KPER 1200 TEST #1 ( with questions & 100% verified correct answers)What are the 4 reasons to study physical activity? - ✔✔1) because humans have
evolved to be physically active
2) because our environment no longer fulf
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KPER 1200 TEST #1 ( with questions & 100% verified correct answers)What are the 4 reasons to study physical activity? - ✔✔1) because humans have
evolved to be physically active
2) because our environment no longer fulfills our needs for physical activity
3) because the leading causes of death and disease is due to our Physical activity's
level
4) because more than just our health is impacted by physical activity
What is the epidemiological transition? - ✔✔documents what causes death in each
stage of the Demographic transition
4 stages of epidemiologic transition - ✔✔Stage 1: Pestilence and Famine
Stage 2: Receding Pandemics
Stage 3: Degenerative and man- made Diseases
Stage 4: Delayed Degenerative Diseases
STAGE 1: Pestilence and Famine - ✔✔- large mortality rate and low life expectancy
- infectious disease and famine
STAGE 2: Receding Pandemics - ✔✔- improvements in public health and sanitization
which led to a decrease in infectious disease
STAGE 3: Degenerative and Man-Made Diseases - ✔✔- life expectancy increased, but
diseases of lifestyle (cancer, cardiovascular disease) increased
STAGE 4: Degenerative Disease - ✔✔- diseases of lifestyle still prevalent but treatment
improves
Physical Activity (Definition) - ✔✔Any bodily movement produced by the contraction of
skeletal muscles that results in a increase in metabolic rate over resting energy
expenditure
Physical Fitness (Definition) - ✔✔An individual having necessary characteristics to
perform a given task
Two Types of Physical Fitness - ✔✔Performance related and Health related
Early Conceptualizations of Health - ✔✔idea of holistic health, homeostasis
Early Western Culture (Biomedical Model) - ✔✔focused on the ill and physical , rather
than increasing overall health
1900's inclusion of mental health
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