1. HEALTH TRIANGLE

2. SIDES OF THE WELLNESS TRIANGLE
Mental Health – feelings about yourself
Social Health – how you get along with others
Physical Health - how your body systems work together

3. MENTAL HEALTH
How you relate to others, how well you meet the demands of everyday life,
Develop thinking skills
See mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow
Accept responsibility for your actions
Stand up for beliefs and values
In touch with your feelings and express them appropriately
Can deal with frustrations and disappointment
Don’t dwell on negative thoughts

4. SOCIAL HEALTH Ability to make and keep friends
Work and play in cooperative ways
Can seek and lend support when you need to
Show RESPECT for yourself
Good communication

5. PHYSICAL HEALTH Can cope with stresses of everyday life
Need proper nutrition
Regular physical activity
Enough rest and sleep
Practice good hygiene
Regular medical and dental check-ups
Resisting harmful substances

6. WELLNESS
All three sides of the triangle must be balanced to be considered in good health standing.
When all three sides are balanced, that is considered wellness.
3 equal sides
3 uneven sides

7. WELLNESS CONTINUUM
A way of living each day that includes choices and decisions based on healthy attitudes.
Health and Wellness Continuum (pg 7)
List your favorite activities or hobbies.
Get into groups of three and then put them into the three categories of wellness.

8. WHAT CAN WELLNESS AFFECT?
How you look, feel, act
Attitudes
School, Work and Recreation Performance
How you feel about YOURSELF
How successful your relationships are
Determines your goals AND your ability to accomplish them

9. STEPS TO RESPONSIBLE HEALTH
Determine how much you know about your health
Obtain accurate information about how to stay healthy or IMPROVE your health
Take action!!!
What are YOUR strengths and weaknesses???
Pair up and discuss, then we will go around the room and your PARTNER will say one of your strengths AND one of your weaknesses

10. LIFESTYLE FACTORS
Personal behaviors and habits that are related to how a person lives, which can determine their level of health.
7-8 hours of sleep per night
Eat nutritious food from each food group each day (balanced daily diet)
Refrain from tobacco products
Eat breakfast daily
20-30 minutes of nonstop vigorous activity 3x’s per week
Do not use alcohol or drugs
Maintain recommended weight

11. In order to practice good health habits you need to believe that there is some benefit for you.
OPTIMISTS ARE LESS LIKELY TO SUFFER ILLNESS AND DIE YOUNG THAN PESSIMISTS. SEE THE POSITIVE!!!

12. WHAT ARE SOME BENEFITS OF BEING FIT???
At ease with yourself
More confident and self-assured
Emotionally stable
Future success
Confidence

13. THINGS THAT CAN AFFECT YOUR LEVEL OF HEALTH
Heredity
Behavior
Environment
Physical
Social
Cultural
How do each of these things affect your health and wellness??

14. HEREDITY
All the traits and properties that are passed along biologically from both parents to a child.
Disease can be hereditary!!!
Think of things that “run in your family” these are aspects of your health that you want to pay CLOSE attention to…heart disease, diabetes, cancer…

15. ENVIRONMENT
SOCIAL  family and people you come into daily contact with
PEERS….PEER PRESSURE (trying to fit in and become part of the group)
CULTURAL  beliefs, customs and behaviors of a group.
Understanding different cultures may improve your SOCIAL health
PHYSICAL  air quality, area you live in, medical care, immunizations
Can contribute to your sense of WELLBEING

16. BEHAVIOR
Is the aspect of your life that you have the most CONTROL over
This is the way you CHOOSE to act within your environment
Think of things that “run in your family”….how can you change or control whether or not that happens to you???