1. Understanding Your Health
Chapter 1
Understanding Your Health
Lesson 1
What Is Health and Wellness?
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2. A combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being
health
wellness
A state of well-being, or total health
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3. In this lesson, you will learn to
define health.
identify the three sides of the health triangle.
explain how health habits affect wellness.

4. Classifying
Using the health triangle as a guide, create a concept map that gives examples of each of the three types of health.
Mental/ Emotional
Physical
Social

5. The choices you make and actions you take every day shape your health.
What Is Health?
Looking fit and feeling well are important, but good health does not stop there.
health A combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being
Good health also means getting along well with others and feeling good about yourself.
The choices you make and actions you take every day shape your health.

6. Your Health Triangle Mental/ Emotional Physical Social
The triangle shape best reflects the three sides of health.
Social

7. Physical Health Eat nutritious foods and snacks.
Get regular checkups from
a doctor and a dentist.
Physical Health
These are ways you can improve your physical health.
Avoiding harmful behaviors includes avoiding alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
Avoid harmful behaviors.

8. Mental/Emotional Health
You like and accept yourself.
Mental/ Emotional Health
You are able to handle challenges.
Your mental/emotional health also involves how you handle your feelings, thoughts, and the situations you face everyday.
You can improve your mental/emotional health by expressing yourself in a healthy way. This includes sharing your thoughts and feelings with a friend or with your family, and having a positive attitude.
You find positive solutions to problems.

9. Social Health Supporting the people you care about
Communicating with, respecting, and valuing people
Social Health
Spending quality time with your family and friends is one way to improve your social health.
Making and keeping friends

10. Achieving a Healthy Balance
When one side of the health triangle changes, the other two are affected.
Over time, ignoring any side of your health triangle can affect your total health.
For example:
Sean awoke late for school this morning and did not have time for breakfast.
Now it is midmorning and Sean is having trouble paying attention in class. He feels tired.
Sean’s choice to skip breakfast is negatively affecting his mental and physical health.

11. Wellness and Total Health
When your health is in balance, you are more likely to have a high level of wellness.
wellness A state of well-being, or total health
Wellness is an indication of your current health habits and behaviors.

12. Wellness and Total Health
The wellness continuum provides a picture of your health triangle at any given time and lets you know if you need to improve your health habits.

13. What I Learned Vocabulary Define health. Lesson 1 Review
Health is a combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.

14. What I Learned List Name the three sides of the health triangle.
Lesson 1 Review
What I Learned
List Name the three sides of the health triangle.
The three sides of the health triangle are physical, mental/emotional, and social health.

15. Lesson 1 Review
What I Learned
Describe What role do decisions play in wellness? What other factors affect a person’s wellness?
Positive decisions increase your level of wellness. Other factors that affect your revel of wellness include health habits and health knowledge.

16. Lesson 1 Review
Thinking Critically
Evaluate Kathy spends a lot of time with her friends. They watch movies, listen to CDs, and go shopping. Kathy gets good grades except in physical education class. Evaluate which part of her total health could be out of balance. What could Kathy do to improve this area of wellness?
Kathy needs to work on her physical health. She could ask her friends to exercise with her.

17. Lesson 1 Review
Thinking Critically
Apply Masaki rarely catches a cold. Does this mean he has a high level of wellness? Why or why not?
No, it simply means he has good physical health.

18. Understanding Your Health
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Chapter 1
Understanding Your Health
Lesson 1
What Is Health and Wellness?
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