User:Atcovi/Wellness and Keys to a Healthy Life

Lesson 1 – Your Health and Wellness
Good Health: Health is the combo of physical, mental, and social well-being… basically you are striving to be the best you can be. Wellness is a broader term than Health… Wellness is an overall state of well-being, or total health. Well-being requires on going, lifelong commitment. We have several life style factors that we can control, such as enough sleep, good diet, avoiding alcohol and drugs… and even small things such as using seat belts! You need to practice Prevention, which is practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease/injury.

Lesson 2 - Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle

 * What is your health triangle?

There are different aspects of a lifestyle, such as Physical, Mental/Emotional and Social.
 * Physical is enough energy to perform daily things and resist disease.
 * Mental/Emotional - in touch with feelings, stress outlets
 * Social - Relationships with others... How you interact with other people.

What influences your health?

 * Heredity - Biologically passed on to you
 * Environment - Your surroundings... family neighborhood, school, job
 * Social - peers (people of the same age) friends, family, church
 * Culture - beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group... community, nation... foods, parties
 * Attitudes - likes and dislikes, must be some benefit to you and problems may result if you don't
 * Behavior - lower the risks... heart disease, ^BP
 * Media - magazines, newspaper, TV

Lesson 3: Reducing Health Risks

 * What are risk behaviors? Actions that can potentially threaten your health or others.
 * 1) Not using seat belts
 * 2) Drugs/Alcohol
 * 3) Smoking
 * 4) Not doing exercises 3x a week

Risks and Consequences

 * Cumulative risk - Increase with each added risk
 * 1) Smoking lots of cigarettes
 * 2) High Fat
 * 3) No Excercise
 * Abstaining - Avoid harmful behaviors