Understanding Health & Wellness Chapter 1 Lessons 1,2,3 Understanding Health & Wellness - Health & Wellness - Promoting Healthy Lifestyle - Reducing Health Risks

Lesson Objective Students will be able to understand ways that healthful behaviors and decisions can promote wellness and will be able to describe types of factors that can influence health.

Setting Up Journal Date (write it for each question!) What does it mean to be healthy? What are some everyday decisions teens face that can affect their health? 2. 3. 4.

2 journal Entries Per page…draw a line to separate the entries #1 To be healthy means……… #2 2 journal Entries Per page…draw a line to separate the entries

What can impact your health?

Health – is the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social wellbeing. HEALTH CONTINUUMN

Wellness – balance / total health Health Triangle (p 7) 3 Parts of Health Physical Health – body functions - exercise, food, 2) Mental/Emotional Health- feelings & thoughts - coping, emotions, *spiritual health – deep seated sense of meaning and purpose 3) Social Health – way get along with others - friends, communication Wellness – balance / total health

Influence on your Health Can control and Can’t control 1) Heredity – all the traits that are biological (Good or Bad) 2) Environment – is the sum of your surroundings - physical environment - social environment - culture- customs and behaviors of a group 3)Attitude- way you view situations 4) Behavior – how you act 5) Media & Technology – media – various methods of communicating. Info delivered via technology (radio, tv, internet) .gov and .org (professional organizations) Website check health info

Part of environment

Lack of Physical Activity Behaviors result injury Protective Factor – taking action to reduce your exposure to health risks Risk Behaviors– actions that threaten your health Center for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC) Risk Behaviors in Teens Tobacco use Alcohol & drugs Sexual behaviors Poor Diet Lack of Physical Activity Behaviors result injury

Write a Protective Factor and Risk Factor For each Influence on your Health Heredity – (+) Grandparents living to 90 (-) breast cancer in family 2) Environment – (+) good school system (-) poor family life 3)Attitude- (+) positive thing will work out (-) poor attitude 4) Behavior – (+) exercise (-) drugs 5) Media /Technology (+) new health information (-) negative characters in TV

Teen risk taking

Reduce Risks More positive health behaviors – good for you Prevention – taking steps to keep something from happening

PARTNER RULES for comic strip 1. Look at your partner when they are talking. 2. Don’t let other things distract you. 3. Let your partner express their views. 4. Stay focused on the question/task. 5. Say more than one or two words. 6. Use one paper for scrap paper and one for the good copy!