Health Benefits of Physical Activity
Movement of the body caused by skeletal muscle contraction.
What is physical activity?
To achieve substantial health benefits, adults should undertake this many minutes a week of moderate-intensity physical activity.
What is 150 minutes?
The Study of distribution and determinants of disease and disability is populations.
What is epidemiology?
The amount at which physical activity or exercise is performed.
What is time?
When energy intake exceeds energy expenditure.
What is excess calorie intake?
The physiologic capacity of the systems of the body that are affected by physical activity.
What is physical fitness?
To achieve more extensive health benefits, adults should perform this many minutes per week.
What is 300 minutes a week?
Can be defined as all that is external to the host organism.
What is environmental health?
How often an exercise or physical activity is performed.
What is frequency?
Can provide major challenges to acquiring a healthy diet and to finding safe, affordable opportunities to engage in physical activity and exercise.
What is the socioeconomic status?
Energy that is used to keep the body alive.
What is the basal metabolic rate?
Adults should perform this activity at least two days a week.
What is strength training?
The area addresses important skills such as budgeting, policy, development, and analysis.
What is health administration and policy?
The specific mode of physical activity or exercise.
What is type?
These behaviors can provide a variety of challenges to making positive lifestyle changes to achieve caloric balance and a healthy weight.
What is culture?
The subset of physical activity done for the purpose of increasing physical fitness.
What is exercise?
Adults should strengthen these major muscle groups.
What are the legs, hips, back, chest, abdomen, shoulders, and arms?
The process by which public health officials educate and provide information to the public on health and disease.
What is health promotion and health education?
How hard a person works, of the physical effort required to perform physical activity.
What is intensity?
Obesity and overweight increase for many because of this.
What is age?
What is aerobic exercise?
Children and adolescents should perform this many minutes a day of physical activity.
What is 60 minutes?
Public health relies on quantitative and qualitative methods to move knowledge to action.
What is biostatistics?
Discontinuing physical activity or exercise.
What is detraining?
These groups have different incidences and prevalences of obesity and overweight.
What are race and ethnicity?