1. Living A Healthy Life

2. Health and Wellness What is Health?
A) A nationwide health promotion plan
B) practicing health and safety habits
C) combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being

3. Health and Wellness Cont.
Health- The combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being

4. What is Wellness?
A) The combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being
B) an overall state of well-being, or total health
C) practicing health and safety habits

5. Wellness
an overall state of well-being, or total health

6. So………
Being healthy does not mean that you will never be sick. Instead, it means striving to be the best you can be at any given time.

7. Promoting Your Health
Lifestyle factors- Habits that affect people’s overall health, happiness, and longevity, or how long they live.
Can be negative: smoking, drinking, etc.
Can be positive:
Getting 8-10 hrs of sleep each night
Managing stress
Abstinence (substances, sex)

8. How many hours of sleep do you get on average each night?
A) 5 or less
B) 6-7
C) 8-10
D) 10 or more

9. Prevention
Practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injury.
Wearing safety belts
Applying sunscreen
Avoiding unsafe areas
What else?

10. Health Education vs Health Literacy
Health Education- the providing of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices
Health Literacy- a person’s capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and use these resources to promote his/her health and wellness

11. Healthy People 2010
A nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States.
2 main goals
Increase quality and years of healthy life
Remove health differences that result from factors such as gender, race, education, disability, and location.

12. Quantity vs Quality
What do you want?

13. What are the 3 sides of the health triangle?
A)Physical, emotional, mental
B) Mental/Emotional, Social, Psychological
C) Social, Physical, Psychological
D) Physical, Mental/Emotional, Social

14. Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
The Health Triangle
Physical Health
Mental/Emotional Health
Social Health
All sides must be balanced

15. Influences on Your Health
Heredity- all the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents.
Environment- The sum of your surroundings.
Physical (where you live)
Social (parents, peers-people of same age who share similar interests, etc.)

16. Other Influences
Culture- The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.
Attitude- The way you view situations. Your attitude greatly affects the choices you make.
Behavior- Ex: family history of heart disease doesn’t mean you have to follow in footsteps. You can make your own choices.
Media- the various methods of communicating information.
Technology- Medicine, TV, video games, etc.

17. Reducing Health Risks
Risk Behaviors- Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.
Examples????

18. Cumulative Risks
Cumulative Risks- related risks that increase in effect with each added risk.
Examples: Smoking cigarettes, driving too fast, not wearing seat belts, etc.

19. Abstinence Avoiding harmful behaviors Harmful behaviors include:
Tobacco use
Alcohol use
Other drug use
Sex before marriage