the environmental dimension of health?

It focuses on the conditions in which we live.

What is the number one actual cause of death?

Diet.

What compound provides our body with glucose?

Carbohydrates.

Health literacy refers to what?

Understanding, processing, and obtaining basic health information.

What is self-directed learning?

Controlling your learning objectives and the way you learn.

What agency focuses on preventing and controlling diseases, injuries, and disabilities?

CDE.

What is a health risk?

A factor that increases susceptibility to disease or injury.

What is classified as a Group One carcinogen?

Meat.

What are determinants of health?

Factors influencing health such as food labeling, smoking bans, and gun control.

What dimension of health does money and resources fall under?

Financial.

What is the premise of the stages of change model?

Behavior change is a process.

What does health discipline study?

The occurrence, distribution, and determinants of health.

What causes infectious diseases?

Bacteria and pathogens.

Examples of social determinants of health include?

Social support, social norms and attitudes, and the availability of good schools.

What was the leading cause of death between ages 20-29?

Unintentional injuries.

What was the actual leading cause of death?

Diet.

What types of diseases were prevalent in the 1900s?

Infectious diseases.

What are examples of infectious diseases?

Pneumonia, tuberculosis, and diarrheal diseases.

What are Sublimation, stress inoculation, and relaxation.

stress survival tools