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Healthy Decisions - Semester 1
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25
Health Care
9th Grade
12/13/2011

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Term
Overall Health
Definition
The overall well being of your body, mind and relationships with other people and surroundings
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What is the quality of life?
Definition
The general well-being of individuals and societies
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Physical Health
Definition
How well your body functions, how healthy your diet is, excersize reg., etc.
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Mental & Emotional
Definition
The state of being comfortable with yourself, other and surroundings. How you react in life.
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5 stages of sleep
Definition
Stage 1, 2, 3, 4 and REM (rapid eye movement)
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Stage 1
Definition
Awakened eaisly, fragment visual images
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Stage 2
Definition
Eyemovement stops, brain waves get slower
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Stage 3
Definition
Slow brain waves called delta being to appear interspeed with smaller faster waves
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Stage 4
Definition
Hard to wake, no eyemovement or muscle activity, lots of delta waves
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REM
Definition
eyes jerk rapidly, heart rate increases and breathing rate
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Length of a complete sleep cycle
Definition
90-110
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What is health
Definition
How good you feel and how well yyou function
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What is wellness
Definition
The ability to do the things you want to do
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What chemicals effect sleep?
Definition

Serotonin, norepihephnne, adenosine

 

Neurotransmitters

Term
What is the roll of vitamins?
Definition

Help the body function with sickness, repair and damaged tissue or organs

 

Stores in liver

Term
Why are macronutrients important to our diet?
Definition

Provide us with calories and energy

Protein, Fat, Carbohydrate.

Basic Unit - Amino Acid

Term
Beefits of sleep
Definition

Necessary for survival, nervous system to work correctly

Emotions, decisions and social interactions are reduced in sleep

Term
5 components of fitness
Definition

CardioV - abillity of the heart, lungs and vascular system to deliever oxygen rich blood to work muscles during activity

Muscular Strength - force a muscle or muscle group can exert against a heavy resistance

Muscular Endurance - ability of muscle or group to repeat movement many times for a period of time.

Flexibility - degree to which an individualmuscle lengthen

Body Comp. - amount of fat in the body compared to the amount of lean mass

Term
What is cirrhosis
Definition
Chronic disease of the liver marked by degeneration of cells, inflammation and thickening of tissue
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Definition

When your baby has mental and physical birth defects due to alcohol consumption during pregnancy.

low birth weight, small head, development delay, organ dysfunction

Term
COPD
Definition
Chronic Pulmonary Disease, involving constricting of the airways and difficulty or discomfort in breathing
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3 classes of drugs
Definition
Stimulants, depressants and hallucinogens
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Barbiturate
Definition
Depressant - drugs that act as central nervous system
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Opiate and opioid
Definition

Opiate - drug with products found in poppy plants

Opioid - man made drug with chemicals

They are stimulants

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