Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle

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Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle

• Chapter 1
• Lesson 2 pg 10-16

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Objectives

• Promoting a healthy Lifestyle
• Objective 1 Demonstrate how to take
• responsibility for your
  health.
• Objective 2 Analyze how influences such as
• heredity, environment,
  culture, media,
• and technology impact
  health.
• Objective 3 compare how health messages are
• delivered through media
  and
• technology.

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Activity

• List the top six things, you feel, have the
  biggest influence on your health.

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Text Book Answers

• 1 Attitude
• 2 Behavior
• 3 Heredity
• 4 Environment
• 5 Media
• 6 Technology

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Influences on your health

• Heredity
• Biological traits
• Environment
• Physical environment (where you live)
• Ex Safety, security, cleanliness, etc.
• Social environment
• Ex family, friends and peers
• Culture
• - Traditions, beliefs and customs

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Influences Continued

• Attitude
• The way you view situations
• Behavior
• Choices, changes, practices and habits

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Other influences

• Media
• Radio, television, newspapers, internet, books,
  and magazines
• Technology
• Advancements in medical screening and treatment
  or various diseases, advancements in creating a
  cleaner environment (air, water, land)

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Controllable vs. Uncontrollable

• Of the six influences, which are controllable and
  which are not?
• What does this mean?

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Health Triangle

• Physical
• Mental/Emotional
• Social

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Physical Health

• How well our body functions
• Cope with stress
• Resist disease
• Avoid injury

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Good Habits for maintaining physical health

• Getting enough sleep each night
• Meeting nutritional needs
• Maintaining optimal levels of physical fitness
• Not abusing drugs (including legal/illegal,
  alcohol, tobacco)
• Identifying and avoiding risks and risky
  behaviors
• Using health care systems appropriately

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Mental/Emotional Health

• How well you feel about yourself, and how you
  view yourself and your abilities
• How often do you accept responsibility for your
  actions?
• Are you in touch with your feelings, and able to
  express them appropriately?
• How well do you avoid dwelling on negatives, and
  focus on positives instead?

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Social Health

• The ways in which you interact with and get along
  with others
• Your ability to make and keep friends
• How well you seek and lend support
• How you show respect toward others

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Activity

• Why do you think it is important to keep your
  health balanced, based on the Health Triangle?
• Give some examples of how over-emphasizing or
  under-emphasizing one area could negatively
  affect an individuals health.

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Interactive study guide

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