How much do you know about health and healthy behaviors?

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How much do you know about health and healthy
behaviors?

• Teens need more sleep than adults do.
• Being an effective communicator can improve your
  overall health
• The health decisions that you make as a teen have
  little impact on your health as an adult

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• Two 10 minute walks provide nearly the same
  health benefits as a continuous 20 minute walk.
• Water is a nutrient.
• Setting goals can only help you achieve long term
  accomplishments, such as establishing a career.
• Acne flare-ups are a result of eating chocolate
  and greasy foods.

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• Tanning beds are safe because they use UVA light,
  which doesnt cause burns.
• All stress is negative and should be avoided.
• The relationships you have with your family,
  friends, and peers do not affect your physical
  health.

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What is Health?

• Health is the combination of physical,
  mental/emotional, and social well-being.

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Health is not an absolute state.

• Being healthy doesnt mean that you will never be
  sick.
• Instead, being healthy means striving to be the
  best you can be at any given time.

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The Health Continuum

• Health is dynamic, or subject to constant change
• ExampleYou may be in perfect health today, but
  in tonight's ball game you sprain your ankle.
• Loss of Health
  
  Improved Health
• and Wellness
  
  and Wellness
• -------------------------(Center)-----------------
  ----------
• Premature Chronic Lack of
  
  Free from aches Moderate level
  Optimal Level
• Death Disorders Energy
  
  and pains
  of energy of energy

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What is wellness?

• Wellness is an overall state of well being, or
  total health.
• Wellness comes from the way you live each day and
  decisions you make based on health knowledge and
  healthful attitudes.

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Lifestyle Factors

• Lifestyle factors are personal behaviors related
  to the way a person lives.
• Take the lifestyle questionnaire.
• yes 3pts sometimes 2pts no 1pt

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How is your lifestyle?

• 24 points or higher Excellent lifestyle
• 23 19 pts Good lifestylemaybe make a couple
  of changes.
• 18 pts and below Need to make changes

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Wellness and Prevention

• Prevention- practicing health and safety habits
  to remain free of disease and injury.

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Health Education

• Health educationthe providing of accurate health
  information to help people make healthy choices.
• The goal of health education is to give people
  the tools they need to help them live long,
  energetic, and productive lives.

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Healthy People 2010

• Is a nationwide health promotion and disease
  prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for
  improving the health of all people in the United
  States.

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Healthy People 2010

• Two Main goals
• Increase quality and years of healthy life for
  all Americans.
• Remove health differences that result from
  factors such as gender, race, education,
  disability, and location.

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• As more individuals take charge of their own
  wellness, the more global health will improve.
  Individuals, Families, and Communities each have
  a role to play
• Individuals take an active role in your own
  health. Make informed decisions, access reliable
  health care information and services, and promote
  health of others.

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• Families Shape the attitudes and beliefs that
  result in healthful behaviors. Parents teach
  their children the values and skills necessary to
  maintain good health.
• Communities can offer behavior changing classes
  such as tobacco-cessation programs and provide
  health services. They can also take steps to
  ensure a safe environment.

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Health Literacy

• Health Literacy is a persons capacity to learn
  about and understand basic health information and
  services and use these resources to promote his
  or her health and wellness.

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A Health Literate individual needs to be

• A critical thinker and problem solver.
• A responsible, productive citizen.
• A self-directed learner.
• An effective communicator.

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• Lesson 2
• Promoting a Healthy
• Lifestyle

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Promoting A Healthy Lifestyle

• Your Health Triangle
• Physical Health- Your physical health has to do
  with how well your body functions
• Mental/Emotional Health-Your feelings about
  yourself, how well you meet the demands of daily
  life, and your ability to process information are
  all important parts of your mental/emotional
  health

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• Social Health Your social health involves the
  way you get along with others. It includes your
  ability to get and keep friends and to work and
  play cooperative ways, seeking and lending
  support when necessary.

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Influences on Your Health

• Heredity All traits that were biologically
  passed on to you from your parents.
• Environment The sum of your surroundings,
  including your family, your neighborhood, your
  school, your job, and your life experiences.
• Peers People of the same age who share similar
  interest.
• Culture Collective beliefs, customs, and
  behaviors of a group.

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Influences on Your Health (Continued)

• Attitude The way you view situations.
• Behavior How you act. You have no control of
  your heredity and only limited control of your
  environment, you have a great deal of control
  over your behavior.
• Media The various methods of communication
  information, including radio, television, movies,
  newspapers, magazines, books, and internet.

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• Lesson 3
• Your Behavior and Reducing
• Health Risks

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Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks

• Quick Start Draw and label a health triangle on
  a sheet of paper. For each side of the triangle,
  identify two decisions you have made during the
  past few days that could affect your health.
  Place a ( plus) by those decisions that were
  healthful and a (- minus) by those that could
  have been harmful.

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Risk Behaviors

• Risk Behaviors Actions that can potentially
  threaten your health or the health of others.
• Youth Risk Behaviors
• 1. Alcohol and other drugs
• 2. Tobacco use
• 3. Sexual behaviors that contribute to
  unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted
  diseases.
• 4. Unhealthy dietary behaviors
• 5. Physical inactivity

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Risk Behaviors (Continued)

• Cumulative Risks Related risks that increase
  in effect with each added risk.
• Example smoking one cigarette is not likely to
  result in death. However, if the person
  continues to smoke the negative effects
  accumulate and lead to serious health
  consequences.

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Abstaining from Risk Behaviors

• Abstinence Avoid harmful behaviors.
• Abstaining from tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs
• Abstaining from sexual activity
• Never have to worry about unplanned pregnancy
• Will not be faced with the difficult decisions
  associated with unplanned pregnancy, such as
  being a single parent.
• Will not have to take on the many
  responsibilities of caring for a child
• Dont have to worry about sexually transmitted
  infections
• Are free of the emotional problems that usually
  accompany sexual activity, such as guilt, regret,
  and rejection
• Are making a choice that is always legal.