Health & Physical Education Glossary 2009



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Abdomen: The belly, that part of the body that contains all of the structures between the chest and the pelvis. The abdomen is separated anatomically from the chest by the diaphragm, the powerful muscle spanning the body cavity below the lungs.

Abuse: The physical, emotional or mental mistreatment of one person by another.

Accident: Something that is not supposed to happen.

Acne: Skin disorder in which clogged pores become inflamed, or swollen.

Active: Being in physical motion.

Acute: Extremely great or serious; crucial; critical.

Ad: A notice that tells people about a product.

Adequate: The minimum amount for a thing to work properly.

Adolescence: The period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to maturity.

Adolescent sexual activity: People under the age of 18 having sexual experiences.

Adulthood: Having attained full size and strength; grown up; mature.

Adoption: Taking a child of other parents into a family.

Advertising: A form of selling products and services.

Aerobic: Means "requiring air", where "air" usually means oxygen.

Affection: Being nice to someone who you like; holding hands, kissing, sitting close to.

Age: The time that a person or a thing has existed since birth or beginning.

Aggressive: involves directly standing up for personal rights and expressing thoughts, feelings, and beliefs in a way, which is emotionally honest, but usually inappropriate, and in violation of the rights of others.

Air pollution: Harmful particles and gases in the air.

Alcohol: A drug found in some drinks that slows down the mind and body.

Alcoholism: A disease in which a person is addicted to alcohol.

Allergy: A reaction of your immune system to something that does not bother most other people.

Amino acids: One of the 20 building blocks of protein.

Anabolic steroids: a class of natural and synthetic steroid hormones that promote cell growth and division, resulting in growth of muscle tissue and sometimes bone size and strength.

Anaerobic: A technical word which literally means without air.

Anger: The feeling of being irritated.

Ankle: The joint that connects the foot and the leg; the area of the leg between the foot and calf.

Antagonistic effects: The negative effect that one chemical or family of chemicals has on other chemicals.

Antibiotic: A drug used to kill or slow the growth of germs that cause disease.

Antibody: A substance in blood that helps fight pathogens.

Apologize: Say you are sorry.

Appeal: A statement used to get consumers to buy a product or service.

Artery: A vessel that carries blood high in oxygen content away from the heart to the farthest reaches of the body.

Assertiveness skills: 1) Passive - Definition: Involves violating your own rights by failing to express honest feelings, thoughts, and beliefs and consequently allowing others to also violate your rights: or expressing your thoughts and feelings in such an apologetic, timid manner that others can easily disregard them.

Assertive: Involves standing up for personal rights and expressing thoughts, feelings and beliefs in direct, honest, and appropriate ways which do not violate another person’s rights.

Asthma: A condition in which air passages become narrow.

Attitude: The way you think, act, or feel.

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Bacteria: A one-celled germ. The smallest living microbes that can reproduce on their own.

Balance: A steady state on a narrow base.

Balance Diet: A daily eating plan that includes the correct amounts of food from the five food groups.

Ball: An object, usually round in shape and often hollow and flexible, used in many games and sports in which it is thrown, struck, or kicked.

Behavior: Response; the way in which a person, organism, or group responds to a specific set of conditions.

Benefits: Advantage; something that has a good effect or promotes well-being.

Binging: Is the consumption of abnormally large amounts of food in a very short period of time.

Bleeding: Losing blood; loss of blood from the body as a result of illness or injury.

Blog: To write entries in, add material to, or maintain a web log.

Blood borne pathogens: Pathogenic microorganisms that are present in human blood and cause disease in humans.

Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC): The amount of alcohol on a person’s blood.

Blood Pressure: The force of blood against artery walls.

Body: The complete material structure or physical form of a human being or animal.

Body Composition: The proportion of fat and fat-free mass in the body.

Body Image: The way you feel about how your body looks.

Body Language: The movements or gestures people make when communicating with another person.

Body Systems: A group of organs that work together to do a certain job.

Body Weight: The weight of a person's body.

