1. Bellringer Do not turn In. What is health?
Why would you want to be healthy?
Who is most responsible for your health? .

2. Understanding Health & Wellness
Chapter 1
Understanding Health & Wellness

3. Your Total Health
Health- the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
Gives you the knowledge and skills you need to take care of your health for a lifetime.
Three main areas of health:
Physical
Mental/Emotional
Social Health
Physical
Health Triangle
Mental/Emotional
Social

4. Physical Health All about how your body functions.
Having enough energy to perform your daily activities.
5 important actions you can take:
1. Get 8-10 hours of sleep
2. Drink 8 cups of water each day
3. Engage in 30-60min of P.E
4. Avoid tobacco, alcohol, drugs
5. Bathe, Brush teeth & floss daily

5. Mental/ Emotional Health
All about your feelings and thoughts.
How you feel about yourself & How you cope with problems that occur in your life.
Enjoy Challenges
Accept responsibility for your actions.
Control of your life
Express emotions in appropriate ways
Has a positive outlook on life.

6. Deep-seated sense of meaning and purpose in life.
Spiritual Health
Deep-seated sense of meaning and purpose in life.
This does not mean that you belong to a religious group.

7. Social Health Getting along with others.
Social network includes your family, friends, teachers, and other members of your community.
Seeking and lending support when needed
Communicating clearly and listening to others.
Showing respect and care for yourself and others.

8. Wellness
When your health triangle is balanced, you have a high degree of wellness.
Wellness: overall state of well-being or total health
Ignoring any part of your health triangle affects your total health.

9. Health Continuum Copy Figure 1.4 on page 10
One-half of all American adults live with a chronic disease.
An ongoing condition or illness such as heart disease, obesity, and cancer.
Leading risk factors for many CD are:
Smoking
Alcohol
Lack of physical activity
Poor Nutrition & Being Overweight
Sexual Activity
Lack of physical screenings.

10. Health Introduction Essay
This assignment is a going to be your typical English style paper with 5 paragraphs. It should include an introduction paragraph, 3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
You will be writing/typing your paper on the following topics:
1. What do you think health is?
2. What do you hope to learn about in health?
3. What do you hope we don't learn about in health?
You can also include the following:
What did you do this summer?
Extracurricular Activities/ Hobbies and Interests?
Name some good things in your life.
What do you value most in your life?
What is something interesting about you that will help me get to know you
What do you hope to learn in Health this semester?
You may turn it in on paper, Edmodo, or me at

11. Influences on Your Health
Heredity
physical environment
social environment
Attitude
Behavior
Technology
Media

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

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

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

15. 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

16. Your attitude is the way you view situations
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.
Attitude

17. 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.

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

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

20. Identifying Health Risks
You can control most risk behaviors.
Risk behaviors
Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others
Avoiding risks will help you to protect and promote your health.

21. Risk Behaviors
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified six of the most significant risk behaviors for young people under age 24.
1. Tobacco Use Unhealthy Diet.
3. Lack of physical activity Alcohol & Drugs
5. Sexual Behaviors Injuries & Violence

22. Risks and Consequences
When you repeatedly engage in certain risk behaviors you expose yourself to the effects of cumulative risks.
Cumulative risks Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk

23. How to Avoid or Reduce Risks
Another way to reduce health risks is through prevention.
Taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse

24. Abstaining from High-Risk Behaviors
One of the most effective strategies for protecting your health is practicing abstinence.
Abstinence is A deliberate decision to avoid high-risk behaviors, including sexual activity and the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs

25. Lifestyle Factors
Scientists have found that positive lifestyle factors improve people’s overall health, happiness, and longevity.
Lifestyle factors are The personal habits or behaviors related to the way a person lives

26. Chapter 2 Vocabulary Advocacy Refusal Skills, Conflict resolution
Health skills
Interpersonal communication
Values
Health-consumer
Goals
Decision making skills
Health fraud
Action plan
Warranty