Food Science

What is wellness?  Wellness: state of being in good health  Quality of life: refers to a persons satisfaction with his or her looks, lifestyle, and responses to daily events.  There is a direct corolation with wellness and quality of life.  Most people want to continually improve their quality of life.

Wellness Continuum (see image on pg 11)  Use continuum to define your personal state of wellness.  Premature Death (at one end) and Optimum Health (at the far other)  Premature Death: death that occurs due to lifestyle behaviors that lead to a fatal accident or the formation of an avoidable disease.  Optimum health: state of wellness characterized by peak physical, mental, and social well-being.  Your health status depends where you place yourself on the continuum.

Wellness Continuum (see image on pg 11)  If you are already at optimum health, you want to find a way to maintain this state.  Having optimum health will help you face the challenges of parenthood, career changes, and other aspects of active adult living.

Aspects of Wellness  Physical Health  Mental Health  Social Health  Holistic Approach to Wellness

Physical Health  Physical Health: refers to the fitness of your body  Factors that can affect physical health: Getting too little rest Eating too much or too fast/eating too little Lack of physical activity Excessive Stress, Poor Sanitation, Recklessness, etc.  Health care professionals use medicine, physical therapy, diet and surgery to help people reach optimum health  Doctors often suggest patients combining medical care with lifestyle changes.

Mental Health  Mental Health: related to the way you feel about yourself, your life, and the world around you.  People with good mental health generally like themselves for who they are. They have positive attitudes and tend to act according to a socially acceptable set of rules.  Irrational fears, stress, and depression may be signs of a mental health problem.  If you are concerned about your mental health, you should talk to a trusted adult.  Building effective communication and problem solving skills can go a long way toward helping you improve your mental health

Social Health  Social Health: describes the way you get along with other people.  Learning to resolve conflicts with others is an important skill that can help you achieve and maintain good social health.  Related to an understanding and acceptance of roles  Learning appropriate ways to act in each role can contribute to your social wellness  Affects a person’s outlook on life and his or her personal state of wellness  Building social skills allows you to improve your social health. Learning to use good communication to resolve conflicts with others

Holistic Approach to Wellness  Holistic medicine: approach to health care that focuses on all aspects of patient care- physical, mental, and social  Need to be aware of your physical, mental, and social health needs  Mange time, money, and other resources to address your needs in all these areas  Taking a holistic approach to wellness means making choices that fit together to promote all facets of health

Factors that Contribute to Disease  Risk factor: characteristic or behavior that influences a person’s chance of being injured or getting a disease.  Certain lifestyle habits, environmental conditions, and health care limitations are known to be risk factors you control  Unhealthful Lifestyle Choices  Poor Environmental Quality Environmental Quality: refers to the state of the physical world around you. Relates to the safety of the water you drink, the air you breathe, etc.

Factors that Contribute to Disease (Continued)  Inadequate Health Care Diagnosis: the identification of a disease  Heredity 25% of the factors that contribute to leading causes of death are hereditary. (Beyond your control)

Health Promoting Choices  Choose a Healthful Lifestyle Diet: refers to all the foods and beverages you consume.  Negative Peer Pressure Peer Pressure: the influence people in your age and social group have on your behavior  Improve Your Environment  Choose Quality Health Care

Make a Change  Changing your behavior can affect all aspects of your health.

Nutrition and Wellness  Nutrition: sum of the processes by which a person takes in and uses food  Nutrients: basic components of food that nourish the body (over 45 nutrients are needed in your diet)

Scientific Method  Process researchers use to find answers to their questions. 3 Steps Make observations State a hypothesis: Suggested answer to your scientific question Devise experiments to test the hypothesis if it is true. Copy Chart Theory: principle that tries to explain something that happens in nature