Bonding: A process in which two people develop feelings of closeness for one another.

Bone: The main material that forms a vertebrate skeleton, principally collagen fiber and calcium phosphate.

Bone Marrow: Soft tissue in the center of long bones, such as those in your arms and legs.

Bored: Feeling restless and not knowing what to do.

Bounce: To move away quickly after hitting a surface, or throw something so that it hits a surface and moves away.

Brain: An organ that receives and sends messages to all parts of your body.

Brain Damage: Injury to the brain that is caused by various conditions, such as head trauma, inadequate oxygen supply, infection, or intracranial hemorrhage, and that may be associated with a behavioral or functional abnormality.

Breast: Either of two soft rounded organs on each side of the chest in women and men. In women the organs are more prominent and produce milk after childbirth.

Budget: A plan for spending and saving money.

Bulimics: Use fasting (not eating), excessive exercise, vomiting, or laxatives to purge themselves of food. Bulimia is partly caused by excessive concern about weight control and self-image. It is considered to be a psychiatric (mental) disorder.

Bully: A person who threatens and frightens you.

Bullying: The process of intimidating or mistreating somebody weaker or in a more vulnerable situation.

Bulimia Nervosa: A serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorder that affects primarily young women. Bulimics (people who have bulimia) go through cycles of binging and purging.

Burns: Injuries to tissues caused by heat, friction, electricity, radiation, or chemicals.

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Calorie: A unit used to measure the energy produced by food in the body.

Cancer: A disease in which cells grow in ways that are not normal.

Capillaries: Tiny blood vessels that connect the veins and arteries to the body’s cells.

Carbohydrate: A nutrient that supplies the main source of energy for your body.

Carbon Monoxide: A colorless, odorless, poisonous gas.

Carcinogens: Substances that cause cancer.

Cardiac Muscles: Muscles found in the walls of your heart.

Cardiovascular: The circulatory system comprising the heart and blood vessels which carries nutrients and oxygen to the tissues of the body and removes carbon dioxide and other wastes from them.

Cardiovascular Disease: A disease of the heart and blood vessels.

Car: A motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.

Career: The work that a person prepares for and does throughout life.

Cartilage: Strong flexible tissue that provides cushioning at the joints.

Cavity: A hole in a tooth.

Change: To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another.

Character Development: Moral and ethical values of a person, that change over time.

Character Traits: A quality that demonstrates how a person thinks, feels, and acts.

Checkup: A medical exam to make sure you are healthy.

Childbirth: Includes both labor (the process of birth) and delivery (the birth itself); it refers to the entire process as an infant makes its way from the womb down the birth canal to the outside world.

Choking: Being unable to breathe because of a blocked air passage.

Chronic: Marked by long duration or frequent recurrence.

Circuit: A series of tournaments in which the same players regularly take part.

Circulation: The movement of blood throughout the body.

Classify: To arrange or organize according to class or category.

Clique: A group of people who keep others out of their group.

Cocaine: An illegal stimulant drug made from the leaves of the coca plant.

Code of Conduct: A set of rules to guide behavior and decisions in a specified situation.

Cold Medicines: Medicine intended to relieve the symptoms of the common cold.

Cold Turkey: Immediate, complete withdrawal from something on which one has become dependent, such as an addictive drug.

Commitment: Dedication to a cause or principle.

Communicable Disease: A disease that is transmitted through direct contact with an infected individual or indirectly through a vector; also called contagious disease.

Communication: The sharing of feelings, thoughts, or information.

Community: A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations.

Compete: To play to win.

Competitive: Inclined toward wanting to achieve more than others.

Complications: Something which makes a situation more difficult to deal with.

Conflict: A strong disagreement or fight.

Conserve: To protect something from being lost or to use it carefully.

Consumer: A person who judges information and buys and uses products and services.

Cooperative: Willing to work together.

Consequences: Something that follows as a result.

Contraception: Intentional prevention of conception or impregnation through the use of various devices, agents, drugs, sexual practices, or surgical procedures.

