1. Unit 4: Achieving Wellness

2. Wellness
Wellness: A philosophy that encourages people to take responsibility for their own physical, emotional, and mental health.
Topics for this unit
Changing perceptions of beauty
Recognizing unhealthy eating patterns
Achieving a healthy body weight
Reducing fat in your diet
Strategies for achieving well being

3. Changing Perceptions of Beauty
Chapter 17
Changing Perceptions of Beauty

4. What is Body Image?
Body Image: A persons mental picture, thoughts, and feelings about his or her body.
Influences on Body Image
Changes in the body, specifically puberty
Cultural definition of beauty
Parental, peer, and media influences
Self-confidence, and self-esteem

5. Body Image and Self Concept
Self-Concept: The way you feel about yourself. Including your characteristics and your abilities
Self-Esteem: Part of your self concept that deals with how you judge yourself, and your self-worth .
Self-concept is often mistakenly based on weight and shape but it is much more
Self concept and body image are ever changing, and evolve as you grow
How you perceive your body changes influences how you feel about yourself

6. Positive and Negative Body Image
Positive Body Image: When you feel comfortable and satisfied with your body. You have positive thoughts and feel confident about your body
Negative Body Image: you dislike your body, weight, hair, skin colour, or any particular part of your body.
The factors that affect body image are the subject of this chapter

7. Basic Body Types
The three basic body types are determined mainly by genetics.
The basic types are:
Ectomorph
Lean Usually thin, tall
Little muscle or fat
Long arms and legs, few curves
Can eat a lot and not gain weight
Endomorph
Large frame
Wide hips
High percent of body fat
Trouble maintaining body weight
Mesomorph
Muscular body
Broad shoulders
Large bones lead to higher bodyweight

8. Factors That Shape Body Image
Adolescence, Puberty, and Body Image
Males grow wider chest and shoulders
Females round out at hips and develop breasts
These new changes can shape how an adolescent sees themselves
Many feel uncomfortable about their bodies
However as the grow and mature most people work through these insecurities.
Other influences
Parents, culture, peers.

9. What is Beautiful? The idea of beauty is subjective.
Different people find different things beautiful
However one main influence on what people perceive as beautiful is society/culture
A culture’s idea of what is beautiful changes over time.
People judge beauty in different areas
Face
Body
Personality
Interests
Social comparisons

10. Factors that Shape Body Image
Parents:
The first people a person interacts with
Parents might influence a child's body image through Direct Comments about eating, body, or weight.
Indirect influence: a child may be influenced by a parent who is always working out to try to lose weight.
Parents also influence children through their eating habits

11. Factors that Shape Body Image
Peers:
Can be direct or indirect
Can be both positive, and negative
Fat Talk: Discussions that center around body weight and image.
Mass Media:
Pictures, flyers, posters, billboards, music videos, and other ads bombard people with images of what they “should” look like.
These images can influence body image
75% of females on t.v are categorized as underwieght
5% are overweight.
20% are average body weight.