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What are three major benefits to a healthy lifestyle?
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You live longer, delay the risk of disability, and disability is compressed into fewer years.
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What is sedentary Death Syndrome?
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Inactivity alone results in a constellation of problems and conditions that eventually lead to premature death.
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What are the sedentary death syndrome related conditions? (11)
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High triglycerides, high blood cholesterol, high blood glucose, type 2 diabetes, HTN, MI, obesity, chronic back pain, stroke, falls resulting in hip fractures, vertebra/femoral fractures.
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Define Physical Activity.
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Body movement produced by muscle action that increases energy expenditure.
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Define exercise.
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Planned, structured, repetetive and purposeful physical activity.
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Define physical fitness.
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Attributes related to how well one performs physical activity.
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Define health.
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Physical, mental and social well-being, not just the absence of disease.
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Define longevity.
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Length of life.
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What are the components of health-related physical fitness? (4)
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Cardiovascular fitness, flexibility of the lower back, hamstrings and shoulder/wrist, abdominal strength and endurance, body composition.
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What are the goals of "Healthy People 2010"?
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Increase quality and quantity of life, and eliminate health disparities.
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Does strength loss begin later in women or men?
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Women
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Between what ages is strength the greatest?
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20-40.
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Which declines faster; power or strength?
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Power.
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Which declines sooner and faster; eccentric or concentric strength?
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Concentric Strength.
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Which deteriorates faster; arm or leg strength?
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Leg.
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