Assess Your Healthy Lifestyle Knowledge

Overview of Healthy Lifestyle Assessment and Practices

Healthy Lifestyle:

• Promotes and protects health and well-being
• Includes healthy diet and nutrition, regular physical activity, avoidance of substances that can be abused, stress management, safe sex, and responsible parenthood

Assessment of Physical Activity:

• Includes physical fitness, activity level, problems with activity tolerance, physical exercise, and factors affecting physical activity
• Measures usual activities, ability to perform ADLs, activities that cause fatigue or shortness of breath, regularity, frequency, and duration

Physical Fitness Components:

• Includes cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition
• Measures the ability of the heart, BV, and lungs to distribute nutrients and oxygen, muscle ability to work for extended periods, use of muscles throughout ROM, and amount of body fat compared to lean tissues

Nutritional Practices:

• Uses ABCD approach, anthropometric measurements, biochemical data, clinical signs of nutritional status, and dietary history
• Measures fat through skinfold measurements, skeletal muscle mass through mid-upper arm circumference, and weight through body mass index
• Reviews laboratory results that measure metabolites of particular nutrients
• Looks for clinical signs of nutritional status, such as pallor, pitting edema, goiter, and Bitot's spots
• Assesses usual eating patterns and habits, food preferences and restrictions, daily fluid intake, use of supplements, and dietary problems and concerns

Rest and Sleep:

• Sleep is a cyclical physiological process that contributes to physiological and psychological restoration and conserves energy
• Circadian rhythm is a 24-hour, day-night cycle that influences biological and behavioral functions
• Sleep regulation involves a sequence of physiological states maintained by the CNS, associated with changes in the PNS, endocrine, CV, respiratory, and muscular system
• Phases of normal sleep include stage 1 (lightest level), stage 2 (period of sound sleep), stage 3 (initial stages of sleep), stage 4 (deepest stage of sleep), and REM sleep (autonomic response with rapidly moving eyes)
• Sleep disorders include dyssomnia, intrinsic sleep disorders, extrinsic sleep disorders, and circadian rhythm sleep disorders