Living a Healthy Life Chapt - PowerPoint Presentation

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Living a Healthy LifeChapt. 1

Lesson 1

Your Health and Wellness

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The importance of Good HealthHealth- is the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.

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Health ContinuumHealth is dynamic=constant changeEx: Leading scorer for basketball one night and wake up with the flu the next morning.

Change along the continuum can occur suddenly: Sports injuries.

It is normal for these changes so we have to know how to handle the changes in a healthy way.

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The Health Continuum

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WellnessWellness- The overall state of well-being or total health. Includes making good decisions and practicing good healthy behaviors. To achieve=ongoing, lifelong, commitment to physical, mental/emotional and social health.

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Promoting your HealthDecisions you make everyday affect your health.Lifestyle factors: Personal behaviors or habits can affect your Health, happiness, and longevity.

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Lifestyle FactorsCertain lifestyle factors are linked to specific diseases.

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Wellness and PreventionPrevention- practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injury.

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Importance of Health EducationHealth Education- providing accurate health information to help people make healthy choices.Goal-to give people the tools they need to help live long, energetic and productive lives.

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Healthy People 2010Nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serves as a guide for improving the health of all people in the US.

Plan is revised every 10 years-aims to promote good health, prevent illness, disability and early death.

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Goals of Healthy People 2010Increase quality and years of healthy life for all Americans and remove health differences that result from factors such as gender, race, education, disability, and location.

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Goals of Healthy People 2010Who can help with these goals???YOU, FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES

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Becoming Health LiterateHealth Literacy- a person’s capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and use these resources to promote their wellness.

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Health-literate individual needs to be…Critical thinker

Responsible productive citizen

Self directed learner

Effective

communicatior

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Lesson 2 Promoting a Health Lifestyle

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Physical HealthHow well your body functions.Energy, to perform activities, cope with everyday challenges and stresses, resist diseases and avoid injury.

EX: getting sleep, rest, eating, drinking water, being physically active, good hygiene, medical and dental checkups, nutrition.

Avoiding harmful substances: Alcohol, drugs, tobacco.

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Good or Bad Physical Health??

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Good or Bad Physical Health?

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Mental/Emotional HealthFeelings about yourself, how well you meet the demands of daily life and your ability to process information are all important.

Good Mental Health-in touch with feelings, learning new things, see mistakes as opportunities, accept responsibility for actions, can express themselves in appropriate ways, avoid dwelling on negatives, positive thoughts and move forward.

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Good or Bad Mental/Emotional Health???

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Good or Bad Mental/Emotional Health???

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Social HealthThe way you get along with others.Make friends, keep friends, work and play in cooperative ways, seek support/lend support, communicating, show respect and care for yourself and others.

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Good or Bad Social Health???

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Good or Bad Social Health???

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Influences on your HealthHeredity- all traits that are biologically passed on to you from your parents.

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EnvironmentThe sum of your surroundings, including family, neighborhood, school, job, life experiences.

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Physical Enviornment

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Social EnvironmentPeers- people of the same age who share similar interests.

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Culture EnvironmentCulture- collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors.EX: ethnic groups, language you speak, religion, traditions.

Give you your sense of identity.

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AttitudeThe way you view situations- in order to practice good health habits you must believe that there is some benefit to you and that problems may result if you don’t develop these habits.

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BehaviorYou have control over your behavior…

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MediaMedia- various methods of communicating information, includes: radio,

tv

, film, newspapers, magazines, books, and the internet.

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Technology

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Lesson 3 Your Behavior and Reducing Health RisksRisk Behaviors- actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.

1

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step-recognize your risky behavior.

2nd step examine your current behaviors and identify needed changes.

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Recognizing Risk BehaviorsTeen Risk BehaviorsUsed safety belts-69%

Did not smoke-65%

Did not use alcohol-81%

Did not use drugs-90%

Participate in a physical fitness-65%***

Survey of teens behaviors-Most teens are not drinking using drugs or using tobacco, 2/3 wear their seat belts-where do you fit in???

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Cumulative Risks and ConsequencesCumulative risk- related risks that increase with each added risk.Ex: smoking 1 cigarette is not likely to cause death or eating 1 hamburger or getting 1 sunburn. If these behaviors are repeated over time negative effects accumulate and lead to serious health consequences.

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Smoking

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Smoking Dangers

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Bad nutrition

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Bad nutrition could lead to…

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Out in the sun…

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TOO MUCH SUN…

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Abstaining from risky behaviorsAbstain-avoid harmful behaviors including-alcohol, tobacco, drugs and sexual activity before marriage.