Healthy Lifestyle, Nutrition and Digestion

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Course Outline

  1. Wellness Dimensions and Quality of Life
  2. Behavior Change Process
  3. Nutrition Information and Research
  4. Nutrients and Energy
  5. Healthy Diet Principles
  6. Food Guide and Labels
  7. Digestive System Organization
  8. Digestion and Nutrient Absorption
  9. Digestive Disorders and Food Reactions
  10. Diabetes and Blood Glucose

1. Wellness Dimensions and Quality of Life

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Health: is used broadly to include environmental health and population health, although historically it referred to the absence of physical disease.

  • Physical fitness: the ability to perform moderate to vigorous physical activity without undue fatigue.

  • Wellness: not merely the absence of disease or infirmity but a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being involving interdependent physical, environmental, social, psychological, intellectual and spiritual factors.

  • The six dimensions are:

    • Physical
    • Social
    • Intellectual
    • Emotional
    • Spiritual
    • Environmental
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1. Which description best defines wellness?

2. Which sequence correctly represents the stages of behavior change?

3. After analyzing experimental data, which step comes next in the scientific method?

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How was health historically defined?

As the absence of physical disease.

What does physical fitness enable without undue fatigue?

Performing moderate to vigorous physical activity.

What factors does wellness involve beyond absence of disease?

Physical, environmental, social, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual factors.

Which six dimensions make up wellness?

Physical, social, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and environmental.

Name one characteristic of high quality of life.

Optimism.

Name one characteristic of low quality of life.

Dependence.

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