1. Chapter 1 Making Wellness a Lifestyle
Objectives
Explain the physical, mental and social aspects of wellness.
List factors that contribute to disease.
Predict how lifestyle choices you make will affect your health.
Describe the relationship between nutrition and health.

2. What are some factors that influence teens’ health-related choices?
Introduction
What are some factors that influence teens’ health-related choices?
What are some specific ways teenagers can learn to increase individual responsibility for health-related choices?

3. Activity
Worksheet:
Lifestyle Assessment
(10 minutes)
Discussion

4. What Does Wellness Mean?
wellness: state of being in good health
quality of life: a person’s satisfaction with his/her looks, lifestyle and responses to daily events
When people are in good health:
they have a desire to stay fit and live a healthy lifestyle
When people are not in good health:
they are energetic and have an enthusiastic outlook
life’s events become harder to manage
they are able to successfully meet the challenges of each day
there is a decrease in the quality of life

5. The Wellness Continuum
You can use a continuum to define your personal state of wellness.
premature death: death that occurs due to lifestyle behaviors that lead to fatal accident or the formation of an avoidable disease
optimum health: a state of wellness characterized by peak physical, mental and social well-being
Your health status determines your place along the wellness continuum.

6. The Wellness Continuum
Premature Death
Optimum Health
low energy level
moderate energy level
high energy level
frequent illness
some illness
infrequent illness and quick recovery from illness
inferior stress management skills
average stress management skills
superior stress management skills
poor social relationships
fair social relationships
excellent social relationships

7. Objectives
Explain the physical, mental and social aspects of wellness.
List factors that contribute to disease.
Predict how lifestyle choices you make will affect your health.
Describe the relationship between nutrition and health.

8. What is the difference between wellness and quality of life?
Review
What is the difference between wellness and quality of life?
What are some
characteristics of
optimum health?
What causes
premature
death?

9. Lifestyle Choices for Wellness
Activity
Worksheet:
Lifestyle Choices for Wellness
(10-15 minutes)

10. Three Major Components of Wellness
Physical Health
fitness of your body
What factors can harm your physical health?
Mental Health
related to the way you feel about yourself, your life and the world around you
Social Health
the way you get along with others
How can you improve your mental health?
related to understanding and accepting roles

11. Holistic Approach to Wellness
holistic medicine: an approach to health care that focuses on all aspect of patient care—physical, mental and social
WELLNESS
Social Health
Physical Health
Mental Health

12. Factors that Affect Wellness
Why is it important to
recognize the impact of
health-related
issues in the teen years?
Your present actions and attitudes are shaping the person you will become in the future

13. Factors that Contribute to Disease
risk factor: a characteristic or behavior that influences a person’s chance of getting a disease
unhealthy lifestyle choices
poor environmental quality
inadequate health care
heredity

14. Factors that Contribute to Disease—Unhealthy Lifestyle Choices
Three major causes of death among adults:
heart disease
cancer
stroke
Unhealthy lifestyle choices:
nutrition
stress management
exercise
**the CDC estimates lifestyle choices account for about half the factors contributing to these diseases

15. Factors that Contribute to Disease—Poor Environmental Quality
environmental quality: the state of the physical world around you
Includes the safety of:
the water you drink
the air you breath
the food you eat

16. Factors that Contribute to Disease—Inadequate Health Care
accounts for about 10% of the risk factors that contribute to leading causes of death
Causes of inadequate health care:
failure to diagnose, or recognize, a disease early enough
lack of specialists or equipment at health care facilities
poorly managed facilities
improperly given treatments
failure to get check-ups
lack of health insurance or money to pay for treatment

17. Factors that Contribute to Disease—Heredity
accounts for 25% of the factors that contribute to the leading causes of death
beyond your control (genetics)
How can you combat heredity?

