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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Text book Activity

• Partner up with the person next to you (or behind
  you) to complete the activity.
• List the top six influences on your health.

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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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Influences on your health

• Heredity
• Biological traits
• Environment
• Physical environment
• Social environment (peers)
• Culture

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What aspects do you have the most control over?

• Attitude
• The way you view situations
• Behavior
• You can lower your risks by practicing healthy
  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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Answers

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