Transcript Backtrack through Chapter 1

Backtrack through Chapter 1
Nutrition
Mrs. Millard
#1
1. What are four benefits people might
notice when they begin taking steps to
improve their health?
• Feel stronger, feel more alert, feel better
about self, find is easier to cope with
daily stresses, feel more satisfied with
performance at home, school, work, play;
begin to experience better relationships
#2
2. What are the three major components of
wellness?
• Physical health, mental health, social
health
#3
• What is holistic medicine?
• Is an approach to health care that focuses
on all aspects of patient care- physical,
mental and social
#4
4. What is a risk factor?
• Characteristic or behavior that influences a
person’s chance of getting a disease
#5
5. Name four lifestyle choices that will affect
a person’s chances of getting a disease.
• Decisions about smoking, decisions about
nutrition, decisions about stress
management, decisions about excercise
#6
• List three factors that decrease the quality
of the environment.
• Air pollutants
• Water pollutants
• Food contaminants
#7
• What is one way patients sometimes
interfere with the quality of their
healthcare.
• Fail to get regular checkups
• Fail to seek help with symptoms appear
• Fail to share info with physicians
• Fail to follow physicians advice
#8
8. What are two reasons people develop
poor health habits?
• Take good health for granted
• Do not notice slow toll poor habits have on
health
• Fail to realize how addictive some poor
health behaviors can be
#9
9. What is epidemiology?
A branch of science that studies the
incidence of disease in a population
#10
• List three main nutrition problems that are
affecting the current state of wellness in the
US?
• 1/3 of the people in the US eat an
inadequate diet, one out of 3 adults is
overweight, popular lifestyles include less
and less exercise, important nutrients
missing out of diets of some groups, fat
cholesterol and sugar intake are higher
then recommended
#11
Explain in your own words the difference
between mental and social health
#12
12. Why do role expectations sometimes
come into conflict?
#13
13. Why is the holistic approach considered
a good approach to personal health?
#14
14. Explain the relationship between peer
pressure and health habits.
#15
15. Why is it often difficult to make changes
in personal health habits?
#16
16. Explain the relationship between eating
habits and life expectancy.
• Improved eating habits over the last 100
years has increased the life expectancy in
the US
#17
Refer to figure 1-2 in the text. Where would
you place yourself on the wellness
continuum today- at the center, near the
optimum health end, or near the
premature death end? What factors
caused you to identify this point?
#18
Give a specific example of how a teen might
take a holistic approach to wellness?
#19
• If you were concerned about the mental
health of a close friend, what would you
do?
#20
Describe a constructive health related habit
you have observed in the life of one of
your family members.