Cool-Down: Five to ten minutes of easy physical activity, done after exercising, that cools your muscles and gradually lets your heart rate return to normal.

Cooperative: Willing to work together.

CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation): A method of reviving someone who stops breathing and has no heartbeat, by mouth-to-mouth breathing and strong rhythmic pressing down on the chest.

Crisis: Critical event or point of decision which, if not handled in an appropriate and timely manner (or if not handled at all), may turn into a disaster or catastrophe.

Critical thinking skills: Skills that help you think quickly and decide what to do.

Culture: The collected beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.

Cumulative Risk: The addition of one risk factor to another, increasing the chance of harm or loss.

Cuticle: A nonliving band of outer skin.

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Dance: Move rhythmically to music: to move the feet and body rhythmically, usually in time to music.

Dandruff: Flaking of the outer layer of dead skin cells.

Danger: Liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril.

Date: An appointment to meet somebody for a social or business activity.

Death: The end of the life cycle.

Decibel: A measure of the loudness of a sound.

Decision: A choice that you make.

Defensive: Relating to the effort to prevent an opponent from gaining points in a game or athletic contest.

Dehydration: A condition caused by too much water loss.

Dental Plaque: A sticky film that coats teeth.

Dermis: The thicker inner layer of the skin.

Deodorant: Having the power of preventing, destroying, or masking undesired odors.

Dependency: The state of being psychologically or physiologically dependent on a drug after a prolonged period of use.

Depressant: A drug that slows down body functions.

Diabetes: A disease that prevents the body from using the sugars and starches in food for energy.

Diagnose diseases.

Diagnose health conditions.

Diaphragm: A large muscle at the bottom of the chest.

Diet: A controlled intake of food and drink designed for weight loss, for health or religious reasons, or to control or improve a medical condition.

Dietary Guidelines: Suggested goals to help you stay healthy.

Digestion: The process by which your body breaks down food into small nutrient particles.

Digestive System: The body system that breaks down food so that it can be used by the body.

Disease: A condition that keeps your body from working as it should.

Disease Control: Actions taken to control the spread of illness.

Disease Prevention: Actions taken to prevent illness before it starts.

Distress: Stress caused by negative events.

Divorce: A legal end to a marriage.

Dodge: To move quickly and suddenly to one side to avoid being caught or hit by somebody or something.

Drug: A substance that changes the structure or function of the body or mind.

Drug Abuse: The use of any drug in a way that is unhealthy or illegal.

Drug Free: Choosing not to abuse drugs.

Drug Misuse: Taking medicine in a way that is not intended.

Drug Rehabilitation: A process in which the person relearns how to live without the abused drug .

Dynamic: Pertaining to or characterized by energy or effective action; vigorously active or forceful; energetic.

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Ear Canal: Leads from your outer ear to your eardrum.

Eardrum: The thin tissue that is stretched like the top of a drum inside your ear.

Earthquake: A shaking or trembling of the ground caused by shifting of the Earth’s crust.

Eating disorders: A harmful way of eating because a person cannot cope with a situation.

Economics: The study of how the forces of supply and demand allocate scarce resources. Subdivided into microeconomics, which examines the behavior of firms, consumers and the role of government; and macroeconomics, which looks at inflation, unemployment, industrial production, and the role of government.

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Ecstasy: An illegal stimulant drug that can increase or decrease the actions of the body.

Effective: Producing result: causing a result, especially the desired or intended result.

Effectiveness: Degree to which objectives are achieved and the extent to which targeted problems are resolved.

Egg Cell: The female reproductive cell.

Emergency: A situation in which help is needed quickly.

Emergency Alert System: Lets people know when health-threatening weather may be in their area and when a person has disappeared.

Embryo: A human offspring in the early stages following conception up to the end of the eighth week, after which it is classified as a fetus.

Emotion: A feeling inside you, such as joy, love, or fear.

