Health Class Review Terms
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- Negotiating during conflict resolution
- select a time and place suited to working out problems, work together toward a solution, keep an open mind, be flexible, take responsibility for your role in the conflict, give the other person an "out"
- Effective way to control weight
- Target your appropriate weight, set realistic goals, personalize your plan, put your goal and plan in writing, evaluate your progress
- Effective ways to gain weight
- increase your calorie intake, eat often and take second helpings, eat nutritious snacks, build muscle
- Healthful way to lose weight
- Eat 1700 to 1800 calories daily to meet your body's energy needs, include your favorites in moderation, eat a variety of low calorie, nutrient-dense foods, drink plenty of water
- Fad diets
- limit food variety, costly, fail to provide the body with nutrients it needs for health and growth, weight loss usually regained
- Recommended caloric intake influenced by
- gender, age, height, body frame, growth rate, metabolic rate, activity level
- Muscle Strains
- RICE- Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation
- Bone breaks
- splint or immobilize the affected area
- Sexual Harassment
- is uninvited and unwelcome sexual conduct directed at another person. Forms of harassment are: words, jokes, gestures, or touching of a sexual nature. Can cause embarassment, emotional pain, and discomfort for the victim.
- Flu
- Disease caused by a virus, antibiotics do not work against viruses
- Vaccination
- aid the body's defenses
- Live-virus Vaccines
- Made from pathogens grown under special lab conditions to make them lose most of their disease- causing properties (ie mumps, measles, chicken pox)
- Killed-virus vaccines
- use inactive pathogens (ie flu shots, polio vaccine, hepatitis A, rabies)
- Toxoids
- inactive toxins from pathogens, ie tetanus and diptheria
- New and second generation vaccines
- being developed using new technologies, ie hepatitis B
- Cancer
- uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells
- Severe stress may lead to
- headache, asthma, high blood pressure, weakened immune system
- Warning signs for Heart Attack
- pressure, fullness, squeezing, or aching in the chest area, discomfort spreading to the arms, neck, jaw, upper abdomen, and back, chest discomfort with shortness of breath, lightheadedness, sweating, nausea, and vomiting
- Contraceptive foams, creams, jellies, suppositories should be
- placed at the opening of the vagina
- Hormonal contraceptives work by
- preventing the release of the egg into the fallopian tube to begin menstruation
- Oral contraception taken while smoking
- Increase the female's risk of heart disease
- Lunelle and Depo Provera are used
- as a form of contraception to release the risk of pregnancy