What is Health?

Learning Objectives: To understand what health is. To know what we do that is detrimental to our

well-being.

Starter: What is health? Write down 5 things that make you healthy.

What makes you unhealthy?

Lack of exercise Poor diet Drugs other than alcohol Solvents Alcohol

Draw a table:

Substance Drug (√) Medicine (√)

Legal or Illegal?

Is it a drug or a medicine

or both?

Red bull

Chocolate

Nicotine

Refined Sugar

Alcohol

Paracetamol

Cannabis

Cocaine

Mushrooms

Heroin

Aspirin

Coffee

A drug is any substance that changes the way the body or

mind works.

How do drugs affect the body?

What is Health?

Learning Objectives:

To understand what health is.

To know what we do that is detrimental to our well-being.