Laws of Health
Name the 8 Laws of Health. (NEW START)
What are Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sunlight, Temperance, Air, Rest, and Trust in God?
The recommended amount of a food or drink that you should eat.
What is a serving size?
True or False: In many cultures, preparing food is a way to show people that you care about them
To inhale and exhale, in through the nostril and purse through the mouth.
The medical term for the throat, which serves as a pathway for both air and food?
What is the pharynx?
How much rest should you be getting PER NIGHT?
What is 7-10 hours?
Food that is grown without the use of synthetic pesticides and herbicides and promotes biodiversity.
What is organic food?
This food looks like a banana, but it is used as a vegetable in many cultures.
What is a plantain?
The normal resting respiratory rate. (For a healthy adult and school aged child)
(Adult) What is 12 to 20 breaths per minute?
(School aged child) What is 18-30 breaths per minute?
This structure, also known as the windpipe, is supported by C-shaped hyaline cartilage rings.
What is the trachea?
Scientific measurements of this "law" show that while our blood is about 82% of this substance, our lungs are even higher at approximately 90%.
What is Water?
This is a way to dispose of food waste in an environmentally responsible manner.
What is composting?
The way you see your body is called ______ _______.
What is body image?
This dome-shaped muscle at the base of the chest cavity contracts and flattens to pull air into the lungs.
What is the diaphragm?
This flap of tissue acts as a trapdoor to cover the larynx during swallowing to prevent food from entering the trachea.
What is the epiglottis?
While the body can survive weeks without food, this specific law is considered the most essential because cells begin to die within minutes without its primary component, oxygen.
What is Air?
Any food that has been changed from its original form to something else.
What is a processed food?
What is the name of the natural sugar that dairy foods contain?
What is lactose?
This initial stage of cell respiration takes place in the cytoplasm and does not require oxygen.
What is glycolysis?
These air-filled sacs are responsible for the main exchange of gases with the blood stream.
What are the alveoli?
Exposure to sunlight triggers the brain to release this "happy hormone" that helps regulate mood.
What is serotonin?
This type of fat lowers your good cholesterol and increases your bad cholesterol.
What is trans fat?
Where are two places you can get reliable nutrition information and two places you are likely to get unreliable nutrition information?
Reliable: Registered dietitians, health teacher, school nurse, doctor and publications from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Unreliable: ads on TV, computer, phone, and social media; reality tv shows
This is the primary cellular energy molecule produced as the end-goal of cell respiration.
What is ATP?
The right lung has three lobes, while the lung has only two because the heart occupies part of its space.
What is the left lung?