Chapter 13: Health Promotion

Age range for the transition between adolescence and adulthood

18-25

Age ranges binge drinking may peak

21-22

Health outcomes for binge drinking

Alcoholism is a disorder that involves long-term, repeated, uncontrolled, compulsive, and excessive use of alcoholic beverages and impairs the drinker's health and social relationships. One in nine individuals who drink will become an alcoholic. Those who do are disproportionately related to alcoholics

Recognize what being overweight or obese is linked to as it relates to health conditions

Being overweight or obese is linked to increased risk of hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease (De Groot & others, 2015; Goh & others, 2016). Overweight and obesity also are associated with mental health problems (Garcia-Toro & others, 2016). For example, in a recent study overweight/obese adults who were depressed were more likely to be characterized by atypical features of depression such as rejection sensitivity and leaden paralysis (a sense of heaviness in arms and legs) than normal-weight depressed adults (Lojko & others, 2015). Young adults' life satisfaction was positively related to not smoking, exercising regularly, using sun protection, eating fruit, and limiting fat intake, but was not related to alcohol consumption and fiber intake

Formal operational stage of cognitive development

Piaget's final cognitive stage, beginning at about age 11 to 15. According to Piaget, although adults are quantitatively more knowledgeable than adolescents, adults do not enter a new, qualitatively different stage. However, some have proposed that young adults move into a qualitatively higher stage called postformal thought that is more reflective, relativistic, and contextual; provisional; realistic; and recognized as being influenced by emotion

Know helpful strategies to make exercise a part of life.

Reduce screen time Chart your progress Get rid of excuses Imagine the alternative