Emotional Abuse: Maltreatment which results in impaired psychological growth and development. It involves words, actions, and indifference. Abusers constantly reject, ignore, belittle, dominate, and criticize the victims. This form of abuse may occur with or without physical abuse, but there is often an overlap.

Empathy: The ability to identify and share another person’s feelings.

Emphysema: A disease that occurs when tiny air sacs in the lungs lose their elasticity.

Empty Calorie Food: A food that is low in vitamins and minerals but high in calories.

Endocrine System: A body system containing glands that regulate growth and other important activities.

Endurance: The ability to keep up a physical activity without becoming overly tired.

Energy: The ability to do work.

Engage: To occupy the attention or efforts of (a person or persons).

Entertainment: Something that interests or amuses you.

Environment: The sum total of your surroundings.

Environmental Conditions: The state of the environment.

Epidermis: the thinner outer layer of the skin.

Ethnic Food: A food eaten by people of a specific culture.

Equilibrium: Bodily balance: a physical state or sense of being able to maintain bodily balance.

Eustress: Stress caused by positive events.

Excretory System: Gets rid of some of the wastes your body produces and also maintains fluid balance.

Exercise: Planned, structure, repetitive physical activity that improves or maintains physical fitness.

Experience: Something that a person has done or seen.

External: For use on outside: suitable or designed for use only on the outside or surface of something, especially the body.

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Fallacies: An incorrect or misleading notion based on inaccurate facts or faulty reasoning.

Family: A group of people who are related in some way.

Family Guidelines: Rules set by parents or guardians that tell children how to act.

Farsightedness: Able to see far objects clearly but close objects look blurry.

Family Structures: Composed of members, relationships, roles, (who does what) rules, (how each member is "supposed to" act) communication, physical and psychological assets, and limitations.

Fast Food Restaurant: A place that serves food quickly.

Fats: Nutrients that provide energy.

Feeling: Something experienced physically or mentally: a perceived physical or mental sensation.

Fertilization: The joining of a female egg cell with a male reproductive cell.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS): A group of permanent physical and mental problems caused by alcohol use during pregnancy

Fetus: A developing, unborn baby from the eighth week until birth.

Fever: A body temperature that is higher than normal.

Fiber: Tough, stringy part of raw fruits, raw vegetables, whole wheat, and other whole grains.

Fire Escape Plan: A map of your home that shows different ways out of every room.

Fire Extinguisher: A device which releases chemicals that smother flames.

First Aid: The quick care given to a person who is injured or ill.

First Aid Kit: Supplies used to care for a person who is injured or ill.

First-Degree Burn: A burn in which only the outer part of the skin is burned and turns red.

Fitness: Good health or physical condition, especially as the result of exercise and proper nutrition.

FITT Principle: A method for safely increasing aspects of your workout without injuring yourself.

Flexibility: the ability to bend and move easily.

Flood: The overflow of water onto normally dry land.

Flow: Move freely from one place to another in large numbers or amounts in a steady unbroken stream.

Fluoride: A mineral that hardens tooth enamel.

Food Allergy: A reaction to a food that is caused by the immune system.

Food Borne Illness: A sickness caused by eating food or drinking beverages that contain harmful germs.

Food Group: Foods that contain many of the same types of nutrients.

Food Intolerance: A reaction of the body to a food or something within the food.

Food Label: A list of ingredients and nutrition facts.

Food Pyramid: A graphic representation of the structure of a food chain, depicted as a pyramid having a broad base formed by producers and tapering to a point formed by end consumers.

Food Borne: Carried or contracted by eating contaminated food.

Football: A game played by two teams of 11 players each on a rectangular, 100-yard-long field with goal lines and goal posts at either end, the object being to gain possession of the ball and advance it in running or passing plays across the opponent's goal line or kick it through the air between the opponent's goal posts.

Force: Force is a quantitative description of the interaction between two physical bodies, such as an object and its environment.

Fossil Fuel: Coal, oil, and natural gas.

Foster Child: A child who lives with a family without being related by birth or adoption.

