What Affects Your Health

Objectives: Influences on your health Objective 1: Analyze how influences such as heredity, environment, attitude, Behavior, media, and technology impact health. Objective 2: Demonstrate how to take responsibility for your health.

Influences on your health Heredity: Refers to all the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents. Discussions: – What physical traits did you inherit from your parents? – What health influence (conditions) did you / could you inherit from your parents?

Influences on your health continued Environment: The sum of your surroundings, including where you live and the people who make up your world. – Physical environment – Social environment (family & peers) - Culture (beliefs, customs & behaviors) Attitude The way you view situations Behavior (you have total control over this) You can lower your risks by practicing healthy habits

Influences on your health continued Media & Technology Some messages may be positive and some may be negative. HOW?? -Positive achievements, contributing money, helping others Internet: How might this be positive and/or negative? -Using drugs/alcohol, not facing consequences for behaviors