Chapter 1: Concepts of Health and Wellness

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Chapter 1 Concepts of Health and Wellness
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Power of Choice

• Most of todays health problems are lifestyle
  related and preventable
• Leads to hypokinetic diseases
• Result of sedentary lifestyle
• Leading causes of death CV disease, cancer, and
  stroke

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Exercise is Power

• We need to be a health prevention society
• We choose to be a health care society
• No single drug that can positively affect the
  human body and its health status the way regular
  exercise can

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Hypokinetic Diseases

• Coronary Artery Disease
• Hypertension
• Obesity
• Osteoporosis
• Maturity Onset Diabetes
• Ulcers
• Stress
• Low Back Pain

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What Is Health?

• The absence of disease
• Health is a state of complete physical,
  emotional, and social health, not merely the
  freedom from disease and illness
• Health is a personal value
• Health is measurable
• State of complete health, difficult, if not
  impossible to attain.

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Components of Health

• Physical Health
• Mental Health
• Social Health
• Intellectual Health
• Spiritual Health
• Balance these and you will have a good state of
  health

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Physical Health

• Based on biological integrity of the body
• Physiological and structural characteristics that
  enable ADLs
• Susceptibility to disease
• Body weight
• Visual acuity
• Strength
• Coordination
• Endurance
• Recovery

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Mental Health

• Deal positively with change
• Handle stresses well
• Requires exploration of thoughts and feelings
• Self-esteem, self-acceptance, self-confidence,
  self-control, and self-actualization

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Social Health

• Interpersonal relationships
• Good communication skills
• Network of caring people
• Avoid negative situations

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Intellectual Health

• Ability to absorb, understand, and utilize
  information
• Ability to think

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Spiritual Health

• Belief in a higher power
• Includes altruistic behaviors
• Denotes love, peace, joy (notice absence of anger
  and tearing down others)
• Scientific studies show that those with a
  spiritual component live longer, healthier,
  happier lives

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Definition of Wellness

• A process that will lead to optimal functioning
• Wellness behaviors are observable
• Health is a status
• Wellness is a process
• Involves a zest for living

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Why Physical Fitness?

• 40 Americans exercise regularly??
• Out of shape and overweight
• 27 do not exercise at all
• 61 are overweight (100 million )

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Economic Cost of Hypokinetic Disease

• More money is spent annually treating heart
  disease than any other illness.
• 275 billion dollars spent in 1997
• 37 million per hour
• 617,000 per minute

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Hypokinetic Diseases Pose a Real Threat To Our
Nation

• A result of lifestyle choices.
• Lifestyle choices account for 52 of the deaths
  in our nation
• Lifestyle choices have the greatest effect on the
  health of our nation.

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Top Three Causes of Death Annually

• Tobacco
• 400,000
• Physical Inactivity/Diet
• 300,000
• Alcohol
• 100,000

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US Surgeon Generals Report

• Regular moderate physical activity provides
  substantial benefits in health and well-being for
  the vast majority preventing premature death,
  unnecessary illness, and disability. Lack of
  regular physical activity is a serious threat to
  the health of our nation.

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Physical Fitness

• The capacity to adapt and respond favorably to
  physical effort.
• The ability to engage in daily living activities
  without undue fatigue.
• Activity must be regular to maintain fitness
  levels
• Physical activity vs. physical exercise

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Benefits of Being Physically Fit

• Lowers risk of chronic diseases and illness (CAD,
  cancer, strokes)
• Decreases mortality rate from chronic diseases
• Improves QUALITY of life
• Improves posture and appearance
• Regulates and improves all body functions
• Hypertrophy (size, strength, power)

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Benefits Contd

• Develops greater lean body mass
• Increases size and strength of the heart
• Increases vascular system
• Increases blood volume
• Lowers resting heart rate
• Lowers blood pressure
• Helps prevent Type II Diabetes

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Benefits Contd

• Helps sleeping patterns
• Prevents chronic back pain
• Reduces anxiety / stress
• Extends LONGEVITY
• Reverses the aging process
• Chronological age vs. functional age
• Motivates positive lifestyle changes
• Helps control weight

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Economic Benefits of Being Physically Fit

• Lower medical costs (fewer insurance claims)
• Increased job productivity
• Decreased absenteeism , depression, and job
  turnover
• Prevention of disability

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If exercise could be packaged into a pill, it
would be the most widely prescribed drug in the
history of mankind.
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Medical History

• Helps identify potential problems
• Should be incorporated with a thorough physical
  exam
• Lab 1E
• Self-assessment Lab 1D

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Consents

• Lab 1A Participate in physical activity
• Lab 1B Participate in fitness evaluations