1. Staying Healthy and Safe
Chapter 11
Staying Healthy and Safe
Lesson 11.1
It’s Your Health

2. What it takes to be healthy
Discover
What it takes to be healthy
What stress is and how you can deal with it

3. Why It’s Important
When you are healthy, you are able to do what you need and want to do. Good health is a solid foundation for success in all areas of your life, including a future career.

4. health nutrients Food Guide Pyramid sedentary hygiene Key Terms
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5. Key Terms
eating disorder
addiction
stress

6. Making Healthful Choices
When you care about yourself, you take care of yourself.

7. Making Healthful Choices
Making healthful choices is part of taking care of yourself.
Health is the condition of both your body and your mind.

8. Making Healthful Choices
When you’re healthy, you have the physical and mental energy you need to do things.

9. Healthful Eating Take a close look at your eating habits.
You may not be eating enough.

10. Healthful Eating What you are eating may not contain enough nutrients.
Nutrients are the substances in food that the body needs to produce energy and stay healthy.

11. Healthful Eating
The U.S. Department of Agriculture created the Food Guide Pyramid as a guideline for the nutrients you need each day.

12. Graphic Organizer Food Guide Pyramid Fats, Oils, and Sweets Milk Group
USE SPARINGLY
Milk Group
TEENS: 3-4 SERVINGS
ADULTS: 2-3 SERVINGS
Meat and Beans Group
2-3 SERVINGS
Vegetable Group
3-5 SERVINGS
Fruit Group
2-4 SERVINGS
Grains Group
6-11 SERVINGS

13. Exercise for Life
Exercise helps you feel better physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Exercise makes you more alert and less anxious.

14. Exercise for Life
Exercise is very important if you have a sedentary job.
A sedentary job is one in which you spend much of your time sitting.

15. Exercise for Life
Exercising for 20 minutes three times a week can do wonders for your health.
Make exercise a regular part of your life now.

16. Time for Sleep Sleep restores the body and recharges the brain.
If you’re feeling sleepy, your body’s telling you that you need more sleep.

17. Time for Sleep
Try to go to bed about the same time each night and get up around the same time each day.
Avoid foods and drinks that contain caffeine.

18. Protecting Your Health
One way to protect your health is to get regular medical checkups.

19. Protecting Your Health
It is important to practice good hygiene and guard against eating disorders and addictions.

20. Protecting Your Health
Hygiene is all the things you do to be clean and healthy.
It includes taking regular care of yourself, washing and grooming, and wearing clean clothes.

21. Protecting Your Health
An eating disorder is a pattern of extreme eating behavior over time.
Eating disorders can lead to serious illness or death.

22. Protecting Your Health
Addiction is a physical or psychological need for a substance.

23. Protecting Your Health
Addiction affects every part of your life, including your relationships and your work at school or on the job.

24. Protecting Your Health
Addiction is a serious health risk, but recovery is possible.
Support groups help many people who are recovering from addiction.

25. Handling Stress
Stress is the mental and physical tension that is the body’s natural response to conflict.

26. Good Stress, Bad Stress Stress isn’t always a bad thing.
The kind of stress you feel before or during a big event tells you that what you are doing is important to you.

27. Good Stress, Bad Stress
Stress can help you do a good job or get through an event.
When the challenge is over, the stress goes away.

28. Good Stress, Bad Stress Sometimes, stress stays with you.
You may feel worried, fearful, or distracted.
This kind of stress can wear you out.

29. How to Cope Identify the cause of the stress.
Then deal with the problem directly.
Relaxation techniques are helpful in stressful situations.

30. Graphic Organizer Relaxation Techniques Breathe Deeply Visualize
Slowly fill your lungs with air and count to 10. Slowly release.
Breathe
Deeply
Picture yourself in a peaceful place, away from the stressful situation.
Visualize
Get away from the stressful situation for a while.
Take a
Time-Out
Share
your
feelings
with a
friend, family
member, or
other person
you trust.
Vent

31. Attitude Counts
Accepting Criticism
Learning new skills sometimes means accepting constructive criticism. If a teacher or supervisor offers constructive criticism, she or he is trying to help you learn.

32. Critical Thinking Review
What are two ways you could get more sleep on school nights?
Answers include doing homework earlier, cutting back on time spent watching television, and limiting social activities to weekends.
Critical Thinking Q A
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33. Critical Thinking Review
What methods do you use to deal with stress at school?
Answers include breathing deeply, visualizing peaceful situations, or taking time-outs to deal with stress.
Critical Thinking Q A

34. Staying Healthy and Safe
End of Chapter 11
Staying Healthy and Safe
Lesson 11.1
It’s Your Health