2. What Affects Your Health (1:43) Click here to launch video Click here to download print activity

3. Heredity – Pg. 11 Environment – Pg. 12 Peers – Pg. 13 Culture – Pg. 13 Media – Pg. 14 Technology – Pg. 14 Do Now: Pick 3 Words and write down the definition.

4. Assessment Review C1 Lesson 1 Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary 1.Define the word health. Health is the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.

5. Assessment Review C1 Lesson 1 Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary 2.List important steps you can take to promote your physical health. Sample answers: Get enough sleep; eat nutritious foods and drink plenty of water.

6. Assessment Review C1 Lesson 1 Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary 3.What is the health continuum? Describe the continuum’s endpoints. The health continuum is a sliding scale that allows you to assess your health status.

7. Today’s Objectives Explain how heredity can impact your health. Identify 3 different environments AND provide an example of each. Explain the difference between media and technology.

8. Understanding how heredity, environment, and other factors affect your health can help you make healthy decisions.

9. Influences on Your Health Heredity, environment, attitude, behavior, media, and technology can all influence your health. Understanding these influences will help you make informed decisions about your health.

10. Influences on Your Health heredity physical environment social environment culture attitude behavior the media

11. Heredity Your heredity influences your health. Ask your parent or grandparent questions about what health conditions and diseases run in your family. Heredity All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents

12. Environment Your environment includes The physical places in which you live. The people who make up your world. The culture you live in. Environment The sum of your surroundings

13. Physical Environment school safety neighborhood safety Environmental Factors that Affect Your Health water quality air quality availability of recreational facilities availability of parks access to medical care availability of libraries cleanliness of your surroundings

14. Social Environment Your social environment is made up of all the people around you, including your family and peers. Peers People of the same age who share similar interests.

15. Social Environment Peers can have a positive or a negative influence on you.

16. Culture Your culture can influence your health. Your culture may include the language you speak, the foods you eat, your spiritual beliefs, and the traditions you practice. Culture The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group

17. Attitude Your attitude is the way you view situations. It can have a big effect on your health. Optimists are usually in better health than pessimists.

18. Behavior You have total control over your own behaviors. You can choose to avoid high-risk behaviors in favor of healthful behaviors, like choosing low-fat, nutritious foods and participating in daily physical activity.

19. Media and Technology The constant presence of media messages has a significant influence on your decisions. Media The various methods for communicating information

20. Media and Technology Media content is delivered via technology and through print media, like newspapers and magazines. Technology Radio, television, and the Internet

21. Media and Technology For valid health information, stick to Web sites that have.gov and.edu in their addresses, or sites maintained by professional health organizations.

22. Understanding Your Influences You can take control of your health by understanding the factors that influence it. Understanding these influences and committing to a healthy lifestyle are the first steps toward achieving and maintaining wellness.

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24. Exit Ticket 1. The media is a powerful influence because it: a. encourages teens to live healthy lives. b. is constantly present. c. provides healthy role models. d. warns the audience of risk behaviors. 2. Pick one specific type of environment, then explain how it can affect your health.

25. 3. T or F: A person’s ethnicity, religion, and language are part of her peers. 4. What technique can you use to locate valid health information on the Internet? a. Find sites that are the most popular. b. Use only sites belonging to manufacturers of health care products. c. Locate sites that use.gov or.edu in their addresses. d. All of the above.

26. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary 1.What does heredity mean? Heredity is all the traits biologically passed on to you by your parents.

27. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary 2.Define environment. Identify three types of environment. Environment is all the things that surround you. It includes the physical and social environments. Culture is also a part of the social environment.

28. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary 3.List two ways that media and technology may influence your health. Sample answers: Celebrities or other media figures may be role models that you want to emulate; media creates a set of norms for how people behave; the Internet may provide incorrect health information.