Nutrition
This essential vitamin is made by the skin when exposed to the sun's ultraviolet rays, and should also be obtained through foods such as salmon and egg yolk or supplemented during winter.
What is Vitamin D?
This type of exercise increases heart rate.
What is Cardio?
True or False - Everyone has the same amount of required daily calories.
What is False? Factors such as metabolism, lifestyle, and general health determine how many calories your body needs. Being aware of how your body feels and what it needs can help you figure out how much to eat.
People who use drugs regularly for a long period of time can develop dependence and ______, meaning they need to take larger amounts to get the same effect.
What is Tolerance?
How much sleep is recommended that adults get each night? (range)
What is 7-9 hours? Research shows chronic lack of sleep/ poor quality sleep increases the risk of health problems like high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, and obesity.
This vegetable contains more water than watermelon.
What is iceberg lettuce?
This is the minimum recommended amount of daily exercise/ physical activity for an adult. (Remember- there are many forms of exercise, do what works best with YOUR body and YOUR goals.)
What is 30 minutes?
True or False- Practicing mindfulness is a solo activity.
What is False? Practicing mindfulness with others can be a powerful reflection tool. Some examples include eye gazing, partner breathing, and laughter yoga.
What drug kills up to half its users who don't quit?
What is Tobacco?
Dreams can occur during any stage of sleep, but what stage (N1- light sleep, N2- deeper sleep, N3- deepest sleep, REM) do people most commonly dream during?
What is REM sleep? During REM sleep, your muscles are paralyzed to prevent you from acting out your dreams.
This essential nutrient makes you feel fuller, helps regulate blood sugar, improves gut health, and reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease.
What is Fiber?
Exercise reduces symptoms of what two mental health disorders?
What are Depression and Anxiety?
______ is a technique that involves eating slowly and without distractions, listening to your body to eat only until you are full, noticing effects food has on your feelings and body, appreciating food, and distinguishing between true hunger and non-hunger triggers for eating.
What is Mindful Eating?
Taking the time to ________ has benefits such as saving money, helping you reach dietary goals, reducing food waste, increasing awareness of nutrition, reducing stress, and maintaining portion controls.
What is Meal Prep?
Your ________ is an internal biological mechanism that directs body temperature, metabolism, and release of hormones to cause you to be sleepy at night and can wake you in the morning.
What is Circadian Rhythm?
This type of fat lowers good cholesterol and increases bad cholesterol.
What are trans-fats?
Being in a ______ is required for weight loss.
What is a Calorie Deficit?
What is 4-7-8 breathing?
What is A mindful breathing technique in which after exhaling all air from your lungs, you inhale through your nose for a count of 4, hold for a count of 7, then exhale through your mouth for a count of 8?
Contemplation, Preparation, Action, and finally Maintenance are the 4 stages of what?
What is changing a health behavior/ creating new habits?
The does REM sleep stand for?
What is Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep? This stage first occurs about 90 minutes after falling asleep. You cycle between non-REM and REM sleep multiple times during a typical night.
These are chemicals produces by plants that protect them from germs and insects, and also provide benefits (antioxidants, anti-inflammatories, and chronic disease prevention) to humans who eat plant foods.
What are Phytonutrients?
_____ exercise, such as sprinting and weightlifting, uses stored energy in muscles and helps increase muscle mass and strength. _____ exercise, such as swimming and biking, uses oxygen to produce energy and helps increase endurance.
What are Anaerobic and Aerobic exercise?
What are the 4 goals of mindfulness?
What are 1) reduce suffering, 2) increase happiness, 3) increase control of your mind, and 4) experience reality as it is?
In 2023, how many people aged 12 and up had Alcohol Use Disorder?
What is 28.9 million people? For reference, the entire population of the United States in 2023 was 334.8 million people. (over 8%)
Caffeine works to keep you awake by blocking the effects of a chemical that makes you sleepy called ______.
What is Adenosine?