In relation to weight gain, what did the panel from the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee determine? - ANS It may be necessary to get more than 30 minutes of daily physical activity to prevent excessive weight gain
Who was the Secretary of Health and Human Services who got the p...
In relation to weight gain, what did the panel from the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory
Committee determine? - ANS It may be necessary to get more than 30 minutes of daily
physical activity to prevent excessive weight gain
Who was the Secretary of Health and Human Services who got the process started for creating
a Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee? - ANS Michael Leavitt
True or False: The Cooper Institute has an ongoing longitudinal study with the largest database
in the world on physical fitness - ANS True
Who is credited as being called he father of preventive medicine? - ANS Hippocrates
According to our textbook, which book published in 1967 is often credited as having launched a
fitness revolution with its description of simple walking and running plan progressions? - ANS
Jogging by Bill Bowerman
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, what is Partial Disability? - ANS
some degree of difficulty in performing activities of daily living
Mark all that apply. Which of the following are given as examples of additional demands that
often accompany heavy work? - ANS high environmental temperature
awkward posture
heavy loading of small muscle groups
True or False: the average life expectancy has decreased by 5 years over the past 100 years -
ANS False
True or False: Human beings have not evolved to handle a sedentary lifestyle, meaning, human
beings need sufficient movement to be at optimal health - ANS True
Which of the following are part of the 5 components of health-related fitness as described in the
powerpoint? - ANS Morphology/body composition, cardiorespiratory, muscular fitness
, Select the Hill's Criterion which fits this description best: a sample of 100 people is randomly
divided into a control group and an exercise group. the baseline VO2max values of both groups
are the same. after 12 weeks of intervention, only the exercise group showed an improvement
in VO2max - ANS experiment
Select the Hill's Criterion which fits this description best: Drug X is associated with decreased
LDL cholesterol levels, but not with decreased triglyceride levels - ANS specificity
Select the Hill's Criterion which fits this description best: in this experiment, 100 people were
randomized either to a control group or a strength training group. At baseline, both groups had
the same average muscular strength. after 12 weeks of intervention, only the strength training
group showed improvements in muscular strength. - ANS temporality
Select the Hill's Criterion which fits this description best: a study in China found that an
additional 30 minutes of walking per day can improve the cardiorespiratory fitness of elderly
women. a study in England found that an additional 30 minutes of walking per day can improve
the cardiorespiratory fitness in middle aged men - ANS consistency
Select the Hill's Criterion which fits this description best: people who accumulate 40 MET/hrs
per week of aerobic training tend to have better cardiorespiratory fitness compared to people
who accumulate only 20 MET/hrs per week of aerobic training - ANS dose response
true or false: a specific strength of an accelerometer in a smart phone is that it can provide
detailed information on frequency, duration and intensity of the activity - ANS true
rank order (provide a number between 1 - 7 where 1 is most feasible; 7 is least feasible) each of
the following PA assessment tools in terms of the feasibility of the tool to assess PA behavior in
a public health or community setting - ANS (1) Global PA questionnaires (2) pedometers),
(3) accelerometers, (4) doubly labeled water, (5) direct observation, (6) PA questionnaires, (7)
indirect calorimetry
when considering the different PA assessment tools to use for clients or participants; which tool
would be considered best if you needed something that could give immediate feedback for the
participant? - ANS pedometers
true or false: physical activity measures are dependent on if your outcomes are behavior or
physiology related - ANS true
the type of validity called criterion validity is defined as: - ANS the extent to which a test
measurement is relate to a definitive technique or "gold standard"
true or false: NHANES began in the early 1960's - ANS true
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