1. LEADING A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

2. What does being healthy mean to you?
Define Health
The state of well-being in which all of the components of health-physical, emotional, social, mental, spiritual, and environmental-are in balance
Compare your definition to Webster’s
What does being healthy mean to you?

3. Components of Health

4. Components of Health
Physical Health-refers to the way your body functions
Eating right, exercise, free from diseases and sickness
Emotional Health-expressing your emotions in a positive, nondestructive way
Social Health-the quality of your relationships with your friends, family, and others.
Occupational Health-Level of satisfaction with what you do, your productivity, the environment you work in, and your compensation.

5. Components cont.
Mental Health-is the ability to recognize reality and cope with the demands of daily life
Strongly influenced be emotional health
Spiritual Health-is maintaining harmonious relationships with other living things and having spiritual direction and purpose
Religious beliefs or purpose in life
Values: a strong belief or ideal
Environmental Health-is keeping your air and water clean, your food safe, and the land around you enjoyable and safe

6. Health in the Past: Infectious Diseases
In the 1800’s and early 1900’s, the leading causes of death in the US were infectious diseases
Infectious diseases- diseases caused by pathogens, such as bacteria
Can be passes from one person to another
Ex: polio, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and the flu

7. Health Today: Lifestyle Diseases
Advances in medicine, living conditions, etc. have put infectious diseases under control
Today, most health problems are related to our lifestyle
Lifestyle diseases -are caused by unhealthy behaviors and other factors
Ex: diabetes, heart disease, types of cancer

8. Health Risk Factors
Risk Factor: is anything that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other health problems.
Ex:
Family history
Stress level
Overweight and obesity
Smoking
Lack of exercise

9. Controllable Risk Factors
Risk factors that you can do something about
Controlled by your behavior
Physical activity, smoking, weight, diet

10. Uncontrollable Risk Factors
Factors that are unable to be changed
Age, race, gender, heredity

11. Six Health Risk Behaviors
Sedentary Lifestyle -not taking part in physical activity on a regular basis
Alcohol and other drug use
Can cause liver disease, cancer, heart disease, and brain damage
Sexual Activity
Behaviors that cause injury
Tobacco Use
Poor Eating Habits

12. You can protect your health by focusing on controllable risk factors that you can change through your behavior.
What behaviors should you focus on?
Let’s take a look at the the leading causes of death for teens…

13. Leading Causes of Death Among Teens
Motor vehicle accidents (33%)
Homicide (16%)
Suicide (12%)
Other accidents (13%)
Other causes (26%)

14. 6 Components Review
As you can see, many of the components of health can be affected by the other components. One weak component can affect a person’s overall health, thus “balance” is included in the definition of health.
Wellness-is the achievement of a person’s best in all 6 components of health.
**Personal Health Assessment

15. Influences on your Wellness
Hereditary Influences
Heredity- traits you inherit from your parents
Examples?
Social Influences
The relationships you have with other people
Abstinence: stay away from/don’t engage in
Cultural Influences
Culture-is the values, beliefs, and practices shared by people that have a common background
Environmental Influences
Your surroundings

16. Taking Charge of Your Wellness
1. Knowledge
Health Literacy-the knowledge of health information needed to make good choices about your health
2. Lifestyle
behavioral changes--there is a difference between knowledge and behavior
3. Attitude
by changing your attitude, you can act in ways that work to make you a healthier person

17. Four Ways Society Addresses Health Problems
Public Health is the practice of protecting and improving the health of people in a community
Medical Advances
Technology
Public Policy
Education

18. Public Service Announcement
A message created to educate people about an issue.

19. Make a PSA In a small group:
Create a message to educate people about an issue
Make sure your info is accurate
Know your audience