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Question: 1. Define the word health

Answer: The combination of physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being.

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Question: 2. List important steps you can take to promote your physical health.

Answer: Get 8-10 hours of sleep each night, eat nutritious meals and drink eight cups of water each day, engage in 30 to 60 minutes of physical activity every day, avoid the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, and bathe daily, and floss and brush your teeth every day.

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Question: 3. What is the health continuum? Describe the continuum’s endpoints.

Answer: The health continuum spans the complete range of health, from a loss of health and wellness at one end to high-level wellness at the other.

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Question: 4. How can poor mental/emotional health affect physical health?

Answer: Pessimism may always take a negative outlook, and being tired can drain you mentally, which in turn may make you depressed.

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Question: 5. How might your behaviors today affect your health now? How might they affect your health in the future?

Answer: They might affect you by reinforcing bad habits, resulting in you falling down on the health continuum if you have a habit of say not sleeping enough.

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Question: 1. What does heredity mean?

Answer: All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents

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Question: 2. Define environment. Identify three types of environment.

Answer: Your environment is the sum of your surroundings. They are the physical environment, social environment, and culture.

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Question: 3. Evaluate two ways that media and technology may influence your health.

Answer: They may introduce “role models” (either positive or negative), and it may make you jealous of others, resulting in a negative attitude and poor mental health.

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Question: 4. How does the environment in which you live affect your health?

Answer: It affects your health in that a physical environment that may be dangerous (smog) may damage your lungs.

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Question: 5. Oliver’s family has a history of heart disease. What steps might he take to protect his health?

Answer: He should have regular doctor visits to ensure everything is normal, engage in physical activity, and eat healthy.

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