Category: H
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Hassles
Small irritants and pressures experienced in everyday life.
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Harm-loss appraisals
Primary appraisals in Lazarus’s model that the event involves damage or a loss.
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Happiness set point
The idea that happiness levels are fixed, stable across time, and somewhat impervious to control.
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Hand warming
Using cognitive strategies to voluntarily increase skin temperature of the hands.
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Human-cultural environment
People who surround and influence a person through their actions, laws, beliefs, traditions, and social mores.
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High density lipoproteins
Complex of lipids (fat) and proteins that picks up cholesterol in the blood and carries it to the liver. Exercise increases the amount of HDL in the blood. High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is a kind of lipoprotein, composed of protein and fat, which transports lipids through the blood. Elevated levels of HDL can assist in guarding…
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Health-related components of physical fitness
Cardiorespiratory endurance, body composition, flexibility, muscular endurance, and muscular strength.
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Hurricane
A powerful tropical storm characterized by heavy rains and winds over 74 miles per hour.
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High-energy radiation
A form of energy that damages living things, including ultraviolet light, X-rays, cosmic rays, and the energy given off by radioactive substances.
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Herbal cigarette
Any cigarette made from plant materials other than tobacco.