1. Your Health and Wellness
Chapter 1
Your Health and Wellness
Lesson 1
Your Total Health
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2. A combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being
health
wellness
habit
A combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being
A state of well-being, or total health
A pattern of behavior that you follow almost without thinking
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3. In this lesson, you will learn to
identify the three parts of the health triangle.
describe the relationship between health and wellness.
explain how to balance your physical, mental/emotional, and social health.

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

5. What Is Health?
The sports activities you participate in, the kinds of foods you eat, and the people you spend time with affect your total health.
Often, good health is pictured as a triangle with equal sides (shown on next slide).
health A combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.

6. What Is Health?
The three sides of health are connected. If you make improvements to one side, the others benefit.
When you participate in physical activities, you improve your health. This helps you feel good about yourself, benefiting your mental health. Activities can also improve your social health when you share them with your family and friends.

7. Physical health is the condition of your body.
Physical health is measured by what you do as well as what you don’t do.
By avoiding harmful substances and being physically active, you can stay physically healthy. Being physically healthy means taking care of your body.

8. Mental/Emotional Health
Mental/emotional health is measured by the way you think and express your feelings.
You can develop good mental/emotional health by learning to think positively and to express your feelings in healthy ways.
Positive thinking is a good strategy to use whey you are feeling sad or down. Try focusing your attention on all of the good things in your life, such as your friends, family, and activities you enjoy.
Recognizing and building your strengths will help you feel good about yourself.
Knowing when to ask for help is a good sign of good mental/emotional health.

9. Social Health
Good social health means communicating well with and having respect for family, friends, and acquaintances.
Good social health also means building relationships with people you can trust and who can trust you.
Think about the people in your life. With whom do you feel the most comfortable and why? Can you imagine reaching out to them to offer or ask for support?

10. Healthy Habits and Wellness
When all three sides of your health triangle are balanced, you have achieved wellness.
wellness A state of well-being, or total health

11. Healthy Habits and Wellness
You can improve your wellness by developing good habits.
habit A pattern of behavior that you follow almost without thinking
Good health habits appear on the next slide.

12. Healthy Habits and Wellness
Choosing healthy foods
Participating in regular physical
activity
Good Health
Habits
Once you develop good health habits, you will be taking care of yourself almost without thinking.
Getting along with others
Learning how to handle stress

13. Healthy Habits and Wellness
Peak Health
Healthy Habits
Practices health skills
Avoids risk
Where do you fit on the wellness scale?
Average Health
Unhealthy Habits
Does not practice health skills
Takes risks
Poor Health

14. What I Learned Vocabulary What is health? Lesson 1 Review
Health is physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.

15. What I Learned List What are two measures of good social health?
Lesson 1 Review
What I Learned
List What are two measures of good social health?
Any two: feeling good about yourself, building strengths, managing stress, expressing feelings, and seeking help with problems

16. What I Learned Recall Identify three positive health habits.
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What I Learned
Recall Identify three positive health habits.
Any three: choosing healthy foods; avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs; exercising; handling stress; getting along with others

17. Lesson 1 Review
Thinking Critically
Hypothesize Jordan spends most of his time with friends. They play video games and skateboard. Jordan is not doing very well at school. What do you think his health triangle would look like?
Sample answer: Since Jordan is not doing well at school, his health triangle is lacking on the mental/emotional health side.

18. Lesson 1 Review
Thinking Critically
Evaluate Alexandria is upset because she didn’t do well in her piano recital. Does this mean that she does not have good total health? What can she do to keep her mental/emotional health in balance?
She needs to improve her mental/emotional health. She could express her feelings to a friend.

19. Your Health and Wellness
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