1. Health and Wellness
Healthy Behaviors
© Lisa Michalek

2. Health
The is the combination of your physical, mental, and social well being.

3. An overall state of well-being, or total health.
Wellness
An overall state of well-being, or total health.

4. Physical health Body size and shape need to have good nutrition
Susceptibility to disease and disorders
Body functioning
Physical fitness
Recuperative abilities
Ability to perform normal activities of daily living

5. Mental Health Think clearly Reason objectively Analyze critically
Meet life’s challenges
Learning from successes and mistakes
Making sound, responsible decisions

6. Emotional Health Feeling competent Express emotions when appropriate
Avoid expressing emotions in an inappropriate manner
Self-esteem
Self-confidence
Trust
Love

7. Social Health Satisfying interpersonal relationships
---(can make and keep friends)
Interactions with others
---(work and play in cooperative ways)
Adaptation to various social situations
Daily behaviors

8. The Health Continuum
Sliding scale between premature death and a high level of wellness
Making decisions and practicing behaviors that are based on sound health knowledge and healthy attitudes
Health fluctuates on a continuum

9. The Health Continuum
Most Americans function below the midpoint 9

11. Mr. D’s Coolness Continuum11

12. Lifestyle Factors
Personal behaviors and habits related to the way a person lives, that help determine his or her level of health
Can you say HABITS?

13. Improving Your Health A good night’s sleep Eat Healthy Managing weight
Participate in physical activities
Avoiding Tobacco products
Practicing safer sex
Limiting alcohol and drug use
Self-exams and medical checkups

14. Other ways to improve your health
Control stressors
Forming and maintaining relationships
Making time for yourself
Have fun every day
Respecting the environment
Value each day
View mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow
Be kind to yourself and others

15. Prevention
Act of practicing healthy habits to keep a person well and free from disease and illnesses
Examples:
wearing sunscreen
applying seatbelt
avoiding tobacco

17. Health Literate
A critical thinker and problem solver – evaluate health information and make a wise decision.

18. Risk Factor
Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.
tobacco use
alcohol and other drug use
sexual behaviors
poor eating behaviors
physical inactivity

19. Cumulative risk
Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk. They add up!
Driving faster than the posted speed limit
Driving without a seat belt
Smoking-one cigarette won’t kill you
Sunburns-many exposures increase your risk of skin cancer
Drinking and driving

26. Avoiding harmful behaviors.
Abstinence
Avoiding harmful behaviors.

27. Influences on your health
Heredity – all the traits and propeties that are passed along biologically from both parents to child (eye color, body size and type, etc)
Physical Environment – Crime rate, pollution, dust, smog
Social Environment – Peer Pressure
Cultural environment – Your identity, food, clothes, language, traditions, religion

32. Influences on your health?
Media – television, radio, internet, magazines. (Not all sources are reliable)
Technology – Technological advances have influenced health in a positive manner. Treatment for AIDS and cancer help people live longer.

33. Health vocabulary
Risk factors – Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.
Cumulative risks – Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk. They add up!
Abstinence – Avoiding harmful behaviors.

34. Health Vocabulary 2
Heredity – Biological traits passed on from your parents to you.
Environment – The sum of your surroundings, family neighborhood, job, cultural, etc.
Peers – People of the same age who share similar interest.

35. What can protect teens?
positive role models -teachers, parents, family members, peers, doctors etc.
positive values -beliefs and standards that are important to you
--stick to your values
--courage to abstain from high risk behaviors
“I think I will pass on…….(insert something funny)

36. Health Triangles
Good health is all about balanced triangles. Balance is the key. Lopsided is bad. Draw a triangle in your notes. I want one that would make a geometry teacher giggle in delight. Label one side physical, one side mental/emotional, and one side social health.