Exam 1

• What is known as "heart health" or health related to the heart?

  Cardiovascular
• What are 3 ways to improve health?

  Diet, Exercise, Sleep
• What are the individual energy requirements that vary in diet?

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Weight
  • Height
  • Activity Level
  • Genetics
• With Exercise __% of people are somewhat active, __% of people think they are active enough to maintain good health, and __% actually are active enough for good health

  66, 49, 15
• What is a resource for help with PA, Sleep, and Sedentary Behavior?

  Canadian 24 Hour Movement Guidelines
• The Canadian 24 Hour Movement Guidelines suggests that adults aged between 18-64 should sleep _ to _ hours of sleep/night

  7, 9
• in the 1900's health is described as the "absence of disease". In modern times health is "the overall condition of the body and mind"
• Wellness:

  • expands the idea of health beyond simply having a disease or not
  • optimal health & vitality
  • Decisions about how you live your life
• Dimensions of Wellness:

  Which Dimension has:

  • Eating Well
  • Exercising
  • Avoiding harmful habits
  • Practicing safer sex
  • Recognizing symptoms of disease
  • Getting regular checkups
  • Avoiding injuries

  Physical
• Dimensions of Wellness:

  Which Dimension has:

  • Communication skills
  • Capacity for intimacy
  • Ability to establish and maintain satisfying relationships
  • Ability to cultivate a support system of friends and family

  Interpersonal
• Dimensions of Wellness:

  Which Dimension has:

  • Having abundant, clean natural resources
  • Maintaining sustainable development
  • Recycling whenever possible
  • Reducing pollution and waste

  Environmental
• Dimensions of Wellness:

  Which Dimension has:

  • Optimism
  • Trust
  • Self-esteem
  • Self-confidence
  • Ability to understand and accept ones feelings

  Emotional
• Dimensions of Wellness:

  Which Dimension has:

  • Creating relationships with those who are different from you
  • Maintaining and valuing for your own cultural identity
  • Avoiding stereotyping based on ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexual orientation

  Cultural
• Dimensions of Wellness:

  Which Dimension has:

  • Having a basic understanding of how money works
  • Living within one's means
  • Avoiding debt, especially for unnecessary items
  • Saving for the future and for emergencies

  Financial
• Dimensions of Wellness:

  Which Dimension has:

  • Openness to new ideas
  • Capacity to question
  • Ability to think critically
  • Motivation to master new skills
  • Sense of humour
  • Creativity
  • Curiosity
  • Lifelong learning

  Intellectual
• Dimensions of Wellness:

  Which Dimension has:

  • Capacity for Love
  • Compassion
  • Forgiveness
  • Altruism
  • Joy and Fulfillment
  • Caring for others
  • Sense of meaning and purpose
  • Sense of belongings to something greater than oneself

  Spiritual
• Dimensions of Wellness:

  Which Dimension has:

  • Enjoying what you do
  • Feeling valued by your manager
  • Building satisfying relationships with co-workers
  • Taking advantage of opportunities to lean and be challenged

  Occupational
• What are the 9 Dimensions of Wellness?

  1. Physical
  2. Emotional
  3. Intellectual
  4. Interpersonal
  5. Cultural
  6. Spiritual
  7. Environmental
  8. Financial
  9. Occupational
• What is this called?

  Wellness Continuum

  
• True or False: The Wellness dimensions interact with one or another for positive or negative effects?

  True
• What is the main goal of the Wellness Dimensions?

  Dimensions are balanced & at sufficient levels
• The main focus on this course is Physical Wellness. This is the most easily Accessible and Changeable
• What definition is: The body's overall condition & absence of disease

  Physical Wellness
• What are the health-related components of Physical Wellness?

  • Cardiorespiratory endurance
  • Muscular Fitness
  • Flexibility
  • Body composition
• Life Expectancy in Canada

  • 1900's, a child could expect to live only about 57 years
  • as of 2018, the average Canadian's life expectancy was 82.2 years
  • Males = 80 years
  • Females = 84 years
  • the life expectancy is starting to plateau
• With an life expectancy of 81.9 years, 69.8 are spent healthy and 12.1 years are spent impaired
• What are the top 4 causes of death?

  1. Cancer
  2. Heart Disease
  3. Unintentional injury
  4. Stroke
• __% of a person's risk for disease is due to lifestyle

  50
• Wellness Behaviors: Being Physically Active

  • The human body is designed to be active (survival)
  • Allows the body to respond to or adapt to demands of physical effort
  • __% of Canadians report taking the stairs as most frequent way to add physical activity to their daily lives

  83
• Wellness Behaviors: Avoiding Tobacco/Drug Use & Limiting Alcohol

  • Smoking is the single most preventable cause of cancer
  • Smocking is responsible for __% of all cancer deaths
  • Rise of E-cigs & vaping devices (especially in youth)
  • Better than smoking, but really not great for you
  • Drinking any type of alcohol increases your risk of cancer 


  30
• Wellness Behaviors: Choosing a Healthy Diet

  • Eat well
  • Connect with your diet
• Wellness Behaviors: Maintaining a Healthy Body Weight

  • Excess weight (obesity) increases risk for several types of cancer
  • intake > outake
• Wellness Behaviors: Being Sun Safe

  • Skin Cancer is one of the preventable types of cancer
  • Skin cancer, premature aging of skin & harm to eyes
• Wellness Behaviors: Protecting yourself from Disease & injury

  • Best way of dealing with disease & injury is to prevent them
  • Combining, incorporating multiple wellness behaviours increases your body's resistance to disease and injury
• Wellness Behaviors Types:

  1. Physically Active
  2. Avoid Tobacco, Drugs & Alcohol
  3. Healthy Diet
  4. Maintain Healthy Body Weight
  5. Sun Safe
  6. Protect self from Disease & Injury
• What are the Risks of Prostate Cancer?

  1. Age
  2. Family History
  3. Race
  4. Obesity
  5. Diet
• Wellness Factors Outside of Our Control

  • Heredity, the environment & access to proper healthcare
  • Behaviour can tip the scale toward health, even if heredity or environment is a negative factor
  • Breast cancer can be born with issues but also have the risk reduced by being fit and active
• Moving in a Direction of Wellness:

  1. How is your target behaviour affecting your wellness?
  2. What diseases does this heaviour place you at risk for?
  3. What effect would changing your behaviour have on your helath?
• Definition: belief in one's ability to successfully take action & perform a specific task successfully

  Self Efficacy
• Strategies for boosting self-efficacy:

  1. Locus of control
  2. Visualization & self talk
  3. Role Models