Fraud: Deliberately trying to trick consumers into buying a product or service.

Friend: A person who likes and supports you.

Friendly Environment: One in which people respect one another.

Friendship: A special type of relationship between people who enjoy being together.

Friendly Environment: One in which people respect one another.

Frostbite: Freezing of the skin.

Fungi: Primitive single or many celled organisms that cannot make their own food.

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Galloping: A sliding step whereby the body is propelled through space in an uneven rhythm, so the same foot is always leading.

Games: An activity providing entertainment or amusement. A competitive activity or sport in which players contend with each other according to a set of rules.

Gender: The condition of being female or male.

Gender identification: Sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture.

Genetic predisposition: The tendency to suffer from certain genetic diseases–eg, Huntington's disease, or inherit certain skills–eg, musical talent.

Good health behaviors: actions or choices that promote a healthy lifestyle.

Good sportsmanship: Conduct and attitude considered as befitting participants in sports, especially fair play, courtesy, striving spirit, and grace in losing.

Group: An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together.

Gymnastic routine: A planned set of gymnastic skills performed in sequence.

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Hallucinogens: A substance that alters ones perceptions by causing hallucinations in one of the five senses or in ones mental processes.

Harassment: a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented.

Health: The overall condition of an person at a given time.

Health care products: Products designed for the purpose of caring for the body.

Health conditions: A health condition is a departure from a state of physical or mental well-being.

Health history: A current collection of organized information unique to an individual pertaining to ones health throughout their lifetime.

Health services: Programs, careers or institutions that promote health.

Health status: Ones current level of well being.

Heart disease: A structural or functional abnormality of the heart, or of the blood vessels supplying the heart, that impairs its normal functioning.

Herbs: Any of various often aromatic plants used especially in medicine or as seasoning.

Heredity: The genetic transmission of characteristics from parent to child.

High risk health behaviors: actions or decisions which present a high level of danger to ones health.

Hitting: To come into contact with forcefully; strike.

HIV/AIDS: Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; a disease which affects the bodies ability to fight and ward off infection.

Home: A place or dwelling where one lives.

Honesty: the act of being truthful.

Hopping: A loco motor movement where the individual moves by jumping lightly on one foot.

Hormones: chemical substances in the body that regulate the function and growth of cells and tissues.

Huffing: A method of drug use where the user inhales substances into the lungs, often resulting in permanent brain damage or death.

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Implement: An object used for a specific task or activity.

Impulse-control disorders: Impulse-control disorders are psychological disorders characterized by the repeated inability to refrain from performing a particular action that is harmful either to oneself or others.

Individual: separate and distinct from others of the same kind.

Influence: A power affecting a person, thing, or course of events, especially one that operates without any direct or apparent effort.

Inhalants: a broad range of drugs in the forms of gases, aerosols, or solvents which are breathed in and absorbed through the lungs.

Inherited: Traits or conditions that are passed down from parent to child.

Intensity: A part of the FIT principle, the amount of force or effort applied to an exercise or activity.

Internal: anything pertaining to organs or structures within the body.

Interpretative dance: a form of modern dance in which the dancer's movements depict an emotion or tell a story.

Interval: The amount of time between two specified instants, events, or states.

Intravenous drugs: Any drug which the user injects directly into the vein or artery.

Isometric: A form of exercise where a constant force is applied to an immovable object and the muscle length remains constant.

Isotonic: A form of exercise where the force applied to a muscles remains constant throughout the range of motion.

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Jumping: A movement form where both feet leave the ground at the same time.

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Kick: to strike an object with ones foot.

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Labor: the physical act of giving birth to a child.

Leadership: the act of leading.

Leaping: a locomotor movement where a person moves forward by jumping with both feet.

Legal: something that is permitted by law.

Life skills: knowledge or behaviors that are essential for becoming a productive member of a community.

Life support: A general term for a number of machines which keep terminally ill patients alive for a period of time.

Lifetime commitments: duties or responsibilities that are carried out throughout a lifetime.

