Healthy Lifestyles
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Course Introduction
Healthy Lifestyles explores the principles and practices essential for maintaining physical, mental, and social well-being throughout life. The course examines topics such as nutrition, physical activity, stress management, sleep hygiene, substance abuse prevention, and healthy relationships. Students will assess their own lifestyles, learn goal-setting strategies, and develop personalized wellness plans. Emphasis is placed on understanding the impact of daily choices on long-term health outcomes and on building lifelong habits that promote optimal wellness and disease prevention.
Recommended Textbook Fit and Well Core Concepts and Labs in Physical Fitness 11th Edition by Thomas Fahey
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Wellness, Fitness, and Lifestyle Management
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Q1) What was the most serious threat to one's health in the early 1900s?
A) coronary heart disease
B) cancer
C) infectious disease
D) stroke
Answer: C
Q2) What element does environmental wellness include?
A) trust
B) communication skills
C) meditation
D) waste reduction
Answer: D
Q3) Which activity best describes emotional wellness?
A) taking time to explore your thoughts and feelings
B) getting regular medical checkups
C) being open to new ideas
D) finding principles by which to live your life
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Principles of Physical Fitness
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Q1) What is muscular endurance?
A) the ability to resist fatigue and to sustain muscular tension over time
B) the ability to move the joints through a full range of motion
C) the amount of force a muscle can produce with a single maximum effort
D) the amount of time required to contract a muscle completely
Answer: A
Q2) Which condition is closely linked to heart disease?
A) low cardiorespiratory fitness
B) low muscular strength
C) poor flexibility
D) poor reaction time
Answer: A
Q3) A warm-up reduces the temperature of muscles.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Moderate levels of physical activity can improve brain health and function.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Cardiorespiratory Endurance
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Q1) Exercise reduces levels of high blood pressure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which response occurs immediately when one exercises?
A) less blood flow to the skin
B) decreased ventilation (breathing)
C) decreased blood flow to the liver
D) increased heart rate
Answer: D
Q3) During exercise in the heat,which problem is associated with muscle fatigue?
A) dehydration
B) heat cramps
C) heat exhaustion
D) heatstroke
Answer: B
Q4) Stretching should be part of the pre-exercise warm-up.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Muscular Strength and Endurance
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Q1) What is the best way to improve muscular endurance?
A) Use heavy resistance with few repetitions.
B) Use medium resistance with a medium number of repetitions.
C) Use light resistance with many repetitions.
D) Do resistance exercises for each muscle no more than 2 days per week.
Q2) Power activities such as sprinting use predominantly fast twitch muscle fibers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which muscle group do crunches develop?
A) quadriceps
B) rectus abdominis
C) gastrocnemius
D) deltoids
Q4) How does strength training help prevent and manage chronic disease?
A) increasing systolic blood pressure
B) increasing LDL cholesterol
C) improving glucose metabolism
D) decreasing bone density
Q5) How does one make progress in a weight training program? When and how should a person increase resistance for safe training benefits?
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Chapter 5: Flexibility and Low-Back Health
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Q1) According to The American College of Sports Medicine,how many days a week should one perform stretching exercises?
A) 2 or 3
B) 3 or 4
C) 4 or 5
D) 5 or 6
Q2) Which benefit can stretching provide?
A) It allows muscles to lengthen.
B) It can increase risk of injury.
C) It can lead to inflexibility.
D) It can make connective tissue brittle.
Q3) Increased flexibility can improve performance in some sports by allowing a person to exert force through a greater range of motion.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Numbness in the foot is a possible symptom of damaged intervertebral disks.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain how stretching affects muscles to improve flexibility.
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Chapter 6: Body Composition
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Q1) People who gain weight in which body area are at greater risk for early onset heart disease?
A) thighs
B) hips
C) abdomen
D) buttocks
Q2) Which approach helps avoid errors in bioelectrical impedance analysis?
A) Using a variety of instruments to compare measures over time
B) Avoiding dehydration prior to the measurement
C) Avoiding deep breathing during the measurement
D) Avoiding underhydration prior to the measurement
Q3) For a person who is overweight,increasing physical activity can benefit health even if it doesn't result in a change in body weight or percent body fat.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The cause of type 2 is that the pancreas produces little or no insulin.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the health effects of too much and too little body fat.
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Chapter 7: Putting Together a Complete Fitness Program
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Q1) Stability balls add variety and challenge to a workout and can help you target certain muscle groups more effectively.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Health experts find that simple motivators such as using a pedometer,walking a dog,or training for a "fun run" helped people stay with their walking programs.
A)True B)False
Q3) A goal of 60 minutes of moderate activity per day is appropriate for children and teens.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the final step in physical fitness program planning?
A) making a commitment
B) monitoring your pre-program activity habits
C) establishing mini goals
D) including physical activities
Q5) Outline the steps presented in the text for developing a personal fitness plan.
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Chapter 8: Nutrition
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Q1) Which statement describes complete protein sources?
A) They supply all essential amino acids.
B) They supply more energy than incomplete protein sources.
C) They are stored in the body as fat.
