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What influences people's eating habits according to the text?
What influences people's eating habits according to the text?
What type of eating habit involves consuming food in response to emotions rather than hunger?
What type of eating habit involves consuming food in response to emotions rather than hunger?
What is required by an athlete before heavy training according to the text?
What is required by an athlete before heavy training according to the text?
What does distracted eating involve according to the text?
What does distracted eating involve according to the text?
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What is considered a risk factor for developing a condition or disease according to the text?
What is considered a risk factor for developing a condition or disease according to the text?
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What does the FITT principle stand for?
What does the FITT principle stand for?
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Which test assesses the flexibility of the body?
Which test assesses the flexibility of the body?
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How can Muscular Endurance be tested?
How can Muscular Endurance be tested?
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What does Muscular Strength measure?
What does Muscular Strength measure?
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What is Body Composition primarily concerned with?
What is Body Composition primarily concerned with?
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Study Notes
Eating Habits
- Eating habits involve an individual's choices and decisions regarding food, including why and with whom they eat, and how they obtain, store, use, and discard food.
- Various factors influence people's eating habits, including individual, social, cultural, religious, economic, environmental, and political factors.
Types of Eating Habits
- Fueling for performance: consuming the right kind of food to provide proper fuel for energy requirements, especially before heavy training or athletic activities.
- Emotional eating: consuming a large amount of food in response to emotions instead of hunger.
- Social eating: indulging in food to be sociable and not offend others, even when not hungry.
- Distracted eating: eating while watching TV or recreational events, which can lead to health risks due to distraction and overeating.
Health and Risk Factors
- Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease or infirmity.
- Risk factors are things in life that increase the chances of developing a condition or disease.
- Types of risk factors include:
- Behavioral: related to individual actions and choices.
- Physiological: related to an individual's body or biology.
- Demographic: related to the overall population.
- Environmental: cover a wide range of social, economic, cultural, political, physical, chemical, and biological factors.
- Genetic: based on an individual's genes and more prevalent in certain populations or subgroups.
FITT Principle
- Frequency: refers to how often you exercise.
- Intensity: refers to how hard you exercise.
- Time: refers to how long you exercise.
- Type: refers to what kind of exercise you do.
Health Related Fitness Components
- Cardiovascular Endurance: the ability of the heart, blood vessels, and lungs to supply oxygen to the muscles.
- Muscular Endurance: the ability of muscles to work efficiently over a longer period of time.
- Muscular Strength: the ability of muscles to exert a maximum amount of force in a single effort.
- Flexibility: the ability of a joint to move through a full range of motion.
- Body Composition: the percentage of body weight that is fat aside from muscle, bones, and other body tissues.
Fitness Tests
- Cardiovascular Endurance: can be tested by completing the 1.5-mile run, step test, PACER, 12-minute cycle, or the 12-minute swim.
- Muscular Endurance: can be tested by performing the one-minute sit-up test or push-up test.
- Muscular Strength: can be tested by the maximum bench press and maximum leg press.
- Flexibility: can be evaluated with a sit and reach test, arm and shoulder flexibility test, yoga and prone trunk test.
- Body Composition: can be estimated by four different testing protocols, including skinfold measurements.
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Description
Explore the concept of eating habits and the various factors that influence an individual's food choices including social, cultural, economic, and environmental aspects. Learn about different types of eating habits such as fueling for performance before heavy training.
