Explain the health benefits of physical activity

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Physical activity strengthens heart and lungs, helps control and prevent type 2 diabetes, reduces the risk of some cancers, increases immune function, strengthens bones, reduces risk of bodily injury, helps maintain weight, and improves psychological health.

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A malignant tumor of the germ cell of the retina is:

A) retinitis. B) retinoblastoma. C) retinopathy. D) retinal.

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Condition of large cells

What will be an ideal response?

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A patient presents to the clinic complaining, "Every time I get even the tiniest cut, I bleed and bleed and bleed." The doctor suspects that this patient has an inherited bleeding disorder that results from defective clotting proteins

This disease is called: A. AIDS B. hemophilia C. leukemia D. lymphoma

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Metabolic rates slow 1 to 2 percent a year beginning at which life stage?

A) Age 10 B) Age 30 C) Age 50 D) Age 70

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