Physical Activity and Nutrition for Health and Fitness: Test 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass

Physical Activity and Nutrition for Health and Fitness: Test 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass Concept 1: - Health, Wellness, Fitness, and Healthy Lifestyles: An introduction What is important for all people? - - Good health - Wellness - Fitness - Healthy Lifestyles Describe the HELP philosophy and explain its implications in making personal decisions about health, wellness, and fitness - Health is available to Everyone for a Lifetime and it's Personal Define the dimensions of health and wellness and how do they interact to influence health and wellness? - - Physical: - Emotional/Mental: - Intellectual: 2Emily Charlene © All Rights Reserved 2025. - Social: - Spiritual: Health-related dimensions of physical fitness: - Associated with good health - Body composition - Cardio Respiratory Endurance - Flexibility - Muscular Endurance - Power and Strength Skill-related dimensions of physical fitness: - Associated with performance - Agility - Balance - Coordination - Reaction time - Speed Identify related national health goals: - How can meeting personal goals contribute to reaching national goals? - 3Emily Charlene © All Rights Reserved 2025. What is physical fitness and how would you measure it? - The body's ability to function efficiently and effectively - Personal fitness program What is wellness and how would you measure it? - Positive component of optimal health - Focusing on strengths and learning to accommodate weaknesses How does health differ from wellness? - Health = freedom from illness and disease Wellness = Quality of life, Sense of well-being How would the medical system benefit from a shift from treatment to prevention? - How much of health and wellness is in your personal control? - All of it. - It's influenced by the person's unique characteristics How do quacks use the terms "holistic" and "wellness" to their advantage? - "holistic" = total Wellness is a term used by the uninformed as well as experts Do you think fitness and exercise are a fad or are they here to stay? - Here to stay Why is knowledge about fitness and wellness important to behavior change? - Functional Fitness: - The ability to perform activities of daily life 4Emily Charlene © All Rights Reserved 2025. Health: - Optimal well-being that contributes to one's quality of life. It is more than freedom from disease and illness, though freedom from disease is important to good health. Optimal health includes high-level mental, social, emotional, spiritual, and physical wellness within the limits of one's heredity and personal abilities Healthspan: - The number of healthy years in your life Includes: - Years free of illness - Debilitating conditions - years of wellness Hypokinetic Diseases or Condition: - Hypo = "under" or "too little" Kinetic = "movement" or "activity" "Too little activity" - Associated with lack of physical activity or too little regular exercise Examples: - Heart disease - low back pain - Type II diabetes 5Emily Charlene © All Rights Reserved 2025. - Obesity Illness: - The ill feeling and/or symptoms associated with a disease or circumstances that upset homeostasis Lifespan: - Number of years you life - Life expectancy Lifestyles: - Patterns of behavior or ways an individual typically lives Metabolic Fitness: - Positive state of the physiological systems commonly associated with reduced risk of chronic diseases (Diabetes and heart disease) Evidenced by: - healthy blood fat (lipid) profiles - Healthy blood pressure - healthy blood sugar and insulin level