| A | B |
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| Health | the state of total physical, mental and social well-being |
| wellness | an overall state of well-being or total health |
| self-esteem | the confidence and worth that you fell about yourself |
| goal | soming you aim for that takes planning and work |
| decision | the act of making a choice or coming to a solution |
| risk | a behavior with an element of danger that may cause injury or harm |
| consequence | the result of an action |
| mental health | generally accepting and liking oneself and adapting to and coping with the emotions, challenges and changes that are part of every human being's life |
| feedback | messages from others that tell you how they fell about you |
| anxiety disorder | disorders in which real or imagined fears prevent a person from enjoying life |
| affective disorders | when mood swings interfere with everyday living |
| personality disorders | no apparent, distinctive signs; continues to function normally; may respong inappropriately in certain situations |
| stress | the body and mind's reactions to everyday demans |
| distress | negative stress |
| eutress | postive stress |
| stressor | any stimulus that produces a stress response |
| fatigue | tired feeling that lowers your level of activity |
| physical fatigue | fatigue of the body in general |
| Pathological fatigue | brough on by the overworking of the body's defenses for fighting disease |
| Psychological fatigue | too much metal stress |
| platonic relationship | one which there is affection but not romance |
| peer pressure | the control and influence people your age may have over you |
| manipulation | an indirect and often sneaky or dishonest means of trying to control another's attitudes or behavior |
| prejudice | a neg. feeling toward someone or something that is based not on experience but on sterotypes |
| stereotype | an exaggerated and oversimplified belief about an entire grou such as an ethnic group, a religios group or a certain sex |
| communication | a process through which we send messages to and receive messages from one another |
| nutrients | substances in food that the body needs to function properly such as in growing, repairing itself and having a supply of energy |
| nutrition | pure sci: looks at how the body uses nutrients Social sci: looks at the relationship between food and human behavior and the environment, or how and why people eat |
| enriched | nutrients lost in processing are added back |
| fortification | adds nutrients not naturally present |
| empty-calorie foods | foods that mainly have fats or sugars, no real nutrients |
| overweight | weighing more that 10 percent over the standard weight for height |
| obesity | excess body fat or adipose tissure |
| underweight | 10 percent or more below normal weight |
| nicotine | the addictive drug in cigarrettes |
| stimulant | a drug that ingreases the action of the central nervous system, the heart and other organs |
| tar | a thick, sticky, dark fluid produced when tobacco burns |
| carbon minoxide | a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas in cigarette smok that passes throught he lungs into the blood |
| leukoplakia | thickened, white, leathery-appearing spots on the inside of a smokeless tobacco user's mouth |
| tolerance | reg. use of alcohol, making it necessary to drink more and more in order to produce the same effects |
| dependence | physiologically dependent on alchol |
| fetal alcohol syndrom | when pregnant females drink heavily causing birth defects in the babies born to them |
| alcoholism | addiction to alcohol; physical and psychological dependence on alcohol |
| drug | dangerous and illegal substances including alcohol and tobacco |
| tolerance | when your body adjusts to the effectsof the drug |
| withdrawel | symptoms that occur when a person stops using a drug to which he or she is physiologically dependent |
| addiction | a physiologica or psychological dependence on a drug |
| psychoactive drugs | affect the central nervous system and alter normal functioning of the brain, resulting in mental or behavioral changes (ex. stimulants, depressants, narcotics, and hallucinoges) |
| addiction | physiological or pyschologica dependence on a substance or activity |
| cell | basic unit or structure of all iving things |
| fertilization | the union of cells |
| zygote | when the ovum is fertilized |
| heredity | passing of characteristice from parents to offspring |
| gonorrhea | disease caused by bacteria that live in warm, moist areas of the body, primarily in the lining of the urethre of the male and in the cervix of ther female |
| chancre | a reddish sore at the place where the pathogen enters the body, usually on the genitals |
