1. PSD: Healthy Living – Challenge 4
This challenge requires you to design a ‘Healthy
Lifestyle’ booklet to encourage people to adopt a
healthy lifestyle by highlighting the benefits.
In order to do this we need to analyze…
What constitutes a healthy lifestyle.
Look at booklets that organisations have produced to encourage people to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

2. A ‘Healthy’ Lifestyle
What are the key constituents to a healthy lifestyle? Here is a picture that might give you some ideas…
Diet
Exercise
Personal
Hygiene
Sleep

3. Diet What things do you think make up a healthy diet?
What things do you think make up an unhealthy diet?
A ‘balanced’ diet with emphasis on
fruit & veg and carbohydrates
An ‘unbalanced’ diet with emphasis on
fried, fatty and sugary foods

4. Exercise You don’t have to be an Olympic athlete to exercise!
What sort of activities
could you do?
What sort of activities could you avoid?
Going to the gym
or an exercise class
Team sports
Sedentary activities such as watching the TV, playing video games or reading.
Jogging/walking or walking the dog

5. Personal Hygiene
As well as diet and exercise, personal hygiene helps with your physical well-being.
Brushing your teeth, washing/washing your hands, bathing or showering, brushing your hair, wearing clean clothes.

6. Sleep
For your mental well-being, sleep is just as important as activity!
What time do you go to sleep?
How long do you sleep for?
What do you do before you go to sleep?
Do you have a bedtime routine?

7. Avoid things that are bad for you!
What things might need to be avoided to maintain a
healthy lifestyle?
Alcohol, drugs, smoking and unsafe sex!

8. Benefits of a Healthier Lifestyle
Better muscle tone
Lower cholesterol levels and more efficient heart
Lower blood pressure
Live longer
Healthier skin
Less likely to pick up infections and diseases
Better body image
More confident and more sociable
Higher energy levels and levels of concentration

9. Results of an Unhealthy Lifestyle
Obesity and blocked arteries
Higher blood pressure and lower metabolism
Poorer skin
More likely to pick up infections and diseases
Lower immune system
Less confidence / lower self esteem
Lower energy levels
Lower concentration level and depression
Less money and more antisocial
Higher risk of a stroke or cancer

10. Planning your booklet
Before designing your own booklet on adopting a healthy lifestyle, you need to…
Look at how other people designed their own booklets;
Decide who your booklet targets (perhaps specific to teenagers, elderly people or wheelchair users);
Map out the key areas you wish to highlight to decide on the number of pages in your booklet and the template (if any) you wish to use.

11. Useful Links
Below is a list of links to useful booklets you may wish to view to see how they have set out their leaflet and what useful information you may want to include in your booklet (dependent upon your target audience).

12. Booklet Examples Student 1: Chose 6 pages with the following sections
Page 1 – Title Page
Page 2 – Main Elements contributing to Health & Wellbeing
Page 3 – Diet (inc good/poor/benefits)
Page 4 – Exercise (inc examples & benefits)
Page 5 – Personal Hygiene (inc examples & benefits)
Page 6 – Sleep (inc example of good routine & benefits)

13. Booklet Examples Student 2: Chose 8 pages with the following sections
Page 1 – Title Page
Page 2 – Main Elements contributing to Health & Wellbeing
Page 3 – Diet
Page 4 – Exercise
Page 5 – Personal Hygiene & Sleep
Page 6 – Other Things that Should be Avoided
Page 7 – Potential Benefits of adopting a healthy lifestyle
Page 8 – Potential Results of adopting an unhealthy lifestyle