1. Chapter 1 – What is Health?
HEALTH: the combination of your physical, mental/emotional, and social well being

2. Your personal level of health affects everything about you
How you look
How you feel
How you act
Attitude
Performance in school, work, recreation
How you feel about yourself
Success in relationships
* Being healthy means striving to be the best you can be at any given time

3. Three Elements of Your Health
Physical Health
Mental and Emotional Health
Social Health

4. Physical Health
Definition – the way the parts and systems of your body work together
Body has the ability to cope with the stresses of normal daily life
Having the strength and energy to pursue physical, mental, emotional and social challenges and changes
What does it entail
Proper nutrition
Regular physical activity
Enough rest and sleep

5. Mental and Emotional Health
Feelings about yourself
How well you relate to others
How well you meet the demands of daily life
Calls for person to use her or her mind to develop good thinking skills

6. Mental v. Emotional Health
Good Mental Health
Good Emotional Health
Enjoy learning
See mistakes as opportunities to learn, grow, and change
Accept responsibilities for their actions
Stand up for beliefs and values
In touch with feelings
Expresses feelings in appropriate and healthful ways
Deal with problems and frustrations without getting overwhelmed
Avoid dwelling on negative thoughts
Use positive thoughts and actions to make it through challenges

7. Social Health Involves the way you get along with others
Ability to make and keep friends
Work and play in cooperative ways
Seeking and lending support when necessary
Communicating well
Showing respect and care for self and others

8. Health Triangle 3 elements of health are interconnected
When one side receives to much or too little attention the other sides change
To be truly healthy all three sides need to be in balance
* Set up for class debate which is the most important factor of health

9. Wellness
A person with a balanced life is said to have a high degree of wellness
Defintion: an overall state of well-being, or total health
It comes from a way of living each day that includes making decisions and practicing behaviors that are based on sound health knowledge and healthful attitudes
Achieving wellness is ongoing, lifelong commitment to physical, mental/emotional, and social health
What is the difference between health and wellness

10. Components of Wellness
Physical Wellness
Emotional Wellness
Social Wellness
Spiritual Wellness (spiritually content today)
Intellectual

11. The Health Continuum Your health is dynamic
Fluctuates along a continuum
Many different points on which your health can be located at any given time
Why do you think people get on the lower end of the continuum?

12. Lifestyle Factors
7 habits that make a difference in people’s overall health, happiness, and longevity
LONGEVITY – how long a person lives
LIFESTYLE FACTORS – personal behaviors and habits related to the way a person lives that help determine his or her level of health

13. 7 Factors Get between seven to eight hours of sleep per night
Eat nutritious foods from the various food groups every day
Refrain from smoking or using tobacco products
Do 20 to 30 minutes of nonstop vigorous activity a min of 3x/week
Do not use alcohol or drugs
Eat breakfast daily
Maintain your recommended weight

14. Your Attitudes, Your Health
Your attitudes affect how well you take care of yourself
Optimists are less likely to suffer illness and die younger than pessimists

15. Wellness Prevention
Prevention: practicing healthy habits to keep a person well and free from disease and other ailments
The key to your health and wellness
HW or Project associated with this

16. Importance of Health Education
Health Education: the providing of accurate health information in such a way as to influence people to change attitudes so that they take positive action about their health
Goal: give you the tolls you need to achieve and maintain total well being
Goal: Health Literacy

17. Health Literacy
Defined: individual’s capacity to obtain, interpret, and understand basic health information and services and use such information and services in ways that promote his or her health and wellness

18. Health Literate Person is:
A critical thinker
A responsible, productive citizen
A self-directed learner
An effective communicator

19. Influences on Your Health
Heredity
Environment
Peers
Culture
Behavior

20. Heredity
All the traits and properties that are passed along biologically from both parents to child

21. Environment
The sum total of your surroundings – your family, where you grew up, where you live now, and all of your experiences
Physical Environment
Social Environment
Cultural Environment

22. Physical Environment
Affects all areas of your health

23. Social Environment Family People who you have daily contact with
Peers: people the same age who share a similar range of interest
Peer pressure
Peers are most influential at this age

24. Cultural Environment
Culture: the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group

25. Behavior One factor in your life you have a lot of control over
The way you choose to act within your environment and with your inherited abilities has a very important impact on who you are

26. FOOD FOR THOUGHT
IS TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR HEALTH THE SAME AS TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE?

27. Risk Factors
ACTIONS OR BEHAVIORS THAT REPRESENT A POTENTIOAL HEALTH THREAT
L2 in teacher book

28. Cumulative Risks
Risks that increase gradually and may add up to a total that is greater than expected
Accumulation of a risk
Combination of risk factors