Chapter 4 - Health promoting Behaviors Flashcards
Aerobic exercise
Moderate to high intensity, long duration in high endurance, exercise believed to contribute to cardiovascular fitness, and other positive health outcomes
Such as Swimming, running, bicycling
Typical exercise prescription for a normal adult is
2 1/2 to 5 hours a week of moderate intensity
Or
1 1/4 or 2 1/2 hours a week of vigorous intensity aerobic physical activity
Or a combination of both
Long term practice of regular exercise is
Heavily determined by habits
Occupational accidents, and the resulting disability, are a large risk for who
Workingmen
The most common causes of death, in disability among children, under the age of five are
Accidental poisoning and falls
The greatest cause of accidental death is
Motorcycle and automobile accidents
Two most common cancer is in the United States are
Breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men
Best way to detect breast cancer in women over 50 are
Mammograms
Why is screening through mammography important for high-risk women
One in every eight women in United States develop breast cancer
The majority of breast cancer detected in women are over 40 and so screening is cost effective
Early detection as to mammograms can improve survival rates
In western countries, the second leading cause of cancer death is
Colorectal (colon) cancer
Percentage of adults that get the recommended servings of fruit and vegetables
13% for fruit and 9% for vegetables
Experts estimate that unhealthful eating contributes to more than
678K deaths per year
Two broad types of sleep are
Nonrapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye-movement (REM)
NREM has four stages
Stage one is the lightest and earliest stage of sleep
Stage two breathing and heart rates even out body temperature drops and brain waves alternate between short burst called sleep, spindles and large K complex waves
Stage three & four is deep sleep, marked by Delta waves
During REM sleep
Eyes, dark back-and-forth, breathing and heart rates flutter, and we often dream