Listening: To make an effort to hear something.

Liver disease: Any variety of diseases that affect the liver, usually caused by excessive, prolonged use of alcohol and other drugs.

Local health concerns: health issues that pertain to a small area or community.

Long term effects: consequences of an action that are long lasting and often permanent.

Love: a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.

Low risk behaviors: behaviors or actions which pose little risk to self or others.

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Managed Care: A health insurance plan that saves money by limiting people’s choice of doctors.

Marijuana: An illegal drug that contains harmful chemicals.

Marriage: Legal relationship between spouses: a legally recognized relationship, established by a civil or religious ceremony.

Mastery: Expert skill: expert knowledge or outstanding ability.

Mature: Acting or seeming like adult: showing the mental, emotional, or physical characteristics associated with a fully developed adult person.

Mediation: A process in which a responsible person helps settles a conflict.

Medical Checkup: A series of tests that measure your health status.

Medicine: A drug used to treat, prevent, or cure illness or injury.

Memories: things remembered from the past.

Menstruation: Blood, tissue, and the unfertilized egg flow out of the body.

Mental Diseases: Any disturbance of emotional equilibrium as manifested in maladaptive behavior and impaired functioning, caused by genetic, physical, chemical, biologic, psychological, or social and cultural factors.

Mentor: A responsible person who helps a younger person.

Microbe: a living thing that is too small to be seen without a microscope.

Mineral: Nutrient that helps your body’s chemical processes.

Minor: A person under the legal age for an action such as drinking alcohol.

Mistrust: Suspicion: suspicion about or lack of confidence in somebody or something.

Monitor: Computer display device: a video device that displays data or images generated by a computer or terminal; closed-circuit television set: a receiving device used in a closed-circuit television or video system.

Mood Disorder: A serious emotional problem where a person’s mood goes from one extreme to another.

Mood Swings: Rapid changes in emotions caused by hormones.

Motion: The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary.

Mouth guard: An appliance used to protect teeth from injury.

Movement: An act of changing location or position.

MSG: A substance used to flavor meats, seafood, and soups.

Mucus: A moist coating that lines your nose and throat.

Muscle: A type of tissue in the body made of strong fibers.

Muscle Endurance: the ability to use your muscles for a long time.

Muscle Strain: An over stretch of a muscle.

Muscle Strength: The ability of your muscles to lift, pull, kick, and throw.

Muscular System: the body system that helps you move and maintain posture.

Mutual Respect: The high regard two people have for each other.

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Narcotics: specific drugs made from opiates, used to relieve pain.

Naturally occurring substances: Drugs that can be made from plants.

Negative impact: when something affects you in a bad way.

Negative space: the areas that are not taken up by a body of part of the form.

Negotiation: the exchange of different ideas until a compromise can be made.

Nerve damage: affecting the bodies ability to send messages around the body.

Non communicable disease: A disease that is not transmitted from person to person.

Nutrition: the studying of how the chemicals in food are used by the body.

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Observation: watching what is going on.

Observer: a person who is watching what is going on.

Obstetrician: a doctor, who cares for pregnant woman and their developing babies, includes helping with birth.

Offensive: something that makes you uncomfortable when somebody else is doing it.

Opinions: person’s thoughts about something.

Organics: substances that can be found in plants that are used for drugs.

Outcomes: what is the end result of doing something.

Overdose: taking to much of something so the body reacts abnormally.

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Pain relief: ways of making pain go away.

Parenthood: taking responsibility for raising a child. The days, weeks, months, and years that go by as you raise your child: you are responsible for this young human being.

Parenting: giving guidance to a child as it grows up.

Participant: a person who is involved with what is going on.

Participation: being part of something.

Parties: when groups of people get together informally to have a good time.

Passive-Aggressive: Involves expressing your needs and feelings in an unclear and confusing manner.

Passive smoking: being a non smoker but breathing in smoke from somewhere.

Pediatrician: A doctor who takes care of children.

