1. Your Notebook: Section 1 - Warm-ups; Section 2 & 3 – Notes Chapter 1 Warm-Up What is the difference between Health and Wellness?

2. Chapter 1 Warm-Up What is the difference between Health and Wellness? Health is the combination of physical, social, and mental/emotional well-being. Wellness is the state, or balance, of all three types.

3. The Importance of Good Health ► Health is the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being. ► Health is dynamic (subject to constant change); your health is a point on the health continuum and ranges from a high level of health to premature death. ► See Figure 1.1 on Page 5.

4. Promoting Your Health ► The decisions you make each day affect your health. ► Some habits that promote good health.  Get 8 – 10 hours of sleep each night.  Start each day with a healthy breakfast.  Eat a variety of nutritious foods each day.  Be physically active at least 20 minutes, 3+ times a week.  Maintain a healthy weight.

5.  Avoid tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.  Abstain from sexual activity before marriage.  Manage stress.  Maintain positive relationships.  Practice safe behaviors to prevent injuries. ► A key to your wellness is prevention! ► Health education is important because it gives people the tools to become and stay healthy.

6. ► Healthy People 2010 focuses on healthy individuals, families, and communities.  Healthy People 2000 failed miserably…aside from this textbook, I have not heard much about H.P. 2010. ► Health literacy  A health-literate individual is a critical thinker, problem solver; responsible and productive citizen; self-directed learner; and effective communicator.

7. Your Health Triangle ► Formerly referred to as “Wellness Wheel”. ► Three elements of health are connected like a triangle – All three sides are equally important. ► Physical health – how well your body functions. ► Mental/Emotional Health – Your feelings about yourself, how well you meet demands of daily life, your ability to process information. ► Social Health – the way you get along with others.

8. Influences on Your Health ► Your health is influenced by your heredity. ► Your health is influenced by your environment.  Physical environment – safety of neighborhood, air pollution, environmental smoke.  Social environment – family and other people you have daily contact with. Also, peers are part of social environment.  Another part of your environment is your culture.

9. ► Your health is influenced by your attitude. ► Also influenced by your behavior. You have a great deal of control over your own behavior. ► Your health is influenced by the media – radio, television, film, newspapers, magazines, books, and the Internet. ► You are also influenced by advances in technology.

10. Understanding Health Risks ► Risk behaviors ► The first step in becoming responsible for your health is to increase your awareness of risk behaviors in your life. ► Most teens are avoiding risk behaviors by engaging in these behaviors:  Using Seat Belts  Not Smoking Cigarettes  Not using Alcohol or Illicit Drugs  Participating in Physical Activity Three or More days a week. ► Cumulative risks increase your likelihood of experiencing negative consequences eventually.

11. Abstaining from Risk Behaviors ► Abstinence – Better to learn this word now…you will hear it a lot this semester! ► When you abstain from tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, you avoid many negative consequences like addiction, serious harm to the body and even death, social isolation, legal consequences. ► Abstaining from sexual activity helps you avoid worrying/dealing with unplanned pregnancy; Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV, emotional problems related to sexual activity – guilt, regret, rejection.