What Affects Your Health

Objectives:

Influences on your health Objective 1: Analyze how influences such as

heredity, environment, attitude,

Behavior, media,

and technology impact health. Objective 2: Demonstrate how to take

responsibility for your health.

Influences on your health

Heredity: Refers to all the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents.

Discussions: – What physical traits did you inherit from your

parents?– What health influence (conditions) did you / could

you inherit from your parents?

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Environment: The sum of your surroundings, including where you live and the people who make up your world.– Physical environment– Social environment (family & peers)

- Culture (beliefs, customs & behaviors)

Attitude The way you view situations

Behavior (you have total control over this) You can lower your risks by practicing healthy habits

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Media & Technology

Some messages may be positive and some may be negative. HOW??

-Positive achievements, contributing money, helping others Internet: How might this be positive and/or negative?

-Using drugs/alcohol, not facing consequences for behaviors