Question

Max’s Experience

I never thought that I would be at risk for cardiovascular disease. For one thing, I’m still young—only 20. For another, I’ve always been pretty healthy. When colds and flu go around, I don’t usually catch them. I have never been a smoker. And also, because I used to play sports in high school, I still thought of myself as active and athletic. But the truth is that after I came to college I wasn’t involved in sports anymore and I didn’t really get any exercise. Once in a great while some friends and I would toss around a Frisbee. For one of my classes, I had to climb a couple flights of stairs to get to the classroom and I would find that I was really out of breath, which told me I was not in very good shape anymore. During a physical exam, when my doctor did a blood test, I was surprised to learn that I had high cholesterol. I had also gained 11 pounds since high school. Along with my lack of exercise, the fact that I ate pepperoni pizza regularly, ate fruits and vegetables only once in a blue moon, and my grandfather having had a heart attack when he was only 50 put me in the high-risk category for coronary heart disease. Getting those results was really a wake-up call for me. I took the time when I was taking the Lifetime Wellness class to really focus on trying to reduce my risk. I began working out and tried to reverse my eating habits—pizza and fast food only once in a while, and fruits, vegetables, fish, and other healthy foods often. Now, a year later, my cholesterol levels are just about normal. I have lost weight, exercise regularly, and eat pretty healthy most of the time. The risk analysis now shows that I am at a low risk for heart disease. I know these changes have made me healthier and most likely I have added years to my life.

Critical Thinking Questions

1. What risk factors for coronary heart disease was Max exhibiting at the beginning of his story? Which of the risk factors were out of his control and which were changeable?

2. What do you think was the most significant change Max made, and why?

3. What risk factors might contribute to your own possibility of developing coronary heart disease, and what can you do about them?

Answer 1

Answer:-

1) The way that he was no longer fit as a fiddle and was going "exhausted" after little physical exercise. at the point when his primary care physician did a blood test, he was astounded to discover that he had elevated cholesterol. He had likewise increased 11 pounds since secondary school.

Not many of the things like being fit as a fiddle and abstaining from eating Pizza and eating more foods grown from the ground was in his control while having a hereditary factor of risk including in heart disease of crazy.

2)After joining wellbeing class he made of part of positive change in regards to his wellbeing and with smart dieting propensities, that I believe was the most significant change in his life.

3) Increased cholesterol and weight can in any case pt some peril to the individual and so as to beat these issues, normal exceercise, running must be finished. Customary checking of blood cholesterol is significant and to have the solid eating regimen.

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