1. What Influences Your Health
Health Influences
What Influences Your Health

2. What Affects your Health
Heredity
Environment
Family and friends
Culture
Media
Attitudes
Behavior

3. Heredity
Heredity is the passing on of traits from biological parents to children.

4. Traits that are passed on
Skin, eye and hair color
Body Build
Growth patterns
Tendency to get certain diseases.

5. Environmental influences
Environment – all the living and non-living things that surround you.

6. Environmental influences
Your Physical Environment
home, neighborhood and school
The air and water around you.

7. Environmental influences
Your Social Environment
The people in your life
Family, Friends, classmates, neighbors.
Recreation
Games and activities with others
Peers: people close to you in age who are a lot like you.
Peer influences can be positive or negative

8. Other Influences on your Health
Cultural background: the beliefs, customs and traditions of a specific group of people.
Foods you may eat
Holidays you celebrate
Culture: the collected beliefs, customs and behaviors of a group.

9. Other Influences on your Health
Media: various methods for communicating information
TV, magazines, newspapers, movies, radio, and the internet.
Make sure to evaluate the source giving the message.
What is the goal of the message?