D) They increase serum cholesterol levels.
Q2) Which statement refers to phytochemicals?
A) They are essential nutrients.
B) They provide the body with energy.
C) They are found only in vitamin and mineral supplements.
D) They occur naturally in plant foods.
Q3) Which vitamin enhances the absorption of iron?
A) calcium
B) vitamin B-12
C) vitamin D
D) vitamin C
Q4) How many calories of energy are in a gram of protein?
A) 2
B) 4
C) 7
D) 9
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Chapter 9: Weight Management
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Q1) If a person is trying to maintain weight loss,authorities recommend at least 60 minutes of moderate physical activity per day.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which element in the energy balance equation is under individual control?
A) energy for food digestion
B) energy for resting metabolism
C) energy for basic body functions
D) energy intake from food
Q3) Which hormone may link to obesity?
A) leptin
B) adrenaline
C) epinephrine
D) creatine
Q4) A history of weight loss reduces metabolic rate.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe research pertaining to high-tech monitoring devices to aid overweight patients with weight/fat loss.
Q6) Describe the steps in creating an individualized weight-management plan.
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Chapter 10: Stress
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Q1) Which is the relaxation technique that asks the person to identify all the perceptible qualities of a relaxing environment?
A) progressive relaxation
B) visualization
C) meditation
D) controlled breathing
Q2) Meditation practices can elicit the relaxation response.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Tom is very anxious about an upcoming exam.He has no appetite,is easily distracted,and has a headache.What stage of GAS is Tom in?
A) alarm stage
B) acceleration stage
C) resistance stage
D) exhaustion stage
Q4) Adequate sleep improves mood,fosters feelings of competence and self-worth,enhances mental functioning,and supports emotional functioning.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Cardiovascular Health
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Q1) High blood pressure has obvious early warning signs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) LDL cholesterol is the less healthy form of cholesterol.
A)True
B)False
Q3) For adults,blood pressure is diagnosed at a level of ?______ or above.
A) 120/80
B) 130/85
C) 140/90
D) 150/95
Q4) Smoking raises levels of HDL cholesterol in the blood.
A)True
B)False
Q5) At what age should cholesterol testing begin?
A) 20
B) 35
C) 50
D) 65
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Chapter 12: Cancer
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Q1) Use of tanning lamps is not linked to skin cancer,because tanning lamps emit a safe form of UV radiation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If not detected early,basal cell carcinoma is the most dangerous form of skin cancer.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The spread of cancer cells to parts of the body distant from the site of the original tumor is called metastasis.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which is the most common cancer in men?
A) colon cancer
B) prostate cancer
C) lung cancer
D) leukemia
Q5) Prostate cancers can sometimes be detected with a blood test.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Substance Use and Abuse
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Q1) Recurrent use of drugs can be classified as substance abuse.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A person with a BAC of 0.08% is considered legally drunk.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Undiluted sidestream smoke contains higher concentrations of toxic compounds than mainstream smoke.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which statement about treatments for alcoholism is true?
A) All alcoholics can be treated successfully.
B) Lifestyle management is one form of treatment.
C) The majority of alcoholics recover on their own.
D) Nearly all treatment programs focus on chemical substitutes.
Q5) Alcohol use contributes to more than half of all murders,assaults,and rapes.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define these key concepts relating to substance use and dependence: psychoactive drug,intoxication,substance abuse,and substance dependence.
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Chapter 14: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Q1) What directly or indirectly causes about 8% of all new U.S.cases of HIV?
A) sharing of drug injection equipment contaminated with HIV
B) the blood supply in licensed blood banks
C) the blood supply in licensed plasma centers
D) perinatal transmission
Q2) The use of lubricants containing nonoxynol-9 can help further reduce the risk of HIV transmission when condoms are used.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Choose one of the bacterial STDs discussed in your text,and describe the symptoms and special problems associated with the infection.List the ways in which the disease may be detected,diagnosed,and treated.
Q4) Describe the current pattern of HIV infection in the United States and worldwide.What groups of people and areas of the world are most affected? How is the virus most likely to be transmitted?
Q5) For a male to infect a female with HIV during vaginal intercourse,ejaculation must occur.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Environmental Health
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Q1) Discuss ways to prevent chemical pollution.
Q2) What causes most of the stress humans have put on the environment?
A) air pollution
B) water pollution
C) the rapid expansion of the population
D) the loss of the ozone layer
Q3) Which suggestion could help reduce air pollution?
A) Replace compact fluorescent bulbs with incandescent bulbs.
B) Discard paint properly after it has been used.
C) Keep your car tuned up and well maintained.
D) Do not smoke, and do not allow others to smoke in your environment.
Q4) Describe the key strategies for controlling energy use.
Q5) What is primarily destroying the ozone layer of the atmosphere?
A) chlorofluorocarbons
B) fossil fuels
C) solid waste
D) fluid waste
Q6) Describe the primary factors that may eventually put a cap on human population.
Q7) Describe the factors that contribute to population growth.
Q8) Describe the Air Quality Index's five major air pollutants.
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