18. Health-Promoting Choices
You have control over the factors that influence your health.
Experts have identified certain behaviors that make a difference in people’s quality of life.
choose a healthy lifestyle
resist negative peer pressure
improve your environment
choose quality health care

19. Health-Promoting Choices: Choose a Healthy Lifestyle
diet: all the foods and beverages you consume
Healthy lifestyle practices:
provide your body with fuel throughout the day by eating 3 or more regularly spaced meals, including breakfast
sleep 8-9 hours each night
maintain a healthy weight
exercise most days of the week for at least 20 minutes
do not smoke
avoid drinking alcoholic beverages
do not use street drugs

20. Health-Promoting Choices: Resist Negative Peer Pressure
peer pressure: the influence people in your age and social group have on your behavior
How to combat negative peer pressure:
self-confidence
strong enough to say “no” to what you consider to be a poor choice

21. Health-Promoting Choices: Improve Your Environment
carpool or take public transportation to avoid polluting the air with car exhaust
use cleaning products that will not pollute water supplies
handle food carefully to avoid contamination that can cause illness

22. Health-Promoting Choices: Choose Quality Health Care
select a physician who specializes in your particular health care needs
choose facilities that have a reputation for offering quality health care
see your doctor for regular checkups
seek your doctor’s advice when first noticing a health problem
when you visit your doctor, describe your symptoms accurately and completely

23. Making a Change Worksheet: My Plan for Wellness and
Changing one behavior can affect all aspects of your health.
Worksheet:
My Plan for Wellness and
Behavior Change Contract
(15-20 minutes)

24. Objectives
Predict how lifestyle choices you make will affect your health.
Describe the relationship between nutrition and health.

25. Describe some characteristics of quality health care.
Review
Name some healthy
lifestyle choices?
What are some
factors that
contribute to
disease?
Define the following:
physical health
mental health
social health
Describe some characteristics of quality health care.

26. Nutrition and Wellness
One factor shown to have a big impact on wellness is nutrition.
nutrition: the sum of the processes by which a person takes in food and uses food substances
nutrients: the basic components of food that nourish the body
eating specific foods cannot cause or prevent certain diseases
following certain eating patterns tends to increase or decrease a person’s chance of illness

27. Evaluating Research Reports
studies should be replicated
examine what’s in a research article
who speaks on nutrition must be reliable (e.g., doctors, registered dieticians)
when looking at nutrition claims, ask:
is if from a peer review journal?
does the report describe purpose, method & limitations?
what was the type of population studied?
has there been previous research?
does it make common sense?

28. Evaluating Research Reports
A single study is not a sufficient basis for recommending changes in behavior.

29. Evaluating Health and Nutrition Information
Activity
In lab groups, complete worksheet:
Evaluating Health and Nutrition Information
(20-25 minutes)

30. Objectives
Predict how lifestyle choices you make will affect your health.
Describe the relationship between nutrition and health.

31. What are some things to keep in mind when evaluating research reports?
Review
What are some things to keep in mind when evaluating research reports?
What is the difference
between nutrition and
nutrients?

32. Healthy Eating in the U.S.
Do you think that people in the U.S. are eating as well as they should?
Nutrition problems affecting the nation’s state of wellness:
about one-third of the people in the U.S. eat an inadequate diet
1 out of 3 adults is overweight; 1 out of 4 is more than 20% overweight
popular lifestyles include less and less exercise
important nutrients are missing from the diets of some groups of people, such as teens and older adults
fat, cholesterol, sodium and sugar intake are higher than recommended

33. Healthy Eating in the U.S.
Why do you think some of these problems arise?
Reasons for nutrition problems in the U.S.:
not have enough money to acquire adequate nutrition
lack of information and skills needed to select a nutritious diet
some people may not know they need to make changes
some people ignore current nutrition recommendations

34. The Benefits of Healthy Eating
life expectancy: the average length of life of people living in the same environment
Life expectancy in the U.S. is over 70 years.

35. Use the remainder of the class period to complete the review.
Activity
Use the remainder of the class period to complete the review.