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Lessons
1 Wellness and Your Health 4
2 Influences on Health and
Wellness
8
3 Making Choices About Your
Health
12
4 Using Life Skills to Improve
Health
14
Chapter Review 18
Life Skills in Action 20
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 “ My
spend time with my friends. And, I just
grades are good. I am able to
made the track team. It looks like

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all of my hard work finally paid off.

Health IQ
PRE-READING
2. Mental health is the way 4. A set of behaviors by
Answer the following multiple- that you which you live is your
choice questions to find out
a. recognize and cope a. attitude.
what you already know about
with feelings. b. heredity.
health and wellness.
When you’ve finished this
b. cope with the demands of c. life skills.
chapter, you’ll have the
daily life. d. lifestyle.
opportunity to change your c. interact with people.
answers based on what you’ve d. all of the above 5. Which of the following activ-
learned. ities is part of good hygiene?
3. Which of the following a. brushing your teeth
influences is NOT an b. getting plenty of exercise
1. Which of the following environmental influence c. avoiding drugs and alcohol
defines good emotional on your health?
d. eating a healthy diet
health? a. peer pressure
a. getting plenty of exercise b. pollen 6. Which of the following
b. being a dependable and c. microscopic organisms activities is an example
loyal friend d. air quality of preventive
c. accepting your strengths healthcare?
and weaknesses
a. taking aspirin for a headache
d. accepting new ideas and b. taking antibiotics to prevent
concepts infection
c. wrapping a twisted ankle
d. eating nutritious meals

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 Wellness
u’ll Do
the four parts of health.
and Your
he difference between health and wellness.
Learn Health
Claudia’s doctor called to tell Claudia
essment the results of her exam. She told
Claudia that all of her tests showed that
f
she is in excellent physical health.
Write
things that you can do to keep your mind and body healthy.
Good physical health is important, but there is more to health
than feeling good physically. is a condition of your
Health
physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being. Each part of
your health is equally important. To be healthy, you must bal-
ance all of these parts.

The Physical Part of Health

When you think about your health, you probably focus on your
physical health. Physical health is the part of health that describes
the condition of the body. The following suggestions are ways to
take care of your body and to maintain your physical health.
• Get 8 hours of sleep every night.
• Eat nutritious food and a balanced diet.
• Get plenty of exercise.
• Practice good hygiene. Hygiene is the practice of keeping
clean. Cleanliness helps prevent the spread of diseases.
• Avoid drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

Figure 1 Teens need at

least 8 hours of sleep each

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 night to stay healthy.

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 Figure 2 Your family is
an important part of
your emotional health.

The Emotional Part of Health

Your emotional health affects the way you see yourself and
respond to others. Emotional health is the way you recognize
and deal with your feelings. To maintain your emotional health,
you should try the following suggestions:
• Express your emotions in words rather than acting them
out. Show self-control, and think before you act.
• Accept your strengths and weaknesses, and respect yourself.
• Deal with sadness appropriately and in a timely manner.
Changes that happen to you during your teen years can affect
your emotional health. Added responsibility at both home and
school, new feelings, and your changing body can cause