A condition in which the body loses the ability to rid itself of excessive heat through perspiration.
What is Heat Stroke?
100
True or False.
Skipping breakfast is a good way to cut excess calories from the diet.
False. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
100
Any form of movement that causes your body to use energy.
What is Physical Activity?
100
True or False.
Sharing a needle to inject a substance carries the risk of HIV?
True. Blood Borne Pathogens
100
Daily Double
Units of heat that measure the energy used by the body and the energy that foods supply to body.
What are Calories?
200
Daily Double
What influence on your health cannot be changed?
Heredity --> the characteristics passed down from your parents.
200
The process that occurs in the body when nicotine, an addictive drug, is no longer used.
What is Nicotine Withdrawal?
200
The state in which the body is poisoned by alcohol or another substance and the person's physical and mental control is significantly reduced.
What is Intoxication?
200
When carbon monoxide is present in the blood, the body's tissue and cells are deprived of:
Oxygen
200
A cancer causing substance.
What is Carcinogen?
300
Drugs that are used to treat or prevent disease or other conditions.
What is Medicine?
300
True or False.
Children of smokers are less likely to suffer from asthma than children children of non-smokers.
False
300
Avoiding harmful behaviors.
What is Abstinence?
300
A band of fibrous, slightly elastic connective tissue that attaches bone to bone.
What is a Ligament?
300
A bacterial STD that usually affects the mucous membrane.
What is Gonorrhea?
400
Substances other than food that change the structure or function of the body or mind.
What are Drugs?
400
The starches and sugars present in food.
What are Carbohydrates?
400
A condition in which progressive loss of bone tissue occurs.
What is Osteoporosis?
400
A group of alcohol related birth defects that include physical and mental problems.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
400
True of False.
Using tobacco products will improve your physical health.
False
500
The ability of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels to utilize and send fuel and oxygen to the body's tissue during long periods of moderate to -vigorous activity.
What is Cardio respiratory Endurance?
500
A period of time during which a person infected with HIV has no symptoms.
What is Asymptomatic Stage?
500
Attach to bone and cause body movement.
What are Skeletal Muscles?
500
The most serious form of skin cancer.
What is Melanoma?
500
True or False.
Drinking is ok while pregnant as long as it is done in moderation.