Lesson 1

Being Healthy and Well

CHAPTER 1HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Read pages 4-7, Silently

Objectives• Identify the four parts of health.• Explain the difference between

health and wellness.

BEING HEALTHY AND WELL

What is physical health? • The part of health that deals

with the body is physical health.• Today’s choices will affect

your physical health for years to come.

PHYSICAL HEALTH

• Good Habits Practice the following habits to maintain your physical health:

1. Eat a balanced diet.

2. Get plenty of exercise.

3. Get 8 hours of sleep every night.

4. Avoid drugs, alcohol and tobacco.

5. Practice safety.

6. Practice good hygiene.

7. Visit your doctor and dentist regularly.

PHYSICAL HEALTH

What Is Emotional Health? • Emotional health is the way you

recognize and deal with your feelings.

• During your adolescence years your body is changing and responsibilities are becoming more which can play a direct role on your emotional health.

EMOTIONAL HEALTH

• Healthy Emotions People with emotional health are able to:

1. Express emotions in calm and healthy ways

2. Deal with sadness and get help for depression

3. Accept his or her strengths and weaknesses

EMOTIONAL HEALTH

• What Is Mental Health? Mental health is the way you cope with the demands of daily life.

• Your mental health can be affect by many of the same things that affect your physical health.

• For example a lack of sleep hurts your mental alertness and your ability to deal with stress.

MENTAL HEALTH

• Good Mental Health Having good mental health means that you can:

1. Solve problems with little trouble

2. Deal with stress effectively

3. Accept new ideas

MENTAL HEALTH

Maintaining Balance Wellness is having all four parts of health in good shape and equally balanced. The next slide shows the four parts of health.

WELLNESS BALANCE

4 PARTS OF WELLNESS

LESSON 1 LIFE SKILLS ACTIVITY

Answer Questions 1-5 on Page 7. Must use

complete sentences.

QUESTION TIME

Describe some traits that you have in common with your

parents and some traits that are different from your parents.

LESSON 2 INFLUENCES

ON YOUR HEALTH

EYE LASHESHAIR COURENESSHAIR COLORSKIN TONEEYE COLORBODY SHAPE PERSONALITY

HUTCHESON SIDEHUTCHESON SIDEHUTCHESON SIDEBRUNER SIDEBRUNER SIDEBRUNER SIDEHUTCHESON SIDE

•Explain how heredity affects your health.

• Explain how the environment influences your health.

OBJECTIVES

• What Is Heredity? Heredity is the passing down of traits from parents to their biological child.

• Inherited Traits Physical traits that can be inherited, or passed down, include height and hair, eye, and skin color. Certain diseases can also be passed down from parent to child.

HEREDITY AND TRAITS

• An example of a disease that could be passed down would be muscular dystrophy which is an inherited disease of the muscles.

• If both parents carry the genetic trait for the disease, their child has a 25% chance of being born with the muscular dystrophy.

• Other disease like heart disease, are only partially determined by a person’s heridity.

HEREDITY AND INHERITED TRAITS

• Your environment includes all of the living and nonliving things around you.

• The environment can affect all parts of your health.

ENVIRONMENT

• Asthma attacks are one such example of the way in which the environment can affect your health.

• Environmental factors that may bring on an asthma attack include such things as air pollution, tobacco smoke, and pollen.

• Emotional stress has also been known trigger of asthma attacks.

• Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD causes depression in some people if they do not get enough sunlight.

ENVIRONMENT

Read pgs 10-11 as class

LESSON 3 MAKING GOOD

HEALTH CHOICES

• Describe the relationship between your lifestyle and your health.

• Identify four things that you can do to have a healthy lifestyle.

• Explain how your attitude affects your health.

• Explain what you can do to take responsibility for your healthcare.

OBJECTIVES

• The choices you make throughout the day such as what you eat and what you do for fun influence your lifestyle.

• A lifestyle is a set of behaviors that you live by. • To maintain a health lifestyle, you will want to

develop a good attitude about your health. • An attitude is a way of acting, thinking, or

feeling that causes you to make one choice or another.

LIVING HEALTHY

Make Healthy Decisions To take control of your health you must first decide to improve your lifestyle. Next, you should decide which part of health you want to improve.

TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR HEALTH

• Make Healthy Decisions You are responsible for caring for your own health. Your responsibilities include:

1. Brushing and flossing your teeth

2. Eating healthy foods and exercising

3. Getting enough sleep

4. Wearing safety equipment when playing sports

5. Using your seat belt

6. Avoiding dangerous behavior

HEALTHCARE AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

• What responsibilities do you have? • Cleaning your room? Feeding your dog?

• Making responsible healthcare choices can be apart of practicing preventive healthcare.

• Preventive healthcare is taking steps to help prevent illness and accidents.

• These steps include regular visits to your doctors and dentist .

HEALTHCARE AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

LIFE SKILLS ACTIVITY

Having a dental exam every year is a good way to find and fill cavities before they get very large. Do the Life Skills Activity to think of other forms of preventive healthcare.

Worksheet page 3, questions 16-19.

Bonus if you answer 20

WORKSHEET

LESSON 4 NINE LIFE SKILLS FOR BETTER

HEALTH

NINE LIFE SKILLS