Alernative Medicine: Basics of Holistic Health

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1. One of the Leading Health Indicators is
  a. stress
  b. mental health
  c. running
  d. all 3
2. A -minute walk after each meal aids in digestion.
  a. 5
  b. 10
  c. 15
  d. 20
3. Physically inactive people are - as likely to develop coronary heart disease as regularly active people.
  a. 1x
  b. 2x
  c. 3x
  d. 4x
4. Muscular ____ - the ability of a muscle to exert force for a brief period of time.
  a. flexibility
  b. endurance
  c. strength
  d. balance
5. When you breathe out, your lungs get rid of
  a. oxygen
  b. gasses
  c. carbon dioxide
  d. carbon monoxide
6. Harmful drugs include
  a. alcohol
  b. nicotine products
  c. caffeine
  d. all 3
7. Eat -- a variety of whole grains products and whole fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts.
  a. mainly
  b. only
  c. always
  d. fast
8. --- is negative stress that may causes illness.
  a. Ustress
  b. distress
  c. estress
  d. all 3
9. Cool responders responded --- to higher cortisol levels than hot responders.
  a. about the same
  b. more
  c. less
  d. always
10. The body reacts to stress by secreting two types of chemical messengers - _____ in the blood and neurotransmitters in the brain.
  a. stressors
  b. white cells
  c. red cells
  d. homones
11. ____ are the pressures from the inside or the outside that cause stress.
  a. stressors
  b. ustress
  c. distress
  d. all 3
12. To reduce or relieve stress, avoid sugary snacks, smoking, alcohol, and 
  a. caffeine
  b. overeating
  c. drugs
  d. all 3
13. Researchers found that students who worked out half-an-hour on a treadmill lowered their scores on an anxiety test by __%. 
  a. 10
  b. 15
  c. 25
  d. 35
14. Put your mind into a Stress-Free mode. Start each day with a short review of your life-mission and weekly
  a. goals
  b. plan
  c. tasks
  d. jobs
15. It is amazing that the simple act of writing about your emotions can improve some areas of your ___ health.
  a. mental
  b. physical
  c. both a and b
  d. neither a or b
16. The target in health-script is self, others and ___.
  a. God
  b. family-memembers
  c. friends
  d. all 3
17. Methods of health-scrips include: poem, essay, notes, and ___
  a. diary
  b. journal
  c. online
  d. all 3
18. Writing about an upsetting experience makes you often feel
  a. relaxed
  b. better
  c. worse
  d. tense
19. It can ____ the level of disease-fighting lymphocytes circulating in the bloodstream.
  a. decrease
  b. maintain
  c. increase
  d. minimize
20. "What am I doing to help myself today?" is a ___ journaling question.
  a. bad
  b. good
  c. dangerous
  d. poor
21. "Insight gained from the event and from your emotional reaction" is the ___ part of a health script.
  a. 1st
  b. 2nd
  c. 3rd
  d. 4th
22. The six basic nutrients are carbohydrates, fats, protein, vitamins, minerals and
  a. water
  b. legumes
  c. fruit
  d. dairy
23. In the USA, the typical diet in 1993 included ___% fats.
  a. 18
  b. 28
  c. 38
  d. 48
24. Percent Daily Values based on a ____ calorie diet
  a. 1000
  b. 1500
  c. 2000
  d. 2500
25. Dietary cholesterol is found in ___ products that are part of the human diet.
  a. grain
  b. animal
  c. fruit
  d. vegetable
26. __________ fat is a fat that has been chemically altered by the addition of hydrogen atoms. Vegetable shortening and margarine are examples.
  a. Monounsaturated

  b. Saturated
  c. hydrogenated
  d. all 3
27. The new Body Mass Index, BMI =___x weight in pounds/divided by height in inches.
  a. 7
  b. 70
  c. 703
  d. 773
28. The BMI index should be ___ or below.
  a. 24
  b. 26
  c. 28
  d. 30
29. Healing meditation fosters peace and reduces ____ by a) putting all aspects of life into their proper places, and b) reducing negative thinking which harms the person.
