1. Influences on Health

3. Influences on Health
Target: I will be able to understand the different types of factors affecting one’s health.
Influences on Your Health:
1. Heredity-all the traits that are passed along biologically from both parents to child
Eye color, hair color, body size and type, etc.
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4. Basic Intellectual abilities Tendencies toward specific diseases
Ex: Diabetes, some cancers, asthma, high blood pressure, muscular dystrophy

5. Taking responsibility for your health and life
2. Behavior: The way you choose to act within your environment and inherited abilities.
Includes:
Taking responsibility for your health and life
Making positive choices and decisions
Wear Sunscreen
Exercise/Eat healthy
Avoid drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol
Replace batteries in smoke detectors
Ex: Practice Abstinence: Restraining oneself from indulging in something (Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol).

6. 3. Media: Advertisements, Commercials, Technology,. Music.
4. Environment: The sum total of your surroundings- Your family, where you grew up, where you live now, the conditions in which you leave, and all of your experiences.

7. Types of Environments
1. Physical Environment- Your physical environment can affect all areas of your health.
Positive Environmental Influences:
Parks, Jogging Paths, Recreational Facilities
Access to quality Health Care Facilities
Low crime Rates
Negative Environmental Influences:
Quality of air and water
Exposure to: Radiation, the sun, toxic waste, diseases, asbestos, lead, carbon monoxide, and loud noises.
High Crime Rates
Poor Access to Medical Care

8. 2. Social Environment
Includes:
Eating habits
Hygiene habits
Ability to share feelings
Peer pressure (smoking, drugs, alcohol use, sex)

9. Eating habits, Alcohol use Preferred Language Traditions, Religion
3. Cultural Environment: the arts, beliefs, and customs that make up a way of life for a group of people; passed from generation to generation.
Includes:
Eating habits, Alcohol use
Preferred Language
Traditions, Religion
Values: a person's principles or standards of behavior; what’s important in life.
Summary:

10. Influences on Me
1. Choose one of the 4 influences on Health (Heredity, Behavior, Media, Environment).
2. Draw an advertisement or cartoon depicting how it affects your health?
*Use a minimum of 4 colors*
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