Physical Fitness Week 1-Test
Benefits of exercising
- Improves self confidence - Helps you lose/control your weight - Helps you sleep better - Helps build strong muscles - Helps improve your balance
Excess weight affects physical fitness because
- The heart has to pump harder - It's more difficult to exercise - A heavy person gets more tired during exercise
How does stress affect mental and emotional health?
- increases sugar in the blood - decreases mental alertness - puts you in a bad mood - makes you feel edgy and uncomfortable
How does exercise improve your health?
- keeps your gums and skin firmer - keeps your eyes from getting damaged with age - helps prevent blood clots - takes the extra sugar out of your blood - makes you more intelligent
Why is it important to eat complex carbohydrates instead of simple carbohydrates at meals?
- they keep you full longer - they keep you from getting a sugar crash - they keep your blood sugar from rising too high
Macular degeneration
A condition of the eyes in which a person begins to lose vision in some areas
Periodontitis
A condition that can occur when the gums age and become more susceptible to infection
Obese
An individual that is very heavy or overweight
Incomplete proteins don't satisfy the suggested daily intake of protein; only
Complete proteins do
Exercise can prevent
Diseases
Unsaturated fats
Healthy fats from plant or fish sources which tend to be liquid at room temperature
Exercise can lower
Levels of stress in the blood
Essential amino acids
Nine protein building blocks that can't be made by the body so they must be obtained through food
Limiting factors
Obstacles or difficulties that keep a person from accomplishing goals, such as regular exercise
Exercise must be
Regular
Mental focus
The ability to concentrate on thinking tasks
Emotional health
The ability to keep feelings and thoughts stable during the activities experienced in life
Mental health
The ability to think clearly and perform the mental tasks necessary in life
Serving size
The actual amount of food that is eaten in a single meal
Amino acids
The basic building blocks of proteins
Calorie
The measurement of how much energy is in the food that is eaten
Exercise can't easily improve
Type 1 diabetes
Eating disorder
Unhealthy eating habits related to the amount of food eaten
Limiting factors
•Understanding •Money - not being able to afford proper equipment •Location •Family behaviors •Motivation
Blood clot
A clump of red blood cells that are stuck together with various proteins as they move through the body
Estrogen
A hormone released in females
Mental focus can be improved by
Exercise
Chances of getting cancer are lowered if you
Exercise regularly
Saturated fats
Unhealthy fats from animal sources which tend to be solid at room temperature
Dementia
A condition in older people in which the brain doesn't work properly
Dehydrated
A condition in which the body doesn't have all the water it needs to function properly; can be mild or can be severe and lead to death
Hydrated
A condition in which the body has the proper amount of water in it to perform normally
Osteoporosis
A condition in which the bones of a person become thinner and have less strength
Cortisol
A hormone that is released in response to stress that puts sugar in the blood to increase energy and narrows arteries to increase blood pressure
Adrenaline
A hormone that is released in response to stress that speeds up the heart rate, and can increase blood pressure
Pneumonia
A lung infection that can make it difficult to breathe and even cause death
Fiber
A non digestible substance that comes from plant sources; it helps the body move food through the digestible system
Neurological system
A part of the body that is made up of the brain, nerves, and spinal chord
Regular exercise
A plan in which a person chooses to exercise a certain number of times every week
Flexibility
A type of physical conditioning that lengthens the muscles and improves the movement of the joints
Cardiovascular fitness
A type of physical conditioning that primarily strengthens the heart, lungs, and blood vessels
Muscular fitness
A type of physical conditioning that strengthens specific muscles
Skeletal system
The bones found in the body
Sugar high
The hyperactive and edgy feeling that comes when there is too much sugar in the blood stream
Sugar crash
The low energy and hungry feeling that come when the body recovers from a sugar high
Glycemic index
The measure of how quickly foods are being digested in the body
Physical fitness
The measure of the health and condition of the heart, lungs, muscles, and joints of an individual
Waist-to-hip ratio
The measurement of the waist and hips; a ratio used to determine if there is too much fat on a person's stomach for him/her to be healthy
Internal system
The organs inside the body and how they function together
Muscular system
The part of the body that is made up of the muscles
Circulatory system
The parts of the body that are related to the movement of blood