  a. stress
  b. disease
  c. problems
  d. accidents
30. Two Meditation Forms: 1. In healing meditation, God’s glory, of the past and future, fills your present life. 2. In Eastern meditation, you _____ your mind and yourself.
  a. over-fill
  b. limit
  c. empty
  d. consider
31. Daydreaming is listening to self. Christian meditating…is listening to ____. Praying…is talking to God.
  a. God
  b. self

  c. nature
  d. music
32. In meditation, the greatest problem is our ____ mind. We live so much in this world that it intrudes on us constantly as we try to listen spiritually.
  a. focused
  b. inner
  c. wandering
  d. silent
33. Meditation is like a bump in the road that makes you slow down, like a yield sign that makes you realize that there is other traffic in life, like a ____ sign that forces you to note if it is save to go on.
  a. yield
  b. stop
  c. danger
  d. yellow
34. In meditation, you move from the physical, through the mental, to the
  a. spiritual
  b. social
  c. religious
  d. natural
35. To write, I need paper or my Palm Pilot. To eat, I need food. But to meditate, I just need _____, no props or things.
  a. concentration
  b. peace
  c. quietness
  d. a place
36. ____ believed that literature had healing effects and the ancient Romans also recognized that there was some relationship between medicine and reading.
  a. Plato
  b. Ceasar
  c. Aristotle
  d. all 3
37. Simply stated, bibliotherapy can be defined as the use of ____ to help people solve problems. Another, more precise definition is that bibliotherapy is a family of technique for structuring interaction between a facilitator and a participant based on mutual sharing of literature
  a. writing
  b. books
  c. literature
  d. publications
38. A majority of the studies show mixed results for the efficacy of bibliotherapy as a separate treatment for the solving of problems. They concluded that bibliotherapy generally appears to be more successful as an _______ therapy.
  a. secondary
  b. attached
  c. adjunctive
  d. primary
39. Above all, books chosen by the practitioner should have literary merit--a poorly written novel with stereotyped characters and simplistic answers to complex questions is probably ____ than not reading anything at all.
  a. better
  b. worse
  c. the same
  d. similar
40. In the field of education, teachers began to utilize bibliotherapy in the
  a. 1920s
  b. 1930s
  c. 1940s
  d. 1950s
41. The explosion of ____ programs during the past decade has contributed to the rise in the use of bibliotherapy, in the form of popular self-help books, such as "What Color Is Your Parachute" and "The Relaxation Response."
  a. psychological
  b. pop-psychology
  c. self-help
  d. therapy
42. Our self-talk, our conversations, and our expressed ___, can be healing and contribute to our health.
  a. goals
  b. meditations
  c. actions
  d. dreams
43. Communication goes beyond the use of simple ____ to involve sensitivity to the situation and adaptability to changing behaviors and goals.
  a. skills
  b. thought
  c. answers
  d. questions
44. _____ thinking skills play a dominant role in effective communication because of the speaker's need to constantly adapt to and evaluate the communication context.
  a. Lateral
  b. Creative
  c. Critical
  d. All 3
45. In many ways, mental and physical health is a result of our _____. There is heredity that may do us in, there are germs that may attack us, there are cells that may malfunction. But nevertheless, how we think, eat, move and touch greatly influences our mental and physical health.
  a. thinking
  b. behavior
  c. education
  d. goals
46. Stop unhealthy talk. Don't phone when you can visit. Don't distrust when you have no reason to. Don't isolate yourself. Don't gossip. Don't blame. Don't be sarcastic. Don't be insensitive. Don't nurture a ____ mentality.
  a. victim
  b. loosers
  c. poor man's
  d. sickness
47. On average, leaders are engaged in one form or another of communication for about ___ percent of their waking moments.
  a. 50
  b. 60
  c. 70
  d. 80
48. Charles Jung and his colleagues stress that the real purpose of paraphrasing is not to clarify what the other person actually meant, but to show what it meant to ____.
