Lifelong Health and Wellness
Lifelong health and wellness can help you enjoy life to the fullest. It takes knowledge and dedication to maintain optimum health, but you have learned many of the skills needed to stay fit and active. In this module, you will continue your health journey by exploring daily nutrition regarding amino acids, minerals, vitamins, and other important nutrients. You will understand the important balance among energy (in the form of calories), sleep, and physical activity. In addition, you will learn how to maintain healthy organs and avoid health problems related to different types of cancer. By the end of this module, you will be ready to assess the accuracy of health claims made by health and wellness products as you review scientific research studies on nutrition.
Getting Started
What do you think is important to maintaining lifelong health and wellness? What healthy habits will you need to maintain during your lifetime in order achieve and sustain optimum health? In a journal entry, make a list of these important items. If you need assistance on writing a journal entry, please visit the Developmental Module for more information. Once you have completed your journal entry, please save it with a file name of mod8_lifelong and submit it to the journal dropbox.
Key Vocabulary
To view the definitions for these key vocabulary terms, visit the course glossary.
antioxidant |
glycogen |
benign tumor |
malignant tumor |
body composition |
mesomorph |
body mass index |
nonessential amino acid |
cancer |
physical fitness |
carcinogen |
saturated fat |
ectomorph |
trans fat |
endomorph |
tumor |
energy balance |
unsaturated fat |
| essential amino acid | water-soluble vitamin |
| fat-soluble vitamin |