Healthy Driggs Dragons (your name) (your teacher’s name)

What are Some Ways To Be Healthy? Practice safe habits. Eat a balanced diet. Do all you can to prevent diseases. Avoid tobacco. Be active and exercise daily.

Safety Habits Wear a helmet when riding a bike or skateboard.

Eat a Balanced Diet What is a balanced diet? –

Preventing Diseases Communicable diseases: – contagious, can be spread to other people – Examples: flu Non-Communicable diseases: – not contagious – poor lifestyle choices – born with a chance to get it – Examples: cancer overweight

Avoiding Communicable Diseases Eat a balanced diet

Harmful Effects of Tobacco Tobacco can harm the person using it. Second-hand smoke can harm people who don’t smoke. Examples of health problems caused by tobacco: – cancer –

Physical Exercise What makes you physically fit? – Strong muscles – Endurance (you can run and play for a long time) – Flexible (you can stretch and touch your toes) – Regular exercise every day or every other day – Exertion – doing hard exercise for several minutes that makes your heart rate increase

Physical Exercise Examples of physical activity or exercise you can do: –

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