Questions and CORRECT Answers
Life expectancy in U.S. - CORRECT ANSWER - Men - 77.4 years
Women - 82.2 years
-experts suggest it will decrease over next decade
CVD - CORRECT ANSWER - #1 cause of death
4 major factors influencing health and longevity - CORRECT ANSWER - 1) lifestyle -
13%
2) environment - 21%
3) genetics - 16%
4) quality of health care - 10%
physical wellness - CORRECT ANSWER - all behaviors that keep body healthy
-key aspects: maintaining healthy body weight, achieving physical fitness
emotional wellness - CORRECT ANSWER - social skills and interpersonal relationships
emotional stability - CORRECT ANSWER - how well you deal with day-to-day stressors
environmental wellness - CORRECT ANSWER - influence of environment on your health
as well as your influence on environment
occupational wellness - CORRECT ANSWER - high level of satisfaction in career
, financial wellness - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to live comfortably on income and
have means to save for financial emergencies and goals (retirement)
Healthy People initiative - CORRECT ANSWER - first presented in 1980, revised every
10 years
physical activity - CORRECT ANSWER - all physical movement; occupational, lifestyle,
or leisure time
exercise - CORRECT ANSWER - planned, repetitive, high-intensity leisure time PA
designed to maintain or improve physical fitness
Health Benefits of Exercise - CORRECT ANSWER - -delayed aging (most dramatic after
60)
-increased longevity (men with sedentary lifestyle have 31% greater chance of death)
-improved psychological well-being
cardiorespiratory endurance - CORRECT ANSWER - measure of heart's ability to pump
oxygen-rich blood to working muscles during exercise and measure of muscles' ability to take up
and use oxygen
muscular endurance - CORRECT ANSWER - ability of muscle to generate a submaximal
force over and over again
flexibility - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to move joints freely through their full range of
motion
body composition - CORRECT ANSWER - refers to relative amounts of fat and lean
tissue in body