Transcript What You Will Do Identify changeable risk factors that affect your levels of health and personal fitness. Describe lifestyle choices that can improve.

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What You Will Do
Identify changeable risk factors that affect your
levels of health and personal fitness.
Describe lifestyle choices that can improve overall
levels of fitness and offset negative factors.
Define stress and describe activities that you can
use for stress reduction.
Identify risk factors for developing heart disease.
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Terms to Know
risk factors
heredity
stress
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Risk Factors and Your Behavior
Your life expectancy and the quality of your life
will be influenced by how well you maintain your
functional health and fitness.
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Personal Fitness and
Risk Factors
Term to Know
Achieving and maintaining a
high level of functional health
and fitness is made more
difficult by risk factors.
Conditions and
behaviors that
represent a
potential threat to
an individual’s
well-being.
Risk factors
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Risk Factors You Can’t Modify
Term to Know
Heredity
Risks factors you can’t modify
include age and heredity.
One aspect of heredity is gender,
the natural differences between
males and females.
The sum of the
physical and
mental traits that
you inherit from
your parents.
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Risk Factors You Can’t Modify
Heredity determines your likelihood of
developing certain diseases and disorders.
High blood pressure
Heart disease
Diabetes
Certain types of cancers
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Risk Factors and Your Behavior
Can Modify
1. Heredity
2. Gender
3. Sedentary lifestyle
4. Smoking
5. Food choices
6. Excessive stress
7. Obesity
8. Diabetes
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Changeable Risk Factors
You cannot control risk factors such as heredity
or age, you can lessen their impact on your
health and fitness by changing your behavior.
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Changeable Risk Factors
Adults who are sedentary develop chronic
diseases at a much higher rate than do more
active individuals.
Choosing a physically active lifestyle is one way
to reduce your risks of developing disease and
to live a longer, healthier life.
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Changeable Risk Factors
It is important to practice healthful eating habits.
Knowing what to eat can make a difference
in your health and fitness.
Maintaining a healthy body weight and
making balanced food choices will reduce
your risk of becoming obese.
Obesity is a major risk factor for developing
type 2 diabetes.
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Changeable Risk Factors
It is important to avoid the use of tobacco.
People who smoke or use tobacco products
are at far greater risk of heart and lung
disease than are nonsmokers.
People using chewing tobacco are at a higher
risk for cancer of the throat.
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Changeable Risk Factors
Term to Know
Stress
It is important to manage stress in
your life.
Stress is perfectly normal, but it can
lead to health problems such as
sleeplessness and depression.
The mind and
body’s response
to the demands
and threats of
everyday life.
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Changeable Risk Factors
Managing Stress in Your Life
Adjust Your Eating Habits
Spend Some Time Alone
Maintain a High Level of
Physical Activity
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Lesson 2 Review
Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
1. Vocabulary
What are risk factors?
2. Vocabulary
What is stress?
3. Recall Name three
changeable risk factors
that can impact your
functional health.
1. Vocabulary
2.
3. Recall
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