Wellness Chapter 1: Living a Healthy Life

The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group

• peers
• health
• wellness
• culture

Avoiding harmful behaviors such as the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs and sexual activity before marriage.

• abstinence
• peers
• culture
• wellness

An overall state of well-being, or total health

• health
• wellness
• peers
• media

All forms of mass communication

• health
• media
• heredity
• peers

The sum of your surroundings

• abstinence
• wellness
• prevention
• environment

Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk

• culture
• wellness
• abstinence
• cumulative risks

Planned learning experiences that help people make healthy choices

• health education
• health
• prevention
• health literacy

Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others

• peers
• media
• prevention
• risk behaviors

People of the same age who share similar interests

• media
• health
• peers
• wellness

All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents

• health
• media
• heredity
• peers