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Health Final Exam 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Health Literate | a person who knows how to access resources from home, school, and the community to provide valid information |
| Heredity on health | the traits of your health that gets passed on from your parents |
| Internal Influence | your knowledge, values, likes, dislikes, and desires are based on your experiences and your perspective on life |
| Good character | a person who demonstrates core ethical values, such as responsibility, honesty, integrity, and respect |
| Food and Drug Administration | an agency that ensures the safety of food, drugs, and cosmetics |
| Specialist | medical doctor trained to handle particular kinds of patients or medical conditions |
| Sedentary Lifestyle | a way of life that involves very little physical activity |
| Fat-soluble Vitamins | vitamins that are absorbed, stored, and transported in fat |
| Calorie Intake | the amount of food you put in your body to give you energy |
| Empathy | the ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels |
| Defense mechanism | mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations |
| Fear | an emotion that increases your alertness, and can trigger physical changes including increases in perspiration, heart rate, and tightening of the muscles |
| Personal Behavior stressors | negative reactions in the body and mind caused by using tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs, or lack of physical activity |
| Anxiety disorders | a condition in which real or imagined fears are difficult to control |
| Grieving process | 1.denial or numbness 2.emotional release, 3.anger, 4.bargaining, 5.depression, 6.remorse, 7.acceptance, 8.hope |
| Arteriosclerosis | the process in which plagues accumulate on artery walls |
| Nicotine | the addictive drug found in tobacco leaves |
| Short term effects of alcohol | judgement is altered, brain becomes less able to control, heart rate goes up, digestive system starts to shut down, and breathing becomes impaired |
| Substance abuse | any unnecessary or improper use of chemical substances for non medical purposes |
| Misuse of medicine | can cancel out other medicines, can cause a greater effect than intended and cause serious illness |
| Physical health | has to with how well your body functions - be able to cope with everyday challenges and stress |
| Cumulative risk | related risks that increase in effect to each added risk |
| Citizenship | the way you conduct yourself as a member of the community |
| Preventive care | actions that prevent the onset of disease or injury |
| Hypothermia | a condition in which the body temperature becomes dangerously low |
| Warm-up | an activity that prepares the muscles for work |
| Saturated fatty acid | holds all the hydrogen atoms it can |
| Electrolytes | minerals that help maintain the body's fluid balance |
| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs | 1.Physical 2. Safety 3. Belonging 4. feeling recognized 5. Reaching potential |
| Resiliency | the ability to adapt effectively and recover from difficulty, disappointment, or crisis |
| External Factors | opinions of family members, friends, and cost; could also be from the media |
| Refusal Skills | communication strategies that can help you say no when you are urged to take part in behaviors that are unsafe, unhealthful, or that go against your values |
| Mental Disorders | an illness of the mind that can affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person, preventing him or her from from leading, a happy, healthful, and productive life |
| Functional Mental Disorders | has a psychological cause and does not involve brain damage. It can be caused from heredity, stress, fear, or and abuse. |
| Nicotine Gum | an over the counter product that people can buy as a nicotine substitute |
| Binge Drinking | drinking five or more alcoholic beverages at one sitting |
| Anabolic-androgenic steriods | synthetic substances similar to male hormone testosterone |
| Abstinence | a deliberate decision to avoid from harmful behaviors, including sexual activity before marriage and the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs |
| Personal behavior | the way a person acts or behaves |
| Long term goal | a goal that you plan to reach over an extended amount of time |
| Online purchase | something you bought online |
| Underwriters Labrotory | a product-safety testing and verification organization |
| Muscle cramps | a spasm or sudden tightening of a muscle |
| Hunger | a natural physical drive that protects you from starvation |
| Nutrients | substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy |
| Obesity | having an excess amount of body fats |
| Healthy idenity | a sense of who you are and your place in the world |
| Pathological fatigue | results when the muscles work vigorously for long periods, often leading to soreness and pain |
| Voluntary responses to stress | The first stage is alarm when the body and mind go on high alert, the second stage is resistance and that's when the body adapts to the rush created by the alarm and reacts the stressor and then afterwards you might feel fatigue because your body is tired |
| Schizophrenia | a severe mental disorder in which a person loses contact with reality |
| Withdrawal process of nicotine | symptoms will include irritability, difficulty concentrating, anxiety, sleep disturbance, and cravings for tobacco |
| Long term effects of alcohol | brain damage, high blood pressure, loss of brain functions, damage to the heart, addiction, fatty liver, and digestive irritation |
| Analgesics | pain relievers |
| Dynamic health | subject to chage |
| Effective communication | a person or situation that helps resolves differences and builds trust |
| Values | the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes, about what is important that help guide the way you live |
| Better Business Bureau | deals with complaints about local merchants |
| Safety in sports | Making sure you are able to play and that there is proper equipment for the sport |
| Lipid | a fatty substance that does not dissolve in water |
| Chronic hostility | when unfriendliness and hatred becomes constant |
| Chronic fatigue | severe continued tiredness that is not relieved by rest |
| Anorexia nervosa | a disorder in which the irrational fear of becoming obese results in severe weight loss from self imposed starvation |
| Personaltiy | a complex set of characteristics that makes you unique |
| Adrenaline | a hormone that speeds up the central nervous system |
| Psychosomatic response | a physical reaction that results from stress rather than from injury or illness |
| Cluster suicides | a series of suicides occurring within a short period of time and involving several people in the same school or community |
| Organic mental disorders | caused by physical illness or an injury that affects the brain |
| Side effects of medicine | it can cause serious illness or cancel other medications out, if taken when it shouldn't be |
| Hallucinogens | drugs that alter moods, thoughts, and sense perception including: vision, hearing, smell, and touch |
| Health Education | the providing of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices |
| Environment | the sum of your surroundings |
| Wellness | an overall state of well-being, or total health |
| Health | the combination of physical, mental/ emotional, and social well-being |
| Peers | people of similar age who share similar interests |
| Risk behaviors | actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others |
| Health People 2010 | a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving health of all people in the United States |
| Character | those distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves |
| Health Advocacy | taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or to support a health-related belief |
| Interpersonal Communication | the exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or more people |
| Short-term goal | a goal that you can reach in a short time |
| Refusal Skills | communicating strategies that can help you say no when you are urged to take part in |
| Role Model | someone whose success or behavior serves as an example for others |
| Stress Management | ways to deal with or overcome the negative effects of stress |
| Health fraud | sale of worthless products or services claimed to prevent diseases or cure other health problems |
| Consumer advocate | people or groups whose sole purpose is to take on regional, national, or even international consumer issues |
| Malpractice | failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards |
| Advertising | a written or spoken media message designed to interest consumers in purchasing a product or surface |
| Comparison shopping | a method of judging the benefits of different products by comparing several factors |
| Hypothermia | a condition in which the body temperature becomes dangerously low |
| Training program | a program of formalized physical preparation for involvement in a sport or another physical activity |
| Muscular Endurance | the ability of the muscles to perform physical tasks over a period of time without becoming fatigued |
| Physical Fitness | the ability to carry out daily tasks easily and have enough reserve energy to respond to unexpected demands |
| Resting heart rate | the number of times your heart beats in one minute when you are not active |
| Strain | a condition resulting from damaging a muscle or tendon |
| Sedentary Lifestyle | a way of life that involves little physical activity |
| Food Additives | substances intentionally added to food to produce a desired effect |
| Minerals | substances that the body cannot manufacture but that are needed for forming health bones and teeth and for regulating many vital processes |
| Fiber | an indigestible complex carbohydrate |
| Underweight | a condition in which a person is less than the standard weight range for his or her height |
| Weight cycling | the repeated pattern of loss and regain of body weight |
| Dietary Supplement | a nonfood form of one or more nutrients |
| Megadose | very large amount of a dietary supplement |
| Mental/Emotional Health | the ability to accept yourself and others, adapt to and manage emotions, and deal with with the demands and challenges you meet in life |
| Defense Mechanisms | mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situation |
| Modeling | observing and learning from the behaviors of those around you |
| Emotions | signals that tell your mind and body how to react |
| Resiliency | the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis |
| Stressor | anything that causes stress |
| Relaxation response | a state of calm that can be reached if one or more relaxation techniques are practiced regularly |
| Psychosomatic response | a physical reaction that results from stress rather than from an injury or illness |
| Mood disorder | an illness, often with an organic cause, that involves mood extremes that interfere with everyday living |
| Conduct disorder | a pattern of behavior in which the rights of others or basic social rules are violated |
| Behavior therapy | a treatment process that focuses on changing unwanted behaviors through rewards and reinforcements |
| Coping | dealing successfully with difficult changes in your life |
| Psychotherapy | an ongoing dialogue between a patient and a mental health professional |
| Carbon Monoxide | a colorless, odorless, and poisonous gas |
| Nicotine substitute | a product that delivers small amounts of nicotine into a users system while he or she is trying to give up the tobacco habit |
| Stimulant | a drug that increase the action of the central nervous system, heart, and other organs |
| Smokeless tobacco | tobacco that is sniffed through the nose, held in the mouth, or chewed |
| Carcinogen | a cancer-causing substance |
| Ethanol | the type of alcohol in alcoholic beverages |
| Depressant | drugs that tend to slow down the central nervous system |
| Blood Alcohol Concentration | the amount of alcohol in a persons blood expresses as a percentage |
| Sobriety | living without alcohol |
| DUI | Driving under the influence |
| Alcohol poisoning | a severe and potentially fatal physical reaction to an alcohol overdose |
| Detoxification | a process in which the body adjusts to functioning without alcohol |
| Illicit drug use | the use or sale of any substance that is illegal or otherwise not permitted |
| Marijuana | plant whose leaves, buds, and flowers are usually smoked for their intoxicating effects |
| Psychological Dependence | a condition in which the user has a chemical need for a drug |
| Anabolic-androgenic steriods | synthetic substances similar to the male hormone testosterone |
| Inhalants | substances whose fumes are sniffed and inhaled to achieve a mind altering effect |
| Psychoactive drug | chemicals that affect the central nervous system and alter activity in the brain |
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