Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle Chapter 1 Lesson #2 pg 10-16

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.

Activity List the top six things, you feel, have the biggest influence on your health.

Text Book Answers: 1 – Attitude 2 – Behavior 3 – Heredity 4 – Environment 5 – Media 6 – Technology

Influences on your health Heredity – Biological traits Environment – Physical environment (where you live) Ex: Safety, security, cleanliness, etc. – Social environment Ex: family, friends and peers Culture - Traditions, beliefs and customs

Influences Continued… Attitude The way you view situations Behavior Choices, changes, practices and habits

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)

Controllable vs. Uncontrollable Of the six influences, which are controllable and which are not? What does this mean?

Health Triangle Physical Mental/Emotional Social

Physical Health How well our body functions – Cope with stress – Resist disease – Avoid injury

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

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?

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

Activity Why do you think it is important to keep your health balanced, based on the “Health Triangle”? Give some examples of how over- emphasizing or under-emphasizing one area could negatively affect an individuals health.

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