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Obesity
Eating disorder
Physical activities
The essentials of fitness
diet and health
100
adipokines, hormones released by visceral adipose tissue.
why should fat in the abdomen bring extra risks to the heart
100
a strong laxative
What is cathartic
100
planned, structured, and repetitive bodily movement that promotes or maintains physical fitness.
What is exercise?
100
requiring oxygen. Aerobic activity strengthens the heart and lungs by requiring them to work harder than normal to deliver oxygen to the tissues.
What is aerobic?
100
diseases characterized by slow progression, long duration, and degeneration of body organs due in part to such personal lifestyle elements as poor food choices smoking, alcohol use, and lack of physical activity.
What is chronic disease?
200
excess fat in the abdomen and around the trunk.
What is central obesity?
200
an agent that causes vomiting
What is emetic
200
physical activity that requires a large increase in breathing and /or heart rate and expends more than 7 calories per minute.
What is vigorous intensity physical activity?
200
the efficiency of a muscle contraction, measured by force and time.
What is muscle power?
200
diseases that are caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites, and other microbes and can be transmitted from one person to another through air, water, or food; by contract; or through vector organisms such as mosquitoes and fleas.
What is an infectious diseases?
300
fat stord within the abominal cavity in association with the internal abdominal organs; also called intra-abdominal fat.
What is visceral fat?
300
recurring episodes of binge eating combined with a morbid fear of becoming fat; usually followed by self-induced vomiting or purging.
What is bulimia nervosa?
300
regular practice of an activity, which leads to physical adaptations pf the body with improvement in flexibility, strength, or endurance.
What is training?
300
temporarily diminished capacity, due to exertion. muscle fatigue may result from depleted glucose or oxygen supplies or other causes.
What is fatigue?
300
factors known to be related to(or correlated with) diseases but not proved to be causal.
What is risk factors?
400
an indicator of obesity or underweight, calculated by dividing the weight of a person by the square of the person's height.
What is body mass index(BMI).
400
an eating disorder whose criteria are similar to those of bulimia nervosa, excluding purging or other compensatory behaviors.
What is binge eating disorder?
400
bodily movement produced by muscles contractions that substantially increase energy expenditure.
What is physical activity?
400
an increase in size( example, of a muscle) in response to use
What is hypertrophy?
400
higher than normal blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
500
fat stored directly under the skin(sub means "beneath", cutaneous refers to the skin.
What is subcutaneous fat?
500
a potential fatal triad of medical problems seen in female athletes: disorder eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis.
What is female athlete traid
500
physical activity that develops muscle strength, power, endurance, and mass.
What is resistance exercise?
500
a decrease in size (for example, of a muscle) because of disuse.
What is atrophy?
500
the sudden shutting off of the blood flow to the brain by a thrombus, embolism, or the bursting of a vessel(hemorrhage)
What is stroke?