Chapter 1
Making Healthy Choices
• 1-1 What Are Health and Wellness
• 1-2 Identifying Health Risks
• 1-3 Taking Responsibilities for Your Health
1-1: What Are Health and Wellness
• Health is:
• Health is closely related to Quality of life.
– Health is an evolving term.
Physical Health
Physical Health:
• Physical health is:
• When you are able to complete everyday tasks
without becoming overly tired and still have
energy leftover for emergency and having fun.
• Being physically healthy includes eating right,
getting regular exercise, being at your
recommended body weight, avoiding drugs
and alcohol, and being free from disease and
sickness.
Mental Health
• What is mental health?
• How many of you would say having poor
mental health is having a mental illness or a
fear?
• Are mental illness and fears connected?
– Does anyone know the definition of either?
• Mental Illness is a medical condition that disrupts a
person's thinking, feeling, mood and ability to relate
to others, which interferes with daily functioning.
• Fear is the unpleasant emotional state consisting of
physical and emotional responses to a real external
threat or danger, including agitation, alertness,
tension, and mobilization of the alarm reaction.
» EX: Fight or Flight
• Fear becomes a Mental Illness when a person
can no longer control and overcome their
fears.
• In this case it is no longer known as a fear, but
rather a mental illness called Phobia.
• Phobia- A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a
specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it,
despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not
dangerous.
• When a fear cannot be dealt with is it always a
phobia?
• Most of the everyday fears that high school
students deal with are not in fact phobias.
• Fearing that you will not make varsity, you
won’t make the school band, or that you will
have to speak in front of the entire class are
all instances that you fear, but can in fact
overcome.
Mental Health
• Mental Health is:
• It is the ability to recognize reality and cope
with the demands of daily life.
• Being able to learn from and acknowledge
mistakes.
Social Health
• Is being the most popular student in school
being socially healthy?
• Social Health is:
• Having loving, positive relationships,
respecting others and being able to offer and
accept help.
• Quality of your relationship.
Emotional Health
• Emotional health is:
• Not becoming overwhelmed with unpleasant
emotions and being able to cope with them.
• Being short fused, patience are just some
example of emotional health.
• “I” Statements.
Spiritual Health
• Spiritual health does not necessarily mean a
person’s religion, it can be different for
everyone.
• For most, Spiritual health is:
• It is your value system.
• What do you truly believe in?
Environmental Health
• What does the environment consist of?
• Air, Water, and Land
• How can the environment affect your well
being?
• Environmental health is:
• Having an appreciation for your surroundings.
Wellness
• What is wellness?
• Wellness is:
• It is about always striving for the optimal
health, even though most people are never
completely healthy
• Let’s see how your wellness ranks?(wellness
inventory work sheet)
1-2:Identifying Health Risks
• Risk Factor:
is anything that increases the likelihood of
injury, disease, or other health problems.
• Many of your everyday decisions have some
type of risk involved.
• Some risk factors can be controlled by your
behavior, while others cannot.
• 3 categories of risk factors:
1. ____________________
2. ____________________
3. ____________________
Hereditary Risk Factors
• Heredity- all the traits that are passed along
biologically from parent to child.
• Examples:
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• Risk Factors
– High blood pressure
– Breast cancer
– Diabetes
– Std’s
Environmental Risk Factors
• Environment- all of the physical and social
conditions surrounding a person and the
influence they have on a person.
– There are three types of Environmental Risk
Factors:
1.
2.
3.
Behavioral Risk Factors
• Result from your actions and decisions.
(choices)
• There are six types of behavioral risk factors
that cause the most serious health problems:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
(pg.10 of lifetime health for notes on 6 types)
Leading Cause of Death for Teens:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Types of Risk Factors
• There are two types of risk factors:
• [Link] Risk Factor-
• 2. Uncontrollable Risk Factor-
What type of Risk Factor (controllable/uncontrollable)
_____________ ________________
• Age
• Physical activity
• Race
• Some types of Cancer
• Gender
• Weight
• Heredity
Risk Factors and Your Health
• You CANNOT control the uncontrollable
risk factors.
• You CAN protect your health by focusing
on controllable risk factors, which you
can change through your behavior.
Although you may be born with a disease there are
ways to prevent such disease from worsening.
• Questions in Life Time Health pg. 9
1-3:Taking Responsibility for Your
Health
• There are four important steps a person
must consider if they would like to make
healthy changes to their lives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
• Throughout this section you should have
learned many different aspects of health and
wellness.
• Most importantly you should have learned
that not only do your actions and decisions
affect yourself, but others as well.