Living a Healthy Life

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Living a Healthy Life

• Lessons Two Three
• Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
• Pgs 10-25

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The Health Triangle

• Physical Health
• Mental/Emotional Health
• Social Health

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Physical Health

• How well your body functions
• Energy for daily activities
• Cope with challenges and stresses
• Resist disease
• Avoid Injury

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Mental Emotional Health

• Feelings about self
• Meet demands of life
• Information processing
• Enjoy challenges
• Learning new things
• Learn from mistakes
• Accept responsibility for actions

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Social Health

• Getting along with others
• Make and keep friends
• Cooperative with others
• Seek and lend support
• Good communication
• Respecting and caring for self and others

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Influences on Health

• Heredity-traits passed biologically from parents
• Environment-sum of your surroundings (family,
  school, life experiences)
• Culture-collective beliefs/behaviors of a group
• Attitude-the way you view situations
• Behavior-your actions
• Media-radio, T.V., newspapers, etc
• Technology-affects medicine, environment, etc.

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Understanding Health Risks

• Risk behaviors are actions that could threaten
  your health or others

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Teen Risk Behaviors

• Behaviors contributing to injury
• Tobacco use
• Alcohol and drug use
• Sexual behaviors
• Unhealthy dietary behaviors
• Physical inactivity

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Cumulative Risks

• Related risks that increase in effect with each
  added risk (repeated behaviors or combination
  behaviors)

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Abstaining from Risk Behaviors

• Abstinence is avoiding harmful behaviors such as
• 1. Abstaining from tobacco, alcohol, drugs
• 2. Abstaining from sexual activity