Health Final Study Guide

  • Health: A Combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being

  • Physical Health: All about how well your body functions

  • Mental/Emotional Health: all about your feelings and thoughts

  • Social Health: how well you get along with others

  • Wellness: an overall state of well-being

  • Chronic Disease: an ongoing condition or illness, such as obesity or cancer

  • Heredity: all traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents

  • Culture: the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group

  • Risk Behaviors: actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others

  • Abstinence: deliberate decisions to avoid risk behaviors

  • Infection: a condition that occurs when pathogens in the body multiply and damage body cells

  • Lifestyle Factors: things that can make a difference in people’s overall health, happiness, and longevity

  • Mental/ Emotional Health: the ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in life

  • Resilience: the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis

  • Self-Esteem: how much you value, respect, and feel confident in yourself

  • Competence- having enough skills to do something

  • Self-Actualization- to strive to be the best you can

  • Personal Identity: your sense of yourself as a unique individual

  • Personality- a complex set of characteristics that makes you unique

  • Character- The distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves

  • Integrity: a firm observance of core ethical values

  • Constructive Criticism: Making a helpful suggestion without judging your friend or offering blame

  • Empathy: the ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels

  • Hostility: results in harm to the hostile person and to others

  • Distress: a negative stress that prevents you from doing what you need to do, or stress that causes discomfort

  • Stressor: anything that causes stress

  • Psychomatic Response: Physical reaction that results from stress rather than from an injury

  • Chronic Stress: Stress associated with long-term problems that are beyond a person’s control

  • Coping- dealing successfully with difficult changes in your life

  • Mourning: the act of showing sorrow or grief

  • Anxiety: the condition of feeling uneasy or worried about what may happen

  • Depression: Long-lasting feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness

  • Apathy: a lack of strong feeling, interest, or concern

  • Mental Disorder: An illness of the mind that can affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person

  • Stigma: A mark of shame or disapproval that results in an individual being shunned or rejected by others

  • Mood Disorders: extremes of emotion, much more severe than the normal highs and lows of daily life

  • Alienation: Feeling isolated and separated from everyone else

  • Nutrition- the process by which your body takes in and uses food

  • Nutrients- substances in food that your body needs to grow, repair, and supply with energy

  • Calories- a unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses

  • Hunger- the way your body signals that it needs fuel

  • Carbohydrates- are used by breaking down and simple glucose

  • Protein- a chemical composed of amino acids, and 9 are required

  • Cholesterol- needed to create cell walls, certain hormones, and vitamin D

  • Vitamins- perform different functions in the body and consist of two types

  • Minerals- a solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence

  • Metabolism- the process by which your body breaks down substances and gets energy from food

  • Body Mass Index- a measure of body weight related to height

  • Body Image- the way in which you see your body

  • Fad Diets-diets that promise quick, easy weight loss, and gain back fast

  • Anorexia Nervosa- an irrational fear of weight gain leading to people starving themselves

  • Bulimia Nervosa- fear of weight gain, binge, purging

  • Binging Eating Disorder- eating binges in much the same way as bulimia