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Prepare for WGU C458 Health Fitness and Wellness with this comprehensive 2026/2027 study guide featuring practice questions and answers. Review essential topics including health concepts, nutrition, fitness principles, wellness strategies, lifestyle choices, disease prevention, behavior change, and exam preparation techniques. Ideal for WGU revision, self-assessment, practice review, and improving Health Fitness and Wellness course performance.

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Positive Healthy Habits such as exercising daily, getting quality sleep, and following good hygiene
habits can help decrease stress, lower the risk of disease, and increase
energy.


Human Skeletal System provides internal framework to support the body, protects organs, and
enables movement with the muscular system. Consists of bones, cartilages,
ligaments, and tendons and account for 20% of the body weight.


Bones provide the rigid skeleton that constitutes the internal framework the body
needs to stand.




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Skeleton supports and protects the soft organs of the body. Usually consists of 206
bones - long, short, flat, and irregular bones.


Joint also referred to as an articulation, is where two bones come together. 3
categories: immovable, slightly movable, and freely movable.


Cartilage is the tough but flexible tissue that covers the ends of the bones of freely
movable joints and protects bones by preventing them from rubbing against
each other.


Ligament is a connective tissue that binds one bone to another. It usually helps hold
structures together and allows for side-to-side stability.


Tendon is a connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone. Aids in the movement of
the bone or structure.


Achilles Tendon connect the calf muscle to the heel bone.




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The Muscular System enables the heart to beat, the chest to rise and fall during breathing, and the
blood vessels to help regulate the pressure and flow of blood through the
body.


3 Types of Muscles in The Body Striated muscle - is also known as skeletal muscle. It moves all bones and
controls facial expressions and eye movements.
Smooth muscle - or visceral muscle, lines the walls of internal organs, such as
the intestines.
Cardiac muscle - is a unique type of muscle. It is a combination of both
striated and smooth muscle. Only the heart has cardiac muscle.


The Nervous System - the control center for all actions that occur consciously and unconsciously
and the communication among the body parts.
- more than 100 billion nerve cells operate constantly all over the body to
coordinate involuntary activities.
- is the major controlling, regulatory, and communicating system in the body.
- functions include receiving sensory input, sending signals to the brain,
regulating homeostasis, and communicating throughout the body for
movement.




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