U09 Psych 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11.1: Passive Smoking, Binge Eating, Cold Turkey
1 Jan 2017
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Well-being - a positive state that includes striving for optimal health and life satisfaction: to achieve optimal health, people need to actively participate in health-enhancing behaviors. Social context, biology, and behavior combine to affect health. An individual"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are central to understanding and improving health. Before the twentieth century, most people died from infections and from diseases transmitted person to person; there"s been a dramatic shift since then. Developed nation"s causes of death are mostly partly due to outcome of lifestyle racial and ethnic groups have large disparities in health: african americans continue to have a lower life expectancy than white. Americans: reasons include genetic variation, access to affordable health care, and cultural factors dietary and exercise habits. Obesity and maladaptive eating habits have many health consequences. Heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, and certain cancers.
