1. Chapter 1
Understanding Health and Wellness
Lesson 2
What affect your Health

2. Understanding how heredity, environment, and other factors affect your health can help you make healthy decisions.

3. Influences on Your Health
Heredity, environment, attitude, behavior, media, and technology can all influence your health.
Understanding these influences will help

4. Influences on Your Health
physical environment
culture
behavior

5. Heredity
Your heredity influences your health. Ask your parent or grandparent questions about what health conditions and diseases run in your family.
Heredity

6. Your environment includes
The physical places in which you live.
The people who make up your world.
The culture you live in.
Environment

7. Environmental Factors that Affect Your Health
Physical Environment
Environmental Factors that Affect Your Health
neighborhood safety
air quality
availability of parks
availability of recreational facilities
cleanliness of your surroundings

8. Social Environment
Your social environment is made up of all the people around you, including your family and peers.
Peers

9. Social Environment
Peers can have a influence on you.

10. 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

11. Attitude
Your attitude is the
Optimists are usually

12. Behavior
You have total control over your own
You can choose to avoid high-risk behaviors in favor of healthful behaviors, like choosing

13. Media and Technology
The constant presence of media messages has a significant influence on your decisions.
Media

14. Media and Technology
Media content is delivered via technology and through print media, like newspapers and magazines.
Technology

15. Media and Technology
For valid health information, stick to Web sites that have .gov and .edu in their addresses, or sites maintained by professional health organizations.

16. Understanding Your Influences
You can take control of your health by understanding the factors that influence it.
Understanding these influences and committing to a healthy lifestyle are

17. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What does heredity mean?

18. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Define environment. Identify three types of environment.

19. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
List two ways that media and technology may influence your health.