1. 9th Grade Health Coach Tondee
Chapter 1
Living a Healthy Life
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2. Lesson 1 Your Health and Wellness
Lesson 1 Learning Objectives
Briefly describe “health continuum”
List 8 of 10 lifestyle factors that promote good health.
Briefly describe the importance of health education
List 2 goals of “Healthy People 2010”
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3. Lesson 1 Your Health and Wellness
Myth or Fact? Page 3
What is “Healthy”?
Healthy - A state of well-being comes from a balance between the physical, mental/emotional, and social aspects of your life.
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4. Lesson 1 Your Health and Wellness
THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD HEALTH
Health – the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
The Health Continuum
Health is dynamic (always changing)
Think of your health along any point along a continuum ( your day to day span of life)
Changes in your health continuum may occur suddenly (injury) or gradual (disease).
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5. Lesson 1 Your Health and Wellness
Where are you at right now on the health continuum
Wellness – an overall state of well-being, or total health.
Wellness comes from living each day and making decisions and practicing behaviors that are based on sound knowledge and healthful attitudes.
Achieving wellness requires an ongoing, lifelong commitment to physical, mental/emotional and social health.
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6. Lesson 1 Your Health and Wellness
The Health Continuum
Premature Death Loss of Health/Wellness Improved Health/Wellness High Level Health
Chronic Disorders Free from aches/pains High energy/well being
Lack of energy, aches/pains Moderate energy
People on this side of the continuum People on this side of the continuum usually usually do not take responsibility exhibit a high degree of responsibility, for maintaining their own health discipline, and positive direction in life. They accept responsibility for their own health.
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7. Lesson 1 Your Health and Wellness
PROMOTING YOUR HEALTH
The decisions you make each day will impact your health.
Lifestyle Factors – personal behaviors related to the way a person lives.
Lifestyle factors help determine the level of overall health.
Certain lifestyle factors are directly connected to diseases and health conditions smoking/lung cancer, etc.
What are others?
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8. Lesson 1 Your Health and Wellness
**Lifestyle Factors That Promote Good Health
Getting 8 – 10 hours of sleep each night
Starting each day with a healthy breakfast’
Eating a variety of nutritious foods each day
Physcial activity for 20 minutes for 3 or more times a week
Maintaining a healthy weight
Avoiding tobacco, alcohol and other drugs
Abstaining from sexual activity before marriage
Managing stress
Maintaining positive relationships
Practicing safe behaviors to prevent injuries
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9. Lesson 1 Your Health and Wellness
Wellness and Prevention
A key to wellness is prevention.
Prevention – practicing health and safe habits to remain free from disease and injury
What actions can you take to prevent illness and injury?
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10. Lesson 1 Your Health and Wellness
The Importance of Health Education
Good health is critical to the quality of life we live.
Health Education – providing accurate health information to help people make healthy choices.
The goal of health education is to give people the tools they need to help them live long, energetic and productive lives.
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11. Lesson 1 Your Health and Wellness
Healthy People 2010
Healthy People 2010 – nationwide plan to promote good health and disease prevention designed to improve the health of everyone in the U.S.A. It is revised every 10 years
2 Goals of Healthy People 2010
Increase quality and years of healthy life for all
Remove health differences that result from factors such as gender, race, education, disability and location
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12. Lesson 2 Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
Lesson 2 Learning Objectives
Explain how influences such as heredity, environment, culture, media and technology have impacted the health of people
Analyze the health messages through today’s media
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13. Lesson 2 Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
YOUR HEALTH TRIANGLE
The 3 elements of health – physical, mental/emotional, and social are all interconnected.
To be truly healthy, you need to keep all 3 sides of your health triangle balanced.
Physical GOOD Social
HEALTH
Mental/Emotional
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14. Lesson 2 Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
Physical Health
Physical health has to do how well our bodies function.
Being physically healthy includes:
1. getting adequate sleep
2. eating nutritious meals
3. drinking enough water
4. being physically active
It also includes good hygiene and regular medical and
dental checkups.
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15. Lesson 2 Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
Good physical health also involves paying attention to what you put into your body.
Avoid harmful substances such as tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.
Tobacco Alcohol Drugs
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16. Lesson 2 Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
Mental/Emotional Health
Components of good mental/emotional health are :
1. how well you meet demands of daily life
2. ability to process daily information
3. accepting responsibility for one’s actions
4. developing and standing up for your core values
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17. Lesson 2 Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
People with good mental/emotional health are in touch with their feelings and can express them in appropriate ways.
They also can usually deal with the frustrations and failures of life without being overwhelmed by them.
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18. Lesson 2 Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
Social Health
Social health involves the way you get along with others.
It involves the ability to make and keep friends and to work and play in cooperative ways.
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19. Lesson 2 Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
INFLUENCES ON YOUR HEALTH
6 Important Influences on Health
Heredity – all the traits that were passed on to you from your parents Physical traits include eye color, hair color, and height. Inheriting certain genes may put you at risk for diseases such as diabetes, etc.
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20. Lesson 2 Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
Environment – the sum of all your surroundings.
Physical environment – where you live, go to school, “hang out”, etc. If you live in a good, clean, safe environment = good mental/emotional health.
Social environment – your family and friends and people you come in contact with each day, Peers – people of the same age and have similar interests.
Culture – the collective beliefs, customs or behaviors of a group of people (ethnic, community or nation). Culture can include language, similar foods, traditions, etc.
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21. Lesson 2 Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
Attitude – the way you view situations. Attitude can have an influence on the decisions we make.
Behavior – the actions you do each day. Even though we can’t control heredity (somewhat), we do control our behavior and should be responsible for it.
Media – various methods of communicating information. The media has a MAJOR influence on our health  TV commercials, magazine ads, etc.
Technology – advancements in the medical field (screenings, treatments, medicine) have influence on individual health
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22. Lesson 3 Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks
Lesson 3 Learning Objectives
Identify health risks and describe ways to reduce them
Associate risk-taking with consequences
Analyze the importance of abstinence from risk behaviors such as tobacco, alcohol, drugs and sexual activity before marriage.
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23. Lesson 3 Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks
Part of becoming an adult is learning how to make responsible decisions.
UNDERSTANDING HEALTH RISKS
Risk Behaviors – actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.
Becoming responsible for own health:
Step 1 – increase awareness of risk behaviors in your life.
Step 2 – examine current behaviors and make necessary changes
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24. Lesson 3 Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks
Cumulative risks – related risks that increase in effect with each added risk. Building up over time.
Examples  1. Not using sunblock over long period of time increases chance for skin cancer, Continuous eating of high fat, high calorie foods without exercising increases chance for heart attack and stroke, 3. Not wearing a seatbelt increase chance for serious injury or death if you have an accident
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25. Lesson 3 Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks
ABSTAINING FROM RISK BEHAVIORS
Abstinence – avoiding harmful behaviors.
Abstaining from Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drugs
Abstaining from these 3 substances = avoid consequences!
Use of these 3 negatively effects all 3 areas of the health triangle – physical, mental/emotional and social.
Use can isolate you from friends and family.
Underage usage and possession IS AGAINST THE LAW!!!!!!!!!
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26. Lesson 3 Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks
Abstaining from Sexual Activity
Never have to worry about unwanted pregnancy
Never have to worry about problems with being single parent
Never have to take on responsibilities of caring for a child
Never have to worry about contracting a STD
Free from emotional problems – guilt, regret or rejection.
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