A healthy lifestyle practice
Heart disease is a hereditary risk factor in Jamal's family. Describe and discuss what kinds of behavioral choices he could make to reduce his risk of developing this disease.
A few kinds of behavioral choices he could make to reduce the risk of developing the disease is to not use alcohol, tobacco, and maintain a healthy diet.
If you wanted to improve your health by making better lifestyle choices, what are five choices that you could make?
Five choices I could make are getting 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night, eating a healthy breakfast, maintaining a healthy weight, maintaining positive relationships, practicing safe behaviors.
Compare the most likely cause of death for an individual born in 1900 and an individual born in 2006.
In 1900, communicable diseases like pneumonia and chi ken pox were the most common causes of death. In 2006, lifestyle diseases like cancer and stroke were the most common cause of death.
Define and describe the different types of risk factors.
Risk factors are anything that increases your chances of injury, illness, or health problems. The different types of risk factors are uncontrollable and controllable risk factors. Uncontrollable risk factors are health risk factors which individuals can not control like age. Controllable risk factors are controlled by your behavior for example choosing weather or not to put on your seatbelt.
What are three things you could do if you were asked to become an advocate for health and wellness?
Three things I can do to advocate for health and wellness is teach a free class, volunteer at hospitals and clinics, and donate money to free clinics.
Heart disease and cancer were two of the most common causes of death in 2006.
True
Someone who promotes health and chooses safe, healthy, and legal behaviors is demonstrating which of the following skills?
being responsible
Lifestyle diseases are caused by a combination of __________.
heredity, unhealthy behaviors, and the environment
An advertisement on the radio warning the public against the dangers of smoking is called a __________.
public service announcement
