Having a Healthy Lifestyle

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Having a Healthy Lifestyle

• And making good choices!

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How do we know what is important?

• Technology and medical advances can help us
  understand how the human body functions and allow
  us to make informed decisions regarding our
  health.

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• Life style choices, environmental factors, and
  genetics can cause abnormalities to occur during
  embryonic development as well as later in life.

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Making Choices

• Toxic substances, some dietary habits, and some
  personal behavior may be bad for ones health.

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Hygiene

• Good hygiene reduces the risk of infection and
  disease.
• Examples of good hygiene?
• Wash your hands!
• Brush your teeth!
• What else?

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Exercise

• How does exercise benefit you?
• Controls weight
• Combats health conditions
• Heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2
  diabetes, stroke
• Improves mood
• Boosts energy
• Promotes better sleep

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Toxic Substances

• Human activities such as
• smoking,
• consumption of alcohol and the
• use of drugs
• lead to a variety of conditions within the body
  and interfere with the efficient operation of the
  body.

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• Alcohol and other drugs are often abused
  substances.
• Such drugs change how the body functions and can
  lead to addiction.

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• Avoiding toxic substances, such as tobacco, and
  changing dietary habits increases the chance of
  living longer.
• The use of tobacco increases the risk of illness.
  
• There are possible long-term detrimental effects
  of smoking and chewing tobacco.

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Dietary Habits

• Dietary Choices
• Good?
• Eating your fruits and vegetables.
• Maintaining a balanced diet.
• Why?
• Helps you obtain the vitamins and nutrients that
  you need in order for your body to stay healthy.

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Homework

• Create questions and write a summary for todays
  Cornell Notes.