Two factors that can be used to evaluate health

3 Aspects of health

How can choices made on a daily basis affect your position on the health continuum?

The number of years a person is expected to live

The degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life

A result that a person aims for and works hard to reach

Refers to how well your body functions

The state of being comfortable with yourself, with others, and with your surroundings

Refers to how you react to events in your life

Refers to how well you get along with others

A gradual progression through many stages between one extreme or another

A state of high-level health

What are factors that can influence a person's life? (3)

Three strategies you can use to evaluate risk factors

All the traits that are passed biologically from parent to child.

Whether you are male or female

All of the physical and social conditions that surround a person and can influence that person's health

The beliefs and patterns of behavior that are shared by a group of people and passed from generation to generation

Forms of communication that provide news and entertainment

A behavior that is repeated so often that it becomes almost automatic

Any action or condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other negative outcome

Describe the broad goals of Healthy People 2010 (2)

Three steps you can take to meet your personal health goals

Taking action to avoid disease, injury, and other negative health outcomes

Has the ability to gather, understand, and use health information to improve his or her healt

The standards and beliefs that are most important to you

Involves using communication to influence and support others in making positive health decisions

A series of specific steps you can take to achieve the goal

Describe how to evaluate health products services and information

Evaluate what advertising does and does not do for a consumer

Explain how a person can avoid health fraud

Consumer rights

Promise that a treatment or product will bring about a miracle cure or at least greatly improve a persons health

Buys products or services for personal use

An offer to repair or replace the product if there is a problem

The public promotion of a product or service

A person that tells lies to obtain money or property

Three classes of nutrients that supply your body with energy

How does the body obtain energy from foods

Describe the roles that carbs, fats, and proteins play in your body

the chemical process by which your body breaks down food to release this energy

substances that the body needs to regulate bodily functions, promote growth, repair body tissues, and obtain energy

nutrients made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen

the amount of energy released when nutrients are broken down is measured in units

made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, but in different proportions

have at least one unsaturated bond in a place where hydrogen can be added to the molecule.

fats that have all the hydrogen the carbon atoms can hold

a type of complex carb that is found in plants

a waxy, fatlike substance that is found only in animal products

nutrients that contain nitrogen as well as carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen

Proteins are long chains of smaller "links" that are bound together chemically called--

made when manufacturers add hydrogen to the fat molecules in vegetable oils

Two main classes of vitamins

list seven minerals your body needs in significant amounts

why is water important to the body

a condition in which the red blood cells do not contain enough hemoglobin

nutrients that occur naturally in rocks and soil

help protect healthy cells from the damage caused by the normal aging process as well as from certain types of cancer

nutrients that are made by living things, are required only in small amounts, and that assist many chemical reactions in the body

regulate many processes in your cells

the process of maintaining a steady state inside your body

a serious reduction in the body's water content

Explain how the Dietary guidelines for american's can help you plan a healthful diet

a document developed by nutrition experts to promote health and help people reduce their risk for heart disease, cancer and diabetes through diet and physical health

contain lots of vitamins and minerals relative to the number of calories

groups foods according to types and indicates how much of each type should be eaten daily for a healthy diet.