1. 1 Contents Chapter Health Choices and Behavior
Section 1 Wellness and Your Choices
Section 2 Portrait of a Well Person
Section 3 Making Behavior Changes

2. Fact or Fiction?
Is this statement true or false? If you think it’s false, explain what is true.
Accidents are among the major causes of death for teens.

3. Content Vocabulary health wellness chronological age physiological age
centenarians

4. Your daily choices affect your health and wellness.
Freedom from physical disease, poor physical condition, social maladjustment, and other negative states
wellness
Maximum well-being, the top of the range of health states

5. Physical Health Yesterday and Today
The leading causes of death have changed over time. 5

6. Physical Health Yesterday and Today
In the past, many children, teens, and older people died of infectious diseases.
Today, however, these diseases are better understood and many of them can be prevented. 6

7. Daily Choices Affect Your Health
Physical Health Yesterday and Today
Daily Choices Affect Your Health
Lifestyle choices are daily choices.
Example: The choice to smoke is a major cause of lung disease.
Lifestyle diseases that may be caused by neglect include heart disease, lung disease, cancer, diabetes, and liver disease.

8. Family Medical History and Environment
Physical Health Yesterday and Today
Family Medical History and Environment
In addition to personal choices, heredity and environment affect your overall health and wellness.

9. Family Medical History and Environment
Physical Health Yesterday and Today
Family Medical History and Environment
Heredity: The tendency to develop certain diseases may be more common within a family.
Eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly, and avoiding tobacco use can still reduce a person’s risk of disease.

10. Family Medical History and Environment
Physical Health Yesterday and Today
Family Medical History and Environment
Environment: Infectious disease and diseases caused by air, water, and food pollution are examples of the environment’s effect on health.
Environmental impacts include physical, social, and cultural environmental factors.

11. Family Medical History and Environment
Physical Health Yesterday and Today
Family Medical History and Environment
Physical environment refers to where you live. It may include air pollution, access to medical care, and the availability of safe places to play.

12. Family Medical History and Environment
Physical Health Yesterday and Today
Family Medical History and Environment
Social environment refers to the influence that the people around you have on your choices.

13. Family Medical History and Environment
Physical Health Yesterday and Today
Family Medical History and Environment
Cultural environment refers to the beliefs and customs that your family practices.

14. The Power of Taking Control
Physical Health Yesterday and Today
The Power of Taking Control
Wellness can exist anywhere along a line, from maximum wellness on one end to total failure to function (death) on the other.
It is up to you to take control and be responsible for your own health and choices.

15. Age: A Matter of Definition
Lifestyle choices affect overall health and even the length of life. 15

16. Age: A Matter of Definition
Your chronological age after 60 years will be 60, but what about your physiological age?
chronological age
Age as measured in years from the date of birth
physiological age
Age as estimated from the body’s health and probable life expectancy 16

17. Age: A Matter of Definition
Five factors that impact your physiological age:
Get eight to nine hours of sleep each night.
Eat regular, nutritious meals, including breakfast.
Engage in regular physical activity.
Avoid the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
Maintain a healthy weight. 17

18. Age: A Matter of Definition
Lifelong habits affect the length of life. Evidence of this comes from the study of centenarians.
Centenarians are usually well nourished, are nonsmokers, don’t abuse alcohol or other drugs, and are physically active.
centenarians
People who have reached the age of 100 years old or older 18

19. Section Review: Reviewing the Vocabulary
Define chronological age.
chronological age
Age as measured in years from the date of birth

20. Section Review: Reviewing the Vocabulary
What is a centenarian?
centenarians
People who have reached the age of 100 years old or older