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Last Updated: Mar 15, 2024 • Article History

Category: Science & Tech

Key People:: Eliza Maria Mosher; Robert Cummings

Related Topics:: public health; nutrition; disease; physical culture; mental health

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health, in humans, the extent of an individual’s continuing physical, emotional, mental, and social ability to cope with his or her environment. This definition is just one of many that are possible. What constitutes “good” health in particular can vary widely. The rather fragile individual who stays “well” within the ordinary environment of his or her existence may succumb to a heart attack from heavy shovelling after a snowstorm; or a sea-level dweller may move to a new home in the mountains, where the atmosphere has a lower content of oxygen, and suffer from shortness of breath and anemia until ...(100 of 905 words)

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