Health Study Guide
Ch 1 Living a Healthy Life
*What is Health
*Know Health Continuum
*Lifestyle factors that promote good health
*What does a health-literate person need to be?
*Know health triangle
*What influences your health
*Good and Bad of Technology
*Risk Behaviors, cumulative risks, abstaining from risk behaviors
Ch 4 Physical Activity for Life
*physical activity/ physical fitness
*Mental, social, and physical benefits of physical activity
*Risks of sedentary lifestyle
*physical activity/weight management
*5 elements of fitness
*Physical Activity Pyramid
*Basics of Physical Activity Program, FIIT method
*S.A.I.D.
*Hot/Cold weather risks with activity, minor/major injuries
Ch 5 Nutrition and your Health
*Good Nutrition
*Influences on Food Choices
*6 Nutrients
*Guidelines for Healthful Eating
*My Plate
*Moderation
*Reading Nutrition Labels
*Minimize Risks of Food borne Illness
Ch 6
*What is body image?
*What is the energy equation?
*Difference between BMI and percent body fat
*Weight related risks: overweight, underweight
*What are healthy ways to manage weight
*Fad Diets. Eating Disorders
*What is weight cycling?
*What are the different types of vegetarians?
Ch 7/8
*What is mental/emotional health
*Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
*What is personality
*What are emotions, dealing with emotions
*What are defense mechanisms
*Stress- causes, effects, managing
*Body’s response to stress
*What is resiliency
*Anxiety and Depression
Ch 9 Mental and Emotional Problems
*Know different types of mental disorders covered
*Strategies to prevent suicide
*what are warning signs of suicide
*know when and where to get help, who to talk to
*Know the steps in the grieving process
Ch 18
*Know glands in endocrine system and what they do
*what are hormones
*problems of endocrine system
*male reproductive system/ organs
*path of sperm
*care/ problems of reproductive system
*female reproductive system/ organs
*menstrual cycle/ ovulation
*care/ problems of female reproductive system
Ch 21 Tobacco
*what is nicotine, what effects on the body-short and long term
*what is a carcinogen
*what is in cigarette smoke
*effects of cigars, pipes, and smokeless tobacco
*Strategies to prevent tobacco use
*withdrawal
*what is ETS
Ch 22 Alcohol
*Key terms; ethanol, fermentation, depressant, intoxication
*Factors that influence alcohol use
* Alcohol and unsafe situations
*Short and Long term effects of alcohol use
*Drinking and driving consequences
*What is binge drinking and alcohol poisoning?
*Effects of alcohol on fetus
*Alcoholism; factors, stages, treatment
CH 23 Medicines and Drugs
*What are medicines and drugs?
*Consequences of drug use?
*Classifications of drugs
*How to live drug free
Ch 25 Sexually transmitted Infections/ HIV
*Why are STD’s and epidemic? What does that mean?
*What are high risk behaviors that increase chance of getting STD
*Consequences of STD’s
*Why abstain?
*know about HPV, Genital Warts, Chlamydia, Genital Herpes, Gonorrhea, Tichomoniasis, and syphilis
*what is HIV/ AIDS
*how does it affect body
*How is HIV transmitted, through what fluids
*Stages of HIV infection
*what tests used to detect HIV
Ch 28 First Aid and Safety
*How to respond to an emergency
*What is first aid and universal precautions?
*What are the different types of injuries and open wounds?
*How do you perform CPR?
*What is RICE?
*What are proper treatments for poisonings?