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Health Behavior

Behaviors expressed by individuals to protect, maintain or promote their health status. For example, proper diet, and appropriate exercise are activities perceived to influence health status. Life style is closely associated with health behavior and factors influencing life style are socioeconomic, educational, and cultural.


Health

The state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease.

The state of conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern. (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed)

Exercise

Physical activity which is usually regular and done with the intention of improving or maintaining PHYSICAL FITNESS or HEALTH. Contrast with EXERTION which is concerned largely with the physiologic and metabolic response to energy expenditure.

Health

The state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease.

The state of conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern. (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed)

Life

The state that distinguishes organisms from inorganic matter, manifested by growth, metabolism, reproduction, and adaptation. It includes the course of existence, the sum of experiences, the mode of existing, or the fact of being. Over the centuries inquiries into the nature of life have crossed the boundaries from philosophy to biology, forensic medicine, anthropology, etc., in creative as well as scientific literature. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed; Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)

Health

The state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease.

The state of conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern. (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed)

Behavior

The observable response a person makes to any situation.

Life

The state that distinguishes organisms from inorganic matter, manifested by growth, metabolism, reproduction, and adaptation. It includes the course of existence, the sum of experiences, the mode of existing, or the fact of being. Over the centuries inquiries into the nature of life have crossed the boundaries from philosophy to biology, forensic medicine, anthropology, etc., in creative as well as scientific literature. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed; Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)



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