Understanding Your Health

In this chapter, you will Learn About…

Keeping your physical, mental/emotional, and

social health in balance.

The physical growth that occurs during the

early teen years.

Ways to recognize and avoid risk behaviors.

What Is Health and Wellness?

In this lesson, you will Learn About…

Keeping your physical, mental/emotional, and

social health in balance.

How daily decisions contribute to wellness.

What Is Health and Wellness?

The Vocabulary terms in this lesson are:

Health.

Wellness.

Your Total Health

Being healthy is more than just not being sick. It also involves feeling good about yourself and getting along with other people.

Health is a combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.

The Health Triangle

Like a triangle, your health has three sides:

Physical health Mental/emotional health Social health

The key to good health is keeping a balanced health triangle.

Maintaining a Balance

Each side of your triangle is equally important to good health. An unbalanced health triangle is unhealthy.

What Is Wellness?

Wellness is more than being healthy. Every decision you make can affect your wellness.

For example, eating healthy snacks instead of empty-calorie foods will satisfy your hunger and contribute to your wellness.

Reviewing Terms and Facts

1. _______ is an overall state of well-being, or total health.Wellness

2. List the three sides of the health triangle.

Reviewing Terms and Facts

The three sides of the health triangle are physical, mental/emotional, and social health.

3. Give an example of an unbalanced health triangle. What could be done to each side of the health triangle to balance it?

Thinking Critically

Vocabulary Review

Health is a combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.

Vocabulary Review

Wellness is an overall state of well-being, or total health.

Fold the short sides of the sheet of paper inward so that they meet in the middle.

Draw two circles—one that covers both sides of the Foldable, and one that covers only one side of the Foldable. Label as shown.

On the back of each panel of your Foldable, take notes, define terms, and record examples of health and wellness. In the middle section, draw your personal health triangle.

Rate the status of your health—fair, good, or very good by taking the Health Inventory for Chapter 1 at http://www.glencoe.com/qe/qe66.php?qi=1698