Understanding Your Health

Understanding

Your Health

Mr. Winston

� Today we are going to learn about …

◦ Keeping your physical, mental/emotional and social

health in balance.

◦ How daily decisions contribute to wellness.

Objectives

� What is wellness?

� Chat all the words that come to mind when you

think of good health.

� Compare your list with those of your classmates.

Discussion Questions

� Health

� Wellness

Vocabulary Words

� There’s much more to good health than just being

physically fit and being free from illness.

� If you had a friend who was always putting

him/herself down, would you consider him/her
healthy?

� What about a classmate who was always picking

fights with other students?

Your Total Health

� Health is a combination of physical, mental,

emotional, and social well-being.

� The key to good health is keeping a

balanced health triangle.

The Health Triangle

� What is this thing called health?

Video

� Physical health is taking care of your body

� Eating well balanced meals

� Being physically active

� Getting enough rest

� Regularly seeing a doctor

Physical Health

� Mental and emotional health is liking and accepting

yourself for who you are.

� Finding solutions to problems

� Expressing emotions in healthy ways

� Finding positive ways to manage stress

Mental and Emotional Health

� Social health is getting along with other people.

� Being a caring family member

� Making and keeping friends

� Giving and receiving support when it’s needed

Social Health

� Three of the following four people have

unbalanced health triangles.

� What could they do to balance all the sides?

Four Health Triangles

� Student #1 is an intelligent student.

� He spends most of his free time on his computer

so he doesn’t have much time for family or
friends.

� He keeps physically fit by jogging alone several

times per week.

Health Triangle #1

� Student #2 loves sports and plays on the soccer

and baseball teams.

� He doesn’t do very well with his school work

though.

� He tries to avoid his problems by playing video

games with his friends.

Health Triangle #2

� Student #3 spends a lot of her time with her

friends.

� They watch movies, listen to music and go

shopping.

� She gets good grades except for physical

education class.

� She doesn’t get much activity and can’t keep up

with the rest of the class.

Health Triangle #3

� Student #4 has a few close friends and sees them

mostly on the weekends.

� Most weeknights she is busy with homework and

spending time with her family.

� She bikes to school everyday and twice a week

she has a gymnastics class.

Health Triangle #4

� Wellness is much more than just being healthy.

� Wellness is an overall state of well-being, or total

health.

What is Wellness?

� Every decision you make can affect your wellness.

� For example, healthy snack choices like fruit or

yogurt instead of chips or candy will satisfy your
hunger and contribute to your wellness.

� Doing your homework or riding your bike after

school are healthier ways to spend your time than
playing video games.

Wellness

� Developing good daily habits now will have

positive long-term effects on your health and
wellness!

Wellness