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Decisions for Health

• Holt
• Level Blue

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Chapter 1

• Health and Wellness

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Lesson 1

• Wellness and your Health

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Health

• Combination of
• Physical
• Mental/emotional
• Social well-being

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Physical
Playing hard. Eating well. Avoid harmful
behaviors/drugs. 8 hours of sleep. Good hygiene.
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Emotional

• Express emotions in word rather than actions.
• Accept your strengths and weaknesses.
• Deal with sadness appropriately and in a timely
  manner.

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Mental

• Recognize and deal with stress in a positive way.
• Accept new ideas.
• Effectively solve problems.

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Social

• Being considerate of others and their needs.
• Showing others respect.
• Being dependable.
• Support others you care about when they make good
  choices.
• Expressing true feelings.
• Imagine how you would feel if you were in another
  persons place.
• Ask for help when needed.

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Wellness

• state of good health by balancing your physical,
  mental, emotional and social health.

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Assess Your Health

• On your notes or on a separate piece of paper,
  answer each item.
• I am physically active regularly
• I eat a variety of foods, including fruits and
  vegetables
• I find it easy to relax and express my feelings
• I have close friends or relatives in whom I can
  confide
• I prepare for events that I know will be
  stressful to me
• I avoid risky behavior
• I practice good hygiene

Almost Some Almost Always Times
Never
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Score yourself

• Give yourself 4 points for almost always
• 2 points for sometimes
• 0 points for almost never

23-28 means you have great health habits 15-22
means you have good overall habits-still room for
improvements 7-14 means that you have many health
habits to work on 0-6 means that you are taking
unecessary risks with your health
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Lesson 2

• Influences on Health and Wellness

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Heredity and your health
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Heredity

• Passing of traits from a parent to a child.

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Environment

• Everything around you.

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Things to do to help the environment

• Dispose of trash properly to prevent pollution.
• Walk, ride, bike, or use mass transit to reduce
  the amount of pollution released.
• Start a recycling program for paper, plastic and
  aluminum cans.

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How relationships Influence you

• Parents or caretakers teach
• Nutrition
• Hygiene
• Exercise
• Peers
• Influence classes
• Activities you do
• Friends
• Good and negative influences

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Other Influences

• Media
• TV
• Magazines
• Internet

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Lesson 3

• Making Choices About Your Health

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Lifestyle

• A set of behaviors by which you live.

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Attitude

• The way you act, think or feel that causes you to
  make a choice over another.

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Preventive Healthcare

• Steps taken necessary to prevent illness or
  accidents.

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Lesson 4

• Using Life Skills to Improve Health

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Life Skills

• Skills that help you deal with situations that
  can affect your health.

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Life Skills

• Making good decisions
• Being a wise consumer
• Communication effectively
• Practicing Wellness
• Setting Goals
• Using refusal skills
• Coping
• Evaluating Media Messages

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Refusal Skills

• A way to say no to something that you dont want
  to do.

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Decisions for Health

• Chapter 1
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