WHAT INFLUENCES YOUR HEALTH?

What Affects Your Health?

• Both internal (personal) and external (outside) factors affect your health.

• You have control over many of these factors, but you can’t control all of them.

• The factors that affect your health are heredity, physical environment, cultural background, and family traditions.

• Each of these factors can have a positive or negative influence on health.

Factors

• Heredity is the passing on of traits from biological parents to children.

• Genetic factors or traits that are passed on through heredity include skin, eye, and hair color; body type and size; growth patterns; and the likelihood of getting certain diseases.

Environment

• Your environment is all the living and nonliving things that surround you. It includes physical and social factors that contribute to individual and community health.

• Social factor environmental factors includes access to education and jobs and presences of gang activity.

Physical Factors

• Physical factors include:• Your home,

neighborhood, and school.

• The air you breathe and the water you drink.

• The climate in which you live.

Your Heath Choices

• Your family, friends, and the media can all contribute to your decisions. These influence your thinking.

Family and Friends

• Your family has traditions that influence many aspects of your life, such as the foods you eat, the holidays you celebrate, and the goals you set. Some of these traditions are part of your cultural background.

• Culture is the beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.

The Media

• Another powerful influence on your individual and community health is the media.

• Media is the various methods for communicating information.

• Evaluate is determine the quality of.

Advertisement Project

• With a partner you are going to make an advertisement for a health or fitness product that advances one or more claims.

• Since advertisements don’t make their claims openly, they try to trick the consumer to buy their product. Your advertisement is going to include at least two of the following claiming….

• Suggests something is true.

• Use images or catchy phrases.

• Claims the product is the best out.

• Claims everyone is using it.

• Claims it will make you happy or well liked.

• Claims you will have abilities like a professional athlete.