Exam 5: Developing More Healthful Behavior

Regular use of hallucinogens may lead to ______.

Drinking in early adolescence is a risk factor for alcohol abuse later on.

Sleep preparations, such as sleeping pills, work by ______.

Depressants are drugs that cause or contribute to depression.

Drugs that accelerate or speed up central nervous system activity and heighten states of bodily arousal and mental alertness are ______.

Children of alcoholics may inherit a ______ sensitivity to its rewarding effects and a ______ tolerance of its negative effects.

The very act of dieting can make it progressively more difficult to lose additional weight.

Regular use of hallucinogens can lead to physiological dependence.

Barbiturates are ______ with a number of medical uses including relief of anxiety and tension, deadening of pain, and treatment of epilepsy, high blood pressure, and insomnia.

Each of the following poses a particular risk for developing heart disease or cancer EXCEPT ______.

Internet addiction is related to ______.

Organic molecules that comprise the basic building blocks of body tissues are ______.

About one in ______ adults in the United States say they regularly go to bed after midnight.

Units of food energy, expressing the ability to raise temperature or give off body heat, are called ______.

Liver is rich in vitamin ______ but also high in _____________.

Discuss the functions of sleep and how sleeping patterns influence our health.

Nicotine is a ______ stimulant.

Dieting has become the normative pattern for young women today.

Smoking damages ______.

Fatty tissue metabolizes food more slowly than muscle tissue does.