  a. them
  b. you
  c. all
  d. some
49. Healing humor is the appreciation of incongruous elements in events or ideas that generate spontaneous
  a. laughter
  b. smiles
  c. pleasure
  d. fun
50. ___ in the Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient, suggested laughter therapy and found that ten minutes of hearty laughter could give him two hours of pain-free sleep.
  a. Mark Twain
  b. Norman Cousins
  c. Shakespear
  d. Dickens
51. HEALING HUMOR creatively and invisibly connects the usual with the unusual for the purpose of personal ______. It makes people work together better, frees people to be creative, helps people laugh at themselves, pulls people up and lightens burdens.
  a. enlightment
  b. fun
  c. support
  d. enrichment
52. HARMFUL (or sick) HUMOR is insensitive, malicious, exclusive and ____. It ridicules, slanders, belittles and puts down people.
  a. racial
  b. indifferent
  c. sarcastic
  d. truely fun
53. ____items are always humorous or guaranteed to be funny.
  a. No
  b. Some
  c. Many
  d. All fun
54. You can help heal the past with humor by _____ your perspective, dropping your fears, and seeing many of the hurting incidents of the past as the ridiculous anecdotes they really are.
  a. changing
  b. focusing
  c. limiting
  d. enlarging
55. Charlie Chaplain said: "To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and ____ it."
  a. play with
  b. work
  c. ignore
  d. forget
56. Healing humor is a health-care intervention. Humor can move from smile to laughter to inner joy to _____. It helps overcome your humor deficiency and terminal seriousness.
  a. satisfaction
  b. contentment
  c. peace
  d. action
57. Florence Nightingale wrote that, "The needs of the ____ are as critical to health as those individual organs which make up the body".
  a. soul
  b. spirit
  c. person
  d. self
58. Spiritual ____ is thinking about failing God, who loves you so much, by selfishness and sinfulness.
  a. distress
  b. stress
  c. pain
  d. failure
59. Spiritual ____: a) Collect data on a person's spiritual life, quality of major relationships with individuals and God, sense of the sacred and holy, faith, and personal desire to make changes in the spiritual life. And more.
  a. Assessment
  b. Testing
  c. Diagnosis
  d. Therapy
60. Spiritual _____, as evidenced by expression of frustration or outrage at God for having allowed illness or other trials, comments about the "unfairness" of God, and/or negative remarks about institutionalized religion and/or its ministers or spiritual care givers.
  a. anger
  b. fear
  c. stress
  d. pain
61. The Grief Process: Review a case of grief and state how the five steps are related to the experience: denial, bargaining, ____, depression, and acceptance.
  a. fear
  b. anger
  c. stress
  d. pain
62. Forgiveness is the dealing with another person's _____ in a helpful manner.
  a. problem
  b. pain
  c. offense
  d. hurt
63. Claire Frazier-Yzaguirre wrote: "When we forgive, we ____ ourselves from/to the bitter ties that bind us to the one who hurt us."
  a. bind
  b. free
  c. remove
  d. all 3
64. ____ is a transaction, often a legal one, that releases the injuring person from the consequences of his or her injurious actions.
  a. Forgiving
  b. Reconciling
  c. Pardoning
  d. Rebinding
65. Bar revenge and any thought of inflicting harm as repayment or punishment to the offender. That is the ___ step in forgiveness.
  a. 1st
  b. 2nd
  c. 3rd
  d. 4th
66. In ____ forgiveness, the victims feels with the offender's struggle and develops some empathy for him or her.
  a. spiritual
  b. cognitive
  c. emotional
  d. legal
67. Karl Menninger, the famed psychiatrist, once said that if he could convince the patients in psychiatric hospitals that their sins were forgiven, ____ percent of them could walk out the next day!
  a. 15
  b. 35
  c. 55
  d. 75
68. Acknowledge your guilt in contributing to the clearly identified specific offense(s). That is the ___ step in asking for forgiveness.
  a. 1st
  b. 2nd
  c. 3rd
  d. 4th