1. Chapter 1: Your Health and Wellness

2. Key Terms to define in your notes
Health *Peers
Wellness *Culture
Lifestyle factors *Risk factors
Prevention * Values
Health education *Abstinence
Health literacy *health skills
Heredity * communication
Environment
Refusal Skills
Self esteem
Stress
Goals
Action plan

3. Defining Health/ 3 elements of your health
Being healthy means striving to be the best you can be at any given time.
The 3 elements of your health are Physical, Mental/Emotional, and Social.

4. Physical Health
Physical health is the way the parts and systems of you body work together.
Your body’s ability to cope with stress.
The strength and energy to pursue physical, mental, and social challenges and changes
To gain or maintain it you need to have proper nutrition, regular exercise, and get enough sleep.

5. Mental Health
Includes your feelings about yourself, how well you relate to others, how well you meet the demands of daily life.
Mental health calls for a person to use his or her mind to develop thinking skills.
See mistakes as opportunities to learn, grow, and change.
You enjoy learning and strive for information.

6. Emotional Health
A person with good emotional health is in touch with his or her feelings and expresses them in appropriate, healthful ways.
Avoid dwelling on negative thoughts. Use positive thoughts to move through challenges.
You are emotional healthy when the feelings you experience are appropriate responses to events.
To maintain your emotional health, you need to take time to relax and share your feelings with others or in a journal.

7. Social Health How you get along with others.
When you are socially healthy you have loving relationships, respect the rights of others, and give and accept help.
Social health doesn’t just happen you have to work at getting involved with others at school, in your community, and build strong relationships with members of your family.

8. How do the 3 elements of health tie into the health triangle?
When one side receives too much or too little attention, the other sides change as well. The triangle can become lopsided. To be truly healthy you need to try to keep all 3 sides balanced.

9. Health Continuum Many people function below the wellness midpoint.
Many of the choices you make on a daily basis affect your position on the health continuum.

10. Draw a line across a sheet of paper. Put a dot at each end of the line
Draw a line across a sheet of paper. Put a dot at each end of the line. The beginning of the line represents birth. Place 10 year increments from birth till death. At the end of the line put the number of years you wish to live.
Birth

11. Now take off the following number of years for the following habits:
Smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day~ 8 years
Drinking alcohol 3 or more ounces a week~ 10 years
Overeating (more than 2500 calories per day)~ 5 years
Eating too much fat (pork, beef, cheese) in your diet~ 5 years
Eating lots of sugar~ 8 years
Not exercising at least 3 times a week~ 10 years
Being overweight~ 10 years
Having lots of stress in your life~ 7 years
So living to 95 suddenly changes to living to 39!!!

12. Lifestyle Factors: these 7 habits help with a person’s overall happiness and longevity (how long they live)
1. Get 7-8 hours of sleep
2. Eat nutritious foods from various food groups
3. Refrain from smoking and using tobacco products.
4. Do minutes of vigrous physical activity 3 times a week.
5. Do not use drugs or alcohol.
6. Maintain recommended weight.

14. Why is health education important?
It’s not just learning about health facts, its goal is to give students the tools needed to achieve and maintain total well being. It’s about gaining health literacy.
** Health literacy is the capacity to obtain, interpret, and understand basic health information and services.

16. Influences on your health…
Heredity: you can not only inherit physical traits (hair color, eye color, shape of your nose) from you parents, but you could also inherit intellectual abilities, tendencies toward specific diseases

17. Environment: can be broken down into physical, social, and cultural.
Physical environment can affect all 3 elements of your health.
Do you live in a neighborhood where there are parks, clean and safe streets, high crime rate, hospitals near by, smog, etc.
Physical is where your house is, type of neighborhood, part of the country.

18. Social Environment
Includes your family and other people with whom you come in contact with daily.
Peers are a part of your social environment. What is peer pressure?
If you grow up in a household with unhealthful social environment you can suffer from poor mental and emotional health.

19. Cultural Environment
Culture is the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.
This group may be an ethnic group, a community, a nation, or even an entire section of the globe.
The language you speak at home, the foods your prefer to eat, the traditions and religion you practice are all part of your cultural environment. Another example would be how you show your emotions. In some cultures PDA is typical; in others people tend to keep their emotions private.

20. Other factors that influence your health..
Media~ tv, music, video games, movies, newspapers, magazines. An average teen spends 20 hours a week watching T.V. It can be positive because you may receive useful information from public service announcements, you might also learn about a medical issue.
How can it be negative? You are not out exercising, you are not relating to other family members or taking part in community activities.

21. Taking Charge of Your Health
Accepting responsibility for your own health and for the health of others is a positive step towards overall wellness
Risk Factors:
Actions or behaviors that represent a potential health threat

22. 6 Categories of Risk Factors
1. Behaviors that contribute to injury
2. Tobacco use
3. Alcohol and other drug use
4. Sexual behaviors
5. Unhealthy eating behaviors
6. Physical inactivity

23. Cumulative Risks
Risks that increase gradually and may add up to a consequence that is worse than expected.
Example:
Driving over speed limit without a seat belt on or eating too much fast food.

24. Protective Factors
When certain “protective factors” are present in a teen’s life, the amount of at-risk behaviors decrease substantially.
Some protective factors include:

25. Support and Encouragement from family and friends Positive Role Models
Positive Values
Beliefs and standards of conduct that you find important
ABSTINENCE
Voluntarily choosing not to do something