1. Influences on Health and Wellness
Lesson 2

2. Heredity and Your Health
Heredity- is the passing down of traits from a parent to a child.
A trait is a characteristic that a person has.
Traits passed down through heredity are often easy to identify.
Eye and hair and skin color
Height
Other traits can be behaviors influenced by heredity that help develop your personality.
Sense of humor

3. Heredity and Your Health
Heredity can also affect your health
Some conditions can be passed down from your parents and not be too serious
Glasses/Contacts
Other conditions can be more serious such as diseases can be passed down or make it more likely that you could also get those same conditions and diseases.
Cancers, heart disease
Cystic fibrosis- a disease of the lungs and digestive system.

4. Environmental Influences
Your Environment- all the living and non living things around you.
Also includes some things you cannot see.
Air, germs, smells, noises.
Your environment can affect your health
Some you have little control over
Particles in the air that cause allergic reactions
Microscopic organisms that make you sick

5. Environmental Influences
Ways you can make your environment healthier
Dispose of trash properly to prevent pollution
Walk, ride a bike, use public transportation to reduce the amount of pollution released into the air.
Start a recycling program for paper, plastic, and aluminum cans to save natural resources
Others?

6. How your Relationships Influence You
Your family and friends are major influences on you and your health.
How?
Your peers also influence your health
Peers are people the same age or in the same grade/school as you and has similar interests.
Which part of health do they influence the most?

7. How your Relationships Influence You
Friends can have a positive and/or negative effect on your health.
Positive: source of support when you need someone to talk to. Study partners.
Others?
Negative: try to get you to smoke, take drugs. Get you to do things that may get you in trouble.

8. Other Factors That Influence You
The media can provide both positive and negative messages
Reliable news sources can pass in valuable information
Advertising can influence you to purchase items that may not be the best for your health.
Quick weight loss products.