Peers: people your own age that you are with.

Peer Pressures: positive or negative influences to make you do something.

Perceived exertion: the amounts of work or exercise that it appears you have done.

Perceived risk: what you think is dangerous.

Performance: the ability to do something in an effective way.

Performance enhancing: a drug or exercise that will improve the persons ability.

Personal achievement: a persons’ doing something, usually better than before.

Personal adherence: what an individual sticks with.

Personal eating patterns: persons’ eating habits and tastes.

Personal fitness: keeping a individual in physical shape.

Personal health goals: what a person wants for their selves to stay healthy.

Personal hygiene products: items that make you look and smell better.

Personal inventory: a persons’ account of certain abilities.

Personal safety: a persons’ view of what is not safe.

Physical: using muscle to do something.

Physical abuse: picking on, hitting or beating someone to degrade them.

Physical activity: doing activities that you have to physically move to do.

Physical benefits: improvements in the way you and others see yourself.

Physical changes: when there is a noticeable change in muscles, dimensions, weight, or height.

Physical indicators: physical markers that show changes.

Physiological: mental effects on the persons psyche.

Playground balls: a type of ball that is more of a rubber, softer material.

Podcast: a recording that can be heard on the computer and recorded onto mp3 players.

Poisoning: getting a material into your body that is harmful to you.

Political: things that can be affected by opposing people talking it out.

Positive impact: changes that are for the better.

Positive self-talk: telling yourself that things are OK, will get better, game situations.

Possession: having control of something.

Post-natal: after birth.

Potential: the ability for something to happen.

Potential impact: the effect of something happening.

Power point: a software program on a computer that gives you a way to show information on a slideshow.

Pregnancy: the result of an egg cell and a sperm cell that join.

Pregnancy test: a way of finding out if you have conceived and are pregnant.

Prenatal: providing for the health of a pregnant female and the fetus.

Prescription medicine: medicine that a doctor prescribes for an individual.

Progression: a change that is normally what would happen next.

Puberty: the time that parts of you start changing into the physical characteristics of an adult.

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Range of motion: the ability to move your body parts as far as possible from center.

Reaction time: the amount of time between sensing something and your movement responding to it.

Recovery heart rate: after exercising, the amount of time it takes for your pulse to return to its normal rate.

Reflective: thinking about something, the ability of a object to refract light.

Refusal: being able to say no in a variety of situations.

Regular exercise: an exercise program that occurs on a regular basis.

Relationships: the way one thing is affected by another thing.

Relationships evolve: as a relationship is affected, the changes that occur from those occurrences.

Reliability: trusted to be there or work when needed.

Reliable source: a person, place or thing, that gives correct information.

Religious beliefs: a person’s belief in a religion and its dictates.

Requirements: things that make up the minimum for that thing.

Resources: objects that can be used for the additional information or supplies.

Respiratory diseases: breathing is affected by these afflictions.

Respect: when you can accept people as they are and not do high risk behavior.

Responses: to react to incoming stimuli.

Responsibilities: Activities that you need to accomplish.

Role models: a person who you appreciate and want to emulate.

Rolling: a movement that travels 360 degrees circumference over and over on a surface.

Rotation: the turning or spinning of an object.

Rules: information on how to play a game or to be safe.

Running: movement where your feet are alternating and you’re momentarily not touching the ground.

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Safe practice: a behavior where you do put yourself into danger.

School: a place where education is the prime goal.

Scurvy: a disease that occurs when there is not enough vitamin C in a person’s diet.

Second hand smoke: breathing smote from someone else’s cigarette.

Seeing: using your eyes to observe the environment.

Self examination: checking yourself out.

Sex: the gender of the person, a variety of actions based on physical intercourse.

Sexual abstinence: not performing sexual acts until married.

Sexual attraction: being attracted to somebody because of their physical attributes.

Sexual Harassment: being bothered by somebody who wants sexual contact.

Sexual risks: activities that increase the chances of disease or pregnancy.

