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vocab.1
health
Term | Definition |
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Health | The state of being free from illness or injury |
Wellness | The state of being in good health , especially as an actively pursed goal |
Lifestyle factors | The modifiable habits and ways of life that can greatly influence overall health and well being, including fertility |
Risk factors | Is any attribute, characteristic or exposure of an individual increases the likelihood of developing a disease or injury |
Prevention | The action of stopping something from happening or arising |
Heredity | (of a title,office, or right) conferred by on inheritance |
Environment | The surrounding or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates |
Peers | look keenly or with difficulty at someone or something |
Culture | The arts and manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively |
Values | The regard that something is held to deserve, the importance, worth, usefulness of something |
Abstinence | The fact or practice of restraining oneself from, indulging in something , typically alcohol |
Cumulative Risk | A measure of the total risk that a certain event will happen during a given period of time |
Goals | A pair of posts linked by crossbar and often with net attached behind it, forming a space into or over which the ball has to be sent in order to score |