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Heallth Quiz 1
Basic Health Info
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Health Care
10th Grade
09/09/2014

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Term
What is Health?
Definition
physical, social, mental well being
it is always changing throughout ones day and life
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The Health Triangle: Holistic Affect
Definition
One are of health impacts the other two sides of the triangle
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Factors that Influence Health
Definition
medical care, environment, hereditary, lifestyle
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Factors that Influence Health: Medical Care
Definition
access to doctors, dentists, and health care
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Factors that Influence Health: Environment
Definition
World around you
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Factors that Influence Health: Hereditary
Definition
Genes you received from parents
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Factors that Influence Health: Lifestyle
Definition
choices you make
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Annual Teenage Death Causes?
Definition
Car accidents
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Health Appraisal
Definition
Assigning a value to your health level
Term
Risk Factors+ Healthful Behaviors=
Definition
Health level
combining these factors will place you somewhere on the health continuum
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Health Continuum
Definition
Health is always changing throughout ones day and life
Term
How can Everybody Enhance Their Level of Health?
Definition
become aware of your behaviors, acquire knowledge, apply skills, make good decisions
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Abstinence
Definition
deliberate decision to avoid high risk behaviors, including sexual activity and using tobacco, alcohol, other drugs
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Cumulative Risks
Definition
Related risks that increase the effect with each added risk
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Prevention
Definition
Taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse
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Media
Definition
Various methods for communicating information
Term
Peers
Definition
People of the same age with the same interests
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Culture
Definition
collections of beliefs, custom, behaviors of a group
Term
Chronic Disease
Definition
An ongoing condition or illness
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Responsible Decision Making Model
Definition
1-Problem?
2-Solutions?
3-Establish criteria
4-make decision
5-evaluate
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Why do we age?
Definition
Free Radicals
Term
Free Radicals
Definition
Byproducts of the cell activity, produced by the mitochondria and slam into each cell in your body thousands of times a day
Term
Cancer and Aging
Definition
when free radicals damage DNA it alters the cells blue print making it foreign to the body. the cells must either be destroyed or it will replicate itself with damaged DNA
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Antioxidants
Definition
have the ability to neutralize some of these radicals and reduce the damage done to cells
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Antioxidant rich foods include
Definition
beans, blueberries, cinnamon, walnuts
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