Health Triangle
Wellness Vocabulary
Risk Factors
Systems of the Body
Systems of the Body (cont.)
100
This aspect of health is how well your body functions.
What is physical health.
100
This is defined as the well-being of your mind, body and relationships with other people.
What is health?
100
This is one of the steps to optimal health.
What is 1. determine how much you know about your health ....and your family's 2. obtain accurate information about how to stay healthy and how to improve your health. or 3. Take action! ?
100
This is the type of muscle that is in charge of helping us breathe and digest food.
What is smooth muscle?
100
This is the system of the body that is made up of the heart and blood vessels.
What is the circulatory system?
200
This aspect of health is how well you get along with others around you.
What is social health?
200
This is a result that a person aims for and works hard to reach. It is important to improve all 3 aspects of health instead of concentrating on just one.
What is a goal?
200
These are 2 examples of risk factors that can't be controlled.
What is age, gender or heredity?
200
The system of the body that is in charge of moving the skeleton.
What is the muscular system?
200
This is the system of the body that gives the body its basic framework, providing structure and protection to the body.
What is the skeletal system?
300
This aspect of health is how good you feel about yourself and how well you can control day to day demands of your life.
What is mental health?
300
This is defined as the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life
What is quality of life?
300
These are 3 examples of risk factors that can be controlled.
What is inactivity, body composition, high blood pressure, cholesterol, stress and tension, smoking?
300
The is the system that allows a group of organs to work together to convert, process and break down food to energy.
What is the digestive system?
300
This system of the body is in charge of discharging waste from the body.
What is the excretory system?
400
The components of this aspect of health includes learning and stress management.
What is mental health?
400
This is a model that illustrates the full range of health between extremes of illness and optimal health.
What is the illness-wellness continuum?
400
This term refers to the tendency of the body to achieve and maintain internal stability and control despite external changes.
What is homeostasis?
400
This is the system that provides oxygen to the body's cells while removing carbon dioxide.
What is the respiratory system?
400
This is the system that allows blood to circulate throughout the body and transports nutrients, hormones, blood cells, carbon dioxide and oxygen to the body.
What is the circulatory system?
500
This aspect of health includes exercise, nutrition, sleep, alcohol & drugs, and weight management.
What is physical health?
500
This is a diagram that identifies all three aspects of health that are important for overall wellness.
What is the wellness triangle?
500
This is something that puts your health in jeopardy for the worse or the better.
What is a risk factor?
500
This is the system that is responsible for communication in the body and control of the body.
What is the nervous system?
500
This is the system that includes all of the body's glands and hormones produced by those glands.
What is the endocrine system?
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