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Health, Fitness and Exercise Articles are usually the first information you seek when starting out on a healthy lifestyle. Below you will find articles on all topics of health and fitness.
Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally
as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness
and well-being (Blaxter 1990). In any organism, health is a form of homeostasis.
This is a state of balance, with inputs and outputs of energy and matter in
equilibrium (allowing for growth). Health also implies good prospects for
continued survival. In sentient creatures such as humans, health is a broader
concept.
The World
Health Organization defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental
and social well-being, and does not consist only of the absence of disease
or infirmity." Though this is a useful and accurate definition, some would
consider it idealistic and non-realistic. Using the WHO definition classifies
70-95% of people as unhealthy.
The most solid aspects of wellness that fit firmly in the realm of medicine
are the environmental health, nutrition,
disease prevention, and public health matters that can be investigated and
assist in measuring well-being.
Fitness is a central concept in evolutionary theory. It describes the capability of an individual of certain genotype to reproduce, and usually is equal to the proportion of the individual's genes in all the genes of the next generation. If differences in individual genotypes affect fitness, then the frequencies of the genotypes will change over generations; the genotypes with higher fitness become more common. This process is called natural selection.
This collection of health, fitness and exercise articles will build over time as health issues and Fitness topics come into view from either exposure in the media or through contact with clients that have run into these issues.
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