6th Grade Chapter 1 Health Power Point Health and Wellness

What is Health? Health-the condition of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being. The Four Components of Health Physical-the condition of your body. Emotional –the way in which you express your feelings. Mental-the way you cope with the demands of daily life. Social-the way you interact with people.

Physical Health Eating balanced meals. Engaging in physical activity. Getting 8 hours of sleep every night. Maintaining good hygiene. Avoiding drugs and alcohol.

Emotional Health Expressing emotions in healthy ways. Deal with sadness and ask for help if needed. Accept both their strengths and weakness. Growing up means you may have additional responsibilities both at home and school. This causes stress and can make you emotional.

Mental Health The ability to handle stress effectively and to solve problems. Openness to new ideas and new ways of doing things. The ability to adjust to changes

Social Health Are you considerate of other people? Do you show respect to other people? Are you dependable? Do you support your friends when they make good choices? Do you share your feelings with your friends?

Wellness Is the state of good health that is achieved by balancing your physical, emotional, mental, and social health. To keep your health balanced, do the following things: Stay physically healthy by taking care of your body. Stay mentally healthy by dealing with stress appropriately. Stay emotionally healthy by expressing your feelings in a healthy way. Stay socially healthy by being considerate of others.

Lesson 2. What influences your health? Who are You? You have characteristics, or traits, that you inherited from your parents. Heredity-the passing of traits from a parent to a child. These traits determine your physical features. Ex. Eye color, hair color, and skin are physical traits that can be passed from parents to you. Some diseases such as Sickle cell anemia and diabetes are affected by both heredity and other factors, such as diet.

What is around you? Environment-is all the living and nonliving things around you. Air pollution is one of the main causes of health problems, especially respiratory problems. Second hand smoke is another form of air pollution. Your environment can affect your physical health. Noise pollution can make it hard to concentrate and thus affects your mental health.

Healthy Attitudes Healthy Living The choices you make reflect your lifestyle. Lifestyle is a set of behaviors by which you live your life. Attitude is the way you act, think, or feel that causes you to make certain choices.

Being Responsible As you get older, taking care of yourself involves practicing preventive healthcare. Preventive Healthcare is taking steps to prevent illness and accidents before they happen. Regular exams or physicals. Eating a balanced diet. Avoiding risky behavior Wearing your seat belt. You should form good health habits now because bad habits can be very difficult to break.

Life Skills Life Skills are skills that help you deal with situations that can affect your health. Assessing your health Make GOOD decisions Set goals Use refusal skills Communicating effectively Coping Evaluating media messages Practicing wellness Be a wise consumer