Welcome to Health!

Q: What is Health?

A: The overall wellbeing of your body, mind, and relationships with others.

Emotional Health • How your react to events

in your life

• Expressing and controlling your emotions

Social • Getting along with others

• Accepts others

• Joins clubs and teams

• Knows how to act (school vs. home)

Physical • Gets 8 hours of sleep/night

• Eats healthy

• Exercises

• No drugs

Mental • Attitude

• Self Esteem

• Morals and values

• Goals

Average Life Expectancy (How long will you live)

• 1900’s

• 2012

45 years old

78 years old

Why has the number gone up?

Who usually lives longer? Men or Women?

Technology, nutrition, sanitation

Women

Top causes of death in 1900

• Flu

• Pneumonia

• Tuberculosis

• Bronchitis

• Scarlet Fever

Top causes of death today?• Heart Disease

• Cancer

• AIDS

• Liver Disease

• Stroke

What is the number one cause of death among teenagers?

Accidents!

Two types of Age:

• Chronological Age: How old you are!

• Physiological Age: How old you look!

What effects your physiological age?•Sleep

•Exercise

•Smoking

•Drinking

Choices (you don’t have to write this slide down)

• Everyday you make over 100 choices that affect your health, whether you mean to or not.

• These choices will either help or harm you!

It is all about your choices:

• How do you get lung cancer?

• How do you get liver disease?

• How do you get AIDS?

• How do you get heart disease?

• How do car accidents happen?