Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle

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Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle

• Lesson 2

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Topic Influences on your health

• DO NOW get in groups and on a blank piece of
  paper
• 1. Explain the health continuum
• 2. List 10 things that can affect your health.
• 3. What situations and people have affected your
  health at three different stages of your lives?

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Your Health Triangle

• There are 3 elements of health
• Physical
• Mental/Emotional
• Social

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Challenge

• Of the 10 things you listed that affect your
  health, which of these are you in control of?

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Positive Health Factors

• 1. Getting 8-9 hours of sleep every night
• 2. Starting each day with a healthy breakfast
• 3. Eating a variety of nutritious foods each day
• 4. Being physically active for 30-60 minutes most
  days of the week
• 5. Maintaining a healthy weight
• 6. Abstaining from smoking or using other tobacco
  products
• 7. Abstaining from the use of alcohol and drugs

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Lesson Objectives

• What else influences your health besides your own
  choices?

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Influences on your Health

• Heredity
• Environment-
• Physical and Social
• Culture
• Attitude
• Behavior
• Media
• Technology

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Influences on your health

• Heredity
• All the traits that were biologically pass on to
  you from your parents.
• Physical traits eye color, hair color, height
• Physical health specific genes may put you at
  risk for certain illness or strengthen your
  resistance to disease.
• Heredity can also influence your personality and
  basic intellectual abilities and talents.

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• Genes and Your enviroment

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Influences on your Health

• Environment
• The sum of your surroundings, including your
  family, your neighborhood, your school, your job,
  and your life experiences.
• All places that you go to in a given day
• Physical conditions in which you live
• All people in your life
• Your culture

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Physical Environment

• Influences every aspect of your health.
• How can where you live affect your health???
• City vs suburb?
• Country vs Industrial area?
• Rural area vs City
• (Health care availablity?)

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Physical Environment

• Crime rate - STRESS
• Pollution
• Pollen
• Dust
• Smog

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Social Environment

• Family and people you come into contact with each
  day
• Positive social environment can help a person
  develop POSITIVE values, a commitment to
  learning, and confidence in future success.

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Social Enviroment

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Social Environment

• Peers
• People of the same age who share similar
  interests.
• Loyal and supportive friends have a positive
  effect on your health
• Peers who take part in dangerous activities can
  have a negative effect on your health

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Influences on your Health

• Culture
• The collective beliefs and behaviors of a group.
• Ethnic
• Community
• Nation
• Language
• Food
• Traditions
• Religion
• Understanding culture can help you know yourself
  better and be tolerant of others

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Influences on your Health

• Attitude
• The way you view situations your attitude
  greatly affects the choices you make.
• Attitude can play a major role in health and
  wellness
• You can Always control you attitude!!!
• A positive attitude Positive health!

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Truth

• Studies shown that people who tend to see the
  positive in situations are more likely to have
  better health that those who see only the negative

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Influence on your Health

• Behavior
• You have no control over your heredity and
  limited control over your environment, you have a
  great deal of control over you behavior.
• Example?
• family has a history of heart disease
• Mastering a new skill
• Conflict resolution

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Influence on your Health

• Media
• The various methods of communication information
• Radio
• Television
• Film
• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Books
• Internet
• Media plays a major role in shaping public
  opinion

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Influences on your Health

• Technology
• Technology advances also influence health.
  Technology has impacted the health status of
  individuals, families, communities, and the
  world.
• Medical screenings
• Treatment for diseases
• Help keep our air, land, and water clean
• Technology has hurt our health by replacing many
  of our physical activities that were once part of
  daily life.

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Apply the Information

• Select the side of your health triangle that you
  think is most affected by personal behavior.
• Explain your choice.