Chapter 1 - Understanding Health and Wellness
The combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
What is health?
A complex set of characteristics that makes you unique.
What is your personality?
Deliberately harming or threatening other people who cannot easily defend themselves.
What is bullying?
The ability to carry out daily tasks easily and have enough reserve energy to respond to unexpected demands.
What is physical fitness?
What is a warm-up?
Providing accurate health information and health skills teaching to help people make healthy decisions.
What is Health education?
Chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activities of different body cells.
What are hormones?
Paying close attention to what someone is saying and communicating.
What is active listening?
Intense, short bursts of activity in which the muscles work so hard that they produce energy without using oxygen.
What are anaerobic exercises?
An unfair opinion or judgment of a particular group of people.
What is prejudice?
The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.
What is a culture?
How much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself.
What is self-esteem?
A part you play in your relationships.
What are roles?
An injury to the ligament around a joint.
What is a sprain?
Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations.
What are defense mechanisms?
A condition that occurs when pathogens in the body multiply and damage body cells.
What is an infection?
Non-hostile comments that point out problems and encourage improvement.
What is constructive criticism?
An exaggerated or over-simplified belief about people who belong to a certain group.
What are stereotypes?
Exercising at a level that's beyond your regular daily activities.
What is overload?
What is Health literacy?
An ongoing condition or illness such as heart disease, obesity, or cancer.
What is a chronic disease?
The intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior.
What is hostility?
A policy that makes not exceptions for anybody for any reason.
What is a zero-tolerance policy?
A form of physical stress on the body caused by overheating.
What is heat exhaustion?
Choosing the right types of activities to improve a given element of fitness.
What is specificity?