Sexually active: a person who has started doing sexual activities.

Sexual orientation: Being attracted by a person of the same or opposite sex.

Sexually transmitted diseases: diseases that are passed by direct physical contact.

Shock: when the body doesn’t send enough blood to the body, can be life threatening.

Short- and long-term abuse: short term is quick while long term can be for years.

Short term: happening for only a few hours, days or weeks.

Short term effects: Something lasting only a few hours.

Side effects: An effect not expected from something.

Signs: indications that something is happening.

Situations: the result of what is happening at that time.

Skipping: A movement where you hop step as you move forward. Jumping over parts of an article.

Sniffing: Using your nose for; smelling, inhaling drugs, to keep your nose from running.

Social abuse: to be mean to somebody when with a group of people.

Sonograms: using ultra sound waves to see inside your body.

Softballs: a 9 inch circumference ball used to play softball.

Space: the area around an object that is empty.

Specific: something made exactly for a situation.

Spinning: going around and around and around and around and around and around.

Sports: activities that are played competitively.

Stages of dependency: the various stages that the human body goes through when becoming dependent on something.

State health procedures: rules and guidelines created by the state health department.

STDs: sexually transmitted diseases.

Steroids: chemicals taken to help the body work better.

Stimulants: drugs that make the body speed up.

Strategies: plans to use for dealing with various situations.

Strength coach: a person who helps you exercise.

Stress: the human body’s way of reacting to change.

Stroke: when the brain doesn’t get oxygen because of a broken or blocked blood vessel.

Substance abuse: using a substance in a wrong way.

Substitution: replacing one item with a different item.

Supplements: additional drugs or vitamins for the individual.

Support: Holding something up, giving approval.

Swerve: to change direction of movement

Symptoms: indicators that are visible that show a type of disease.

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Tai chi: is an internal Chinese martial art often practiced for health reasons.

Target heart rate: a desired range of heart rate reached during aerobic exercise which enables one's heart and lungs to receive the most benefit from a workout.

Teacher: ones whose occupation is to instruct.

Team leader: is someone (or in certain cases there may be multiple team leaders) who provides guidance, instruction, direction, leadership to a group of other individuals (the team) for the purpose of achieving a key result or group of aligned results.

Technology: – the use of science in solving problems.

Teen father: a parent who is between the ages of 13-19.

Teen mother: a parent who is between the ages of 13-19.

Tennis balls: ball designed for the sport of tennis, approximately 6.7 cm (2.7 in.) in diameter and is normally yellow in color.

Termination: to bring or come to an end.

Testicular: is the male generative gland in animals.

Throwing: to send through the air with a quick forward motion of the arm.

Tobacco: any of a genus of chiefly American plants of the night shade family that have sticky leaves and tube shaped flowers.

Tobacco use: the in take of tobacco in forms of smoking or chewing.

Tolerance: ability to put up with something harmful or unpleasant.

Treatment: the act or manner or an instance of treating someone or something.

Triglycerides: is Glyceride in which the glycerol is esterified with three fatty acids.[1] It is the main constituent of vegetable oil and animal fats.

Trimesters: a period of three months.

Trust: firm belief in character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something.

Twisting: to pull off, rotate, or break by a turning force.

U

Unhealthy relationship: a unity not it good health.

V

Values: to think highly of.

Vandalism: intentional destruction or damage to property.

Video: relating to or used in the sending or receiving of television images.

Vigorous: done with force and energy.

Violence: the use of force in a way that harms a person or property.

Vision: imagine.

Visualization: the formation of visual mental images.

Vital organ damage: injury to a major organ that will be the likely cause of death.

Volunteer: of, relating to donating your services for no charge.

W

Walking: Moving where the body weight transfers from one foot to the other in a continuous movement.

Weaning: to turn one away from something long desired or followed.

Weight chart: a guide that will describe healthy weights based upon height, weight, and age.

Work ethic: a set of values based on hard work and diligence. It is also a belief in the moral benefit of work and its ability to enhance character.

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