AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Health behaviors are actions taken by individuals that are health-enhancing (leading to improved health) or health-compromising (leading to poorer health).

Detailed explanation-2: -Health promoting behaviours include relaxation, exercise, weight control, and diet. One must attend to health problems by proper diagnosis. Positive thinking have a positive effect on health. Threats to health include alcohol and drug use, smoking, tobacco, poor nutrition, lack of physical exercise and unsafe sex.

Detailed explanation-3: -The six health-compromising behaviours (low fruit consumption, high sweet consumption, less frequent tooth brushing, low physical activity, physical fighting and smoking) clustered into two clusters.

Detailed explanation-4: -Such lifestyle that includes eating a low-fat diet, regular physical activities, maintaining a healthy body weight, and avoiding smoking and stress, helps prevent many chronic diseases.

Detailed explanation-5: -Five key health-related behaviors for chronic disease prevention are never smoking, getting regular physical activity, consuming no alcohol or only moderate amounts, maintaining a normal body weight, and obtaining daily sufficient sleep.