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Your Health and Wellness

Your Health and Wellness. Chapter 1. What is Health?. Lesson 1. If you could have one wish what would it be?. Defining Health. Health- The combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well being Not an absolute state

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Your Health and Wellness

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  1. Your Health and Wellness Chapter 1

  2. What is Health? Lesson 1

  3. If you could have one wish what would it be?

  4. Defining Health • Health- • The combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well being • Not an absolute state • Being healthy means knowing various strategies when making decisions related to health needs and risks of young adults

  5. The Three Elements of Your Health • Physical Health • They way parts and systems of your body work together • Mental and Emotional Health • The way you feel about yourself and relate to others • Social Health • The way you get along with others

  6. Physical Health • Physical Health- How well your body functions • Good physical health provides simplicity in dealing with the activities of daily life, and to resist diseases, and avoid injury. • What are examples of things you can do for good physical health?

  7. Mental/ Emotional Health • Mental/Emotional Health- Includes feelings about yourself, how well you relate to others, and how well you meet the demands of everyday life. • People who have good mental/emotional health enjoy challenges and learning, understand that mistakes encourage growth, accept responsibility and develop higher thinking skills • What are some ways to tell if you have good Mental/ Emotional health?

  8. Social Health • Social Health- Involves the way you get along with others. • Includes the ability to make and keep friends. It also involves communicating well and showing respect for yourself and others. • What are way people express good social health?

  9. Health Triangle • Consists of the three elements of health • Physical • Mental/emotional • Social

  10. Your health is not an absolute state it can change rapidly depending on every day activity.

  11. The Health Continuum

  12. The Health Continuum Optimal level of energy, feeling of well being Free from aches and pains Chronic Disorders High Level of Health Premature Death Lack of energy, inattention, minor ache and pains Moderate level of energy Wellness- An overall state of well-being, or total health

  13. Promoting Your Health • Lifestyle Factors- Personal behaviors related to the way a person lives. • Decisions made daily affect your health.

  14. Lifestyle Factors Get between 7 to 8 hours of sleep per night Eat nutritious foods from the various food groups Refrain from smoking and using tobacco products Eat breakfast daily Do 20 to 30 minutes of non stop vigorous activity a minimum of three times a week Do not use alcohol or other drugs Maintain your recommended weight

  15. Wellness and Prevention • Prevention- • Practicing healthy habits to keep a person well and free from disease • What are some preventive measures that you practice daily?

  16. Influences on Your Health Lesson 2

  17. Influences in Your Health • Heredity- • All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents • Environment- • The sum of your surroundings, such as your family, neighborhood, school, job, and your life experiences • Peers- • People of the same age who share similar interests. Includes your friends and classmates. • Culture- • The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group. This group may be an ethnic group, a community, a nation, or a specific part of the world.

  18. Environments • Physical Environment • Where you go everyday • Social Environment • Who you come in contact with • Cultural Environment • Collective beliefs, customs and behavior of a group

  19. Behavior • Behavior- • The way you choose to act within your environment

  20. Taking Charge of Your Health Lesson 3

  21. Taking Responsibility for Your Health • Risk Factors- • Actions or behaviors that represent a potential health threat

  22. CDC Findings 33% of teens interviewed smoked cigarettes 36% admitted to being in a physical fight during the previous year

  23. Cumulative Risks and Consequences • Cumulative Risks- related risks that increase in effect with each added risk • EX: smoking and bad diet • Cumulative risks may also result from a combination of risk factors • Give an example of combination risk factors???

  24. Understanding Health Risks It is important to understand what behaviors may cause you or others harm You must be aware of the consequences of your choices and behaviors Risk Behaviors- actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others

  25. Abstaining from Risk Behaviors • Tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs- • you avoid many negative consequences including physical, and psychological effects • addiction • bodily harm • even death

  26. Abstaining from Risk Behaviors • Sexual Activity • Never have to worry about unplanned pregnancy- 100% effective • Do not have to worry about STI • Free from emotional problems that accompany sex: guilt, regret, rejection, confusion • Making choices that are always legal

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