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Concept Statement
Good health, wellness, fitness and healthy lifestyles are important for all people.
Concept Objectives
After completing this concept the student should be able to:
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Define physical fitness, wellness, exercise, and health.
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Define each of the components of physical fitness.
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Define each of the dimensions of wellness.
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Explain the purpose and significance of the Healthy People 2010 goals for the nation.
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Explain the purpose and significance of the Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity
and Health.
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Distinguish between a long life and a long healthy life.
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Distinguish between infectious and chronic diseases and their current impact on society.
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Distinguish between disease treatment, disease prevention and health promotion.
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Explain the importance of healthy lifestyles to good health and wellness.
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Explain the importance of regular exercise to good fitness.
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Assess personal wellness. (Lab)
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Assess personal fitness with simple estimations. (Lab)
Discussion Questions:
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Concept 1 - Outline
Concept Outline
National Health Goals
Health and Wellness
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Wellness is a useful term that may be used by the uninformed as well as experts.
Physical Fitness
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The skill-related components of physical fitness are associated more with performance than
good health.
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A Model for Achieving and Maintaining Lifelong Health, Wellness, and Fitness
Many factors are important in developing lifetime health, wellness, and fitness, and some are more in your
control than others.
Healthy Lifestyles
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Lifestyle change, more than any other factor, is considered to be the best way to prevent
illness and early death in our society.
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The major causes of early death have shifted from infectious diseases to chronic lifestylerelated conditions.
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Healthy lifestyles are critical to wellness.
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Regular physical activity, sound nutrition, and stress management are considered to be
priority healthy lifestyles.
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The HELP philosophy can provide a basis for making healthy lifestyle change possible.
A personal philosophy that emphasizes health can lead to behaviors that promote it.
Everyone can benefit from healthy lifestyles.
Healthy behaviors are most effective when practiced for a lifetime.
Healthy lifestyles must be adopted based on personal needs.
Self-assessments of lifestyles will help you determine areas in which you may need changes
to promote optimal health, wellness, and fitness.
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Initial self-assessments of wellness and fitness will provide information for self-comparison.
Web Resources
Web Podcasts (Selected Websites)
Suggested Readings
In The News
Concept 1 - Terms
Bone Integrity
Soundness of the bones associated with high density and absence of symptoms of
deterioration.
Exercise
Exercise is defined as physical activity done for the purpose of getting physically fit.
Health
Health is optimal well-being that contributes to quality of life. It is more than freedom
from disease and illness, though freedom from disease is important to good health.
Optimal health includes high-level mental, social, emotional, spiritual, and physical
wellness within the limits of ones heredity and personal abilities.
Healthy Days
A self-rating of the number of days (per week or month) a person considers himself or
herself to be in good or better than good health.
Hypokinetic Diseases or Condition
Hypo means under or too little, and kinetic means movement or activity. Thus,
hypokinetic means too little activity. A hypokinetic disease or condition is one
associated with lack of physical activity or too little regular exercise. Examples of such
conditions include heart disease, low back pain, adult-onset diabetes, and obesity.
Illness
The ill feeling and/or symptoms associated with a disease or circumstances that upset
homeostasis.
Lifestyles
Lifestyles are patterns of behavior or ways an individual typically lives.
Medical Model
The focus of the health care system on treating illness with medicine, with little
emphasis on prevention or wellness promotion.
Metabolic Fitness
Metabolic fitness is a positive state of the physiological systems commonly associated
with reduced risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Metabolic
fitness is evidenced by healthy blood fat (lipid) profiles, healthy blood pressure, healthy
blood sugar and insulin levels, and other non-performance measures.
Physical Activity
Generally considered to be a broad term used to describe all forms of large muscle
movements including sports, dance, games, work, lifestyle activities, and exercise for
fitness. In this book, exercise and physical activity will often be used interchangeably to
make reading less repetitive and more interesting.
Physical Fitness
The bodys ability to function efficiently and effectively. It consists of health-related
physical fitness and skill-related physical fitness, which have at least eleven
components, each of which contributes to total quality of life. Physical fitness also
includes metabolic fitness and bone integrity. Physical fitness is associated with a
persons ability to work effectively, enjoy leisure time, be healthy, resist hypokinetic
diseases, and meet emergency situations. It is related to, but different from health,
wellness, and the psychological, sociological, emotional, and spiritual components of
fitness. Although the development of physical fitness is the result of many things,
optimal physical fitness is not possible without regular exercise.
Quality of Life
A term used to describe wellness. An individual with quality of life can enjoyably do the
activities of life with little or no limitation and can function independently. Individual
quality of life requires a pleasant and supportive community.
Wellness
The integration of many different components (social, emotional, mental, spiritual, and
physical) that expands ones potential to live (quality of life) and work effectively and
to make a significant contribution to society. Wellness reflects how one feels (a sense of
well-being) about life as well as ones ability to function effectively. Wellness, as
opposed to illness (a negative), is sometimes described as the positive component of
good health.
World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO is the United Nations agency for health and has 192 member countries. Its principal
goal is the attainment of the highest possible level of health for all people. WHO has been
instrumental in making health policy and in implementing health programs worldwide since
its inception in 1948.
Healthfinder is a service of the National Health Information Center and the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. The focus is on providing the best and latest information on consumer health
issues. This site provides excellent resources on health information.
Healthier United States - http://www.healthierus.gov/
Healthier US is a service of the National Health Information Center and the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. The focus is on providing the best and latest information on consumer health
issues. This site provides excellent resources on health information.
Healthy People 2010 - www.health.gov/healthypeople
This site documents the U.S. goals and objectives for the year 2010 in terms of public health. The goals
provide researchers and professionals with targets for their health promotion efforts. There is also a lot of
valuable information for consumers. Click on the tab labeled being a healthy person or the tab on health
information.
Healthy People 2010 Mid Course Review - http://www.healthypeople.gov/Data/midcourse/default.asp
This site documents the achievement towards the U.S. goals and objectives for the year 2010 in terms of
public health half way through the decade.
Institute of Medicine www.iom.edu
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Publications
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publicat.htm
The National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) is a division of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mission of the NCCDPHP is to prevent death and
disability from chronic diseases, to promote maternal, infant, and adolescent health and to promote
healthy personal behaviors.
National Center for Health Statistics www.cdc.gov/nchs
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) provides access to reports and summary statistics for
almost any health related variable or measure tracked by the United States Public Health Service and the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
National Institute of Health
www.nih.gov
Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports www.fitness.gov
The Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports provides information and suggestions to adapting
a physical activity program. It also offers advice for healthy eating.
World Health Organization www.who.int
The World Health Organization serves as an international body that acts to track and understand
international trends and patterns in health and disease.
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