Health Factors
Longevity
Hotspots
Hotspots
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Key Terms
Boston
100
Choices and habits that affect your chances of getting sick or injured
What are behavioral factors?
100
This term describes regions of the world where people live significantly longer, healthier lives, often reaching 100 years old at rates far above average
What are Blue Zones?
100
The host of the TV Show "Family Feud"
Who is Steve Harvey?
100
Beliefs, values, customs, and arts of a particular group or society
What is Culture?
100
Since 2001, Boston has won this amount of championships in the 4 major sports (football, basketball, baseball, and hockey)
What is 13?
200
Things in life that raise the chance of sickness, injury, or poor health
What are Risk Factors?
200
This CITY holds the largest population of people that live to 100 years old.
What is Okinawa, Japan?
200
Name 2 actors that played Spider Man (must get 2 for credit)
Toby Maguire
Andrew Garfield
Tom Holland
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200
In-person and online communication channels, such as books, TV shows, movies, social media, and advertisements
Media
200
The name of this building: (Hint: named after a founding father of the United States)
What is the John Hancock Building?
Or
What is 200 Clarendon Street?
300
Things in life that lower risk and support good health
What is a Protective Factor?
300
The most commonly consumed food in Okinawa.
What is the purple sweet potato?
300
Name this Famous U.S. City
What is Los Angeles?
300
What is the "Physical Environment"?
The natural surroundings. Air, water, land, climate, ecosystems, buildings, roads, cities....all of which greatly impact human health and behavoir
300
This is the largest neighborhood in Boston by land area, covering over 6 miles.
What is Dorchester?
400
Chemicals in cells that carries genetic information
What is DNA? What are Genes (I'll accept either)
400
Okinawans follow the practice called "hara hachi bu", which instructs one to stop eating when they are approximately this percent full.
What is 80% full?
400
The video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City", released in 2002, is set in a fictional location based off this real U.S. city known for its beaches and nightlife.
What is Miami?
400
Presence of waste in the environment
What is pollution?
400
This Boston Celtics player tragically passed away in 1993. Boston honored his legacy by naming a sports complex/community center after him (located in Roxbury)
Who is Reggie Lewis?
500
Health Problems passed down through genes
What are Genetic Disorders?
500
Many of the Okinawan "centenarians' (people aged 100 or older) have a huge appreciation for life because they surived what historic event during their childhood?
World War II
500
What year was English High School Founded?
1821 (America's first public high school)
500
A person's "Economic Health" is mostly based on what 3 factors (must get at least 2 for credit)
Education, Income, and Healthcare
500
This shoe company was founded in Boston and has sponsored athletes such as Shohei Ohtani and Kawhi Leonard.
What is New Balance?
600
In Okinawa, what protective factor allowed the purple sweet potato to be so widely consumed on the island.
"typhoon proof"...they were buried underground so they were protected during big storms
600
This Japanese concept meaning "reason for being" or "reason to wake up every morning" is considered central to a long fulfilling life.
What is "ikigai"?
600
Name as many "Ivy-League" colleges as you can.
(Hint: there are 7 Total and Harvard is one of them)
Harvard (Cambridge, MA)
Yale (New Haven, CT)
Princeton (Princeton, NJ)
UPenn (Philadelphia, PA)
Columbia (NYC, NY)
Cornell (Ithaca, NY)
Brown
600
Name one Protective Factor that some people have no control over.
Anything related to genetics that helps a a person's health
600
The owner of the Boston Red Sox and The Boston Globe
Who is John Henry?