1. Reaching for your best level of health.
Wellness
Reaching for your best level of health.

2. Healthful Lifestyle Key to Good Health
Lifestyle: includes how you live your life and everything you do.
For a healthful lifestyle you need
Regular physical activity.
Effective ways to manage stress
Good nutrition (nutrition: the processes by which your body uses nutrients in food for growth, energy and maintenance.)

3. Good Physical Health Promote or improve physical health
Eat enough nutritious foods, and do not overeat.
Eat breakfast daily
Choose meals and snacks wisely.
Maintain a healthy weight
Drink enough water or other fluids daily.
Include physical activity in your life
Sleep at least eight hours daily.
Follow good hygiene habits
Wear your seatbelt in the car and safety gear for sports
Regular medical and dental checkups
Avoid tobacco, alcoholic beverages and harmful drugs
Stay informed about nutrition & wellness

4. Mental & Emotional Health
How you deal with daily life and how you feel about yourself reflect your mental and emotional health.
Guidelines for handling stress:
Balance school and work responsibilities
Maintain good physical health
Take time for rest and fun
Accept that you cannot control every situation
Admit mistakes and learn from them
Be an optimist
Keep a sense of humor
Discuss things that worry you
Set goals and priorities

5. Social Health Involves your relationships
Socially health characteristics:
Praise other, and accept and appreciate their differences
Enjoy friends of both genders and all ages
Be helpful and considerate
Accept rules and be responsible
Handle conflict in constructive ways
Communicate well
Handle peer pressure in ways that respect your values.

6. Brain Break

7. Why You Eat What You Eat Culture Family Friends Religion
Available Foods
Lifestyle, Energy, Budget
Trends and Technology
Media
Knowledge
Emotions
Priorities

8. Enjoying Food for Wellness
Hunger or Appetite?
Hunger: physical need for food
Appetite: a psychological desire for food.
Sensing Food’s Flavor
Flavor: combination of a food’s taste, smell, and texture.
Papillae: tiny bumps that contain taste buds. Each has hundreds of taste buds, which distinguish sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami (the brothlike taste in meat, vegetables and cheese)

9. Steps to Wellness Identify the decision to make.
Collect information and identify your resources.
Identify possible choices.
Consider possible choices.
Choose the best option.
Take action.
Evaluate your decision.

10. Take Action for Wellness
Set realistic goals.
Make a plan.
Identify small, doable steps.
Take action.
Stick with it.
Get support.
Check your progress and your efforts.
Reward yourself.