Chapter 1 Making Healthy Choices 1 1 What

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: – – – • 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: • 1. Controllable Risk Factor- • 2. Uncontrollable Risk Factor-

What type of Risk Factor _______ • Physical activity • Some types of Cancer • Weight (controllable/uncontrollable) ________ • Age • Race • Gender • 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.