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Health and P.E
Health and Physical Education terms
Term | Definition |
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Health | Level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living organism. |
Wellness | Generally used to mean a healthy balance of the mind, body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of well-being |
Diet | Sum of food consumed by a person or other organism |
Body Mass Index | Index for assessing overweight and underweight, obtained by dividing body weight in kilograms by height in meters squared: a measure of 25 or more is considered overweight. |
Eating Disorder | Any of various disorders, as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, characterized by severe disturbances in eating habits. |
Mental Health | Psychological well-being and satisfactory adjustment to society and to the ordinary demands of life |
Muscular System | All the muscles of the body collectively, especially the voluntary skeletal muscles. |
Obesity | The condition of being very fat or overweight; corpulence |
Pregnancy | The state, condition, or quality of being pregnant. |
STD | Sexually transmitted disease |