1. Health & Nutrition Wakefield - 2014
Chapter 1
Health & Nutrition
Wakefield

2. Health –
The combination of physical, mental / emotional, and social well-being
Every decision you make affects your overall health

3. Your Health Triangle – Physical Health Mental / Emotional Health
Social Health

4. Physical Health All about how your body functions
8 – 10 hours sleep nightly
Nutritious meals
30 – 60 minutes of physical activity
No tobacco, alcohol or drugs
Good hygiene

5. Mental / Emotional Health
About your feelings & thoughts
How you feel about yourself
Includes spiritual health
Deep-seated feeling of meanng & purpose

6. Mental / Emotional Health
Enjoy challenges
Accept responsibility
Have a sense of control
Express emotions appropriately
Adequately deal with stress
Have a positive outlook
Make thoughtful & responsible decisions

7. Social Health Getting along with others Seeking & lending support
Communicating clearly
Listening
Showing respect & care

8. Keeping a Balance Wellness
An overall state of well-being or total health
Comes from making good decisions and practicing behaviors that are based on sound health knowledge & healthful attitudes
Keeping a balance among all health components

9. Health Continuum
Your health, at any moment can be seen as a point along a sliding scale
Health Behaviors will promote your wellness

10. Influences on Your Health
Heredity –
All the traits passes along to you from your parents
Located in your genes on your chromosomes
Coded by DNA – a protien

11. Influences on Your Health
Environment –
The sum total of your surroundings
Physical environment
Social environment
Cultural environment
Culture – the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group
Language – Traditions – Foods – Religion – Physical Activity

12. Influences on Your Health
Attitude –
The way you view situations
Glass half full or half empty?
Every day you get to make a conscious decision on how you will perceive the world around you!

13. Influences on Your Health
Behavior –
The activities in which you endeavor
Healthful
High risk

14. Media & Technology Media – Technology –
Various methods of communicating
Technology –
Method of communications delivery
Radio, television, internet, print

15. Media & Technology
Reliable internet health site are monitored by HON and will have the HON CODE

16. Health Risks Risk Behaviors -
Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others

17. Health Risks Consequences of Risky Behaviors –
Risks add up and will increase in effect with each added risk – Cumulative Risks

18. Avoiding Health Risks Prevention – Avoidance of unhealthy behaviors
Abstinence – a deliberate decision to avoid high0risk behaviors, including sexual activities and the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs; this would also include violent behavior and bullying

19. Promoting Your Good Health
Regularly participating in health-promoting behaviors will help you reach high levels of wellness

20. Healthy Lifestyle Factors
The personal habits & behaviors related to the way a person lives –
8 hours sleep
Eating a healthy breakfast
Eating a variety of healthy foods daily
30 – 60 minutes of daily physical activity
Maintaining a healthy weight
Abstaining from all tobacco products
Abstaining from all drugs & alcohol

22. Promoting Health & Wellness
Individual, family, community & national health require planning & responsible behavior on everyone’s part
America spends $1.9 trillion annually on health care
$6,280 per person

23. Goals of Healthy People
Increase the quality & length of healthy life for all Americans
Remove differences in health outcomes based on gender, race, education, disability & location
Health Disparities – differences in health outcomes among groups of people

24. Health Literacy Know where to find accurate health information
Assess the risks & benefits of treatments
Understand medicines
Understand test results

25. Becoming Health Literate
Critical thinker
Problem solver
Responsible
Self-directed learner
Effective communicator
A person’s capacity to learn about and understand basic health information & services, and to use these resources to promote one’s health and wellness.
Literacy Factors