1. Health - the combination of
physical,
mental/emotional (spiritual), and
social well-being.
Your health triangle --
Well-being – Energy – Effectiveness
The health continuum
Health/wellness constantly changes
Your health can be seen as a point along a sliding scale (continuum) spanning from high level of wellness to the loss of health/wellness at the opposite end.

2. Heredity
All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents.
Hair, eye color, skin type, intellect, height, weight, etc.

3. Environment: The sum of your surroundings -
PHYSICAL
Neighborhoods and school safety; air and water quality; availability of parks, rec facilities and libraries; access to medical care.
SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
Peers – people of the same age (who share similar interests) including your friends;
Includes other people – parents, family, mentor, teacher, coach, employer, colleague, neighbor, delivery, sale, safety, police, etc.
CULTURAL
Collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group
Language, foods, spiritual beliefs, traditions

4. Media & Technology Various communication methods = Media
Media delivery = Technology
radio, TV, telephone, internet, texts, billboards, newspapers, magazines, etc.

5. Risk Behaviors
Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.
Tobacco/alcohol use, unprotected sex, truancy, fighting, crash diets, etc.
Others?

6. Cumulative Risks
Related risks that increase an negative effect with each added risk.
It can also be a singular effect of a high fat diet alone, many poor meals and overall diet,
or a combination effect with other negative habits like poor diet with tobacco use, lack of exercise, and limited health care.

7. Buckle up
Seat belts
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Seat belts prevent 50% of injuries and death.
64% of automobile deaths were not wearing a seat belt.
source CDC
Jaywalking- minor crime- major consequence. Of the 5000 pedestrians hit by cars last year 75% of them were not using the cross walk.

8. 480,000 Americans a year die from tobacco
Smoking-
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Smoking just 1 cigarette has been shown to increase the stiffness in your arteries by 25%. There is also evidence showing just 1 cigarette can also begin to create abnormal cell growth.
Smokers who smoked just 1-4 cigarettes a day were 3X more likely to have heart disease.
90% of lung cancer patients are smokers.
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death.
Smoking 10 or more a day will increase the chances of:
heart disease X4, Stroke X4, Lung cancer X23
Source cdc. NIH( NIAAA)

9. Alcohol
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people who started drinking before age 15 are 4x more likely to become dependent on alcohol later in life.
Source cdc. NIH( NIAAA)

10. Caffeine - http://abcnews. go
Caffeine - drinks-caffeine
Crash diet
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11. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, theory of flow

12. Components of Flow
Intense and focused concentration on the present moment
Merging of action and awareness
A loss of reflective self-consciousness
A sense of personal control or agency over the situation or activity
A distortion of temporal experience, one's subjective experience of time is altered
Experience of the activity as intrinsically rewarding

13. Prevention
Taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse.
Wearing a seat belt
Getting regular exercise
Meditation
Avoiding early onset sexual activity
Prioritizing
Stand up for your beliefs

14. Abstinence
A deliberate decision to avoid high risk behaviors, including use of tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and sexual activity.

15. Lifestyle factors
Personal habits or behaviors related to the way a person lives – people who practice positive health habits tend to be healthier and live longer.

16. Health Education
Providing accurate health information and teaching health skills to help people make healthy decisions.

17. Health Disparities
Differences in health outcomes among groups – gender, race, education, disability, socio-economic status, age, location, etc.

18. Health Literacy
A person’s capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and to use these resources to promote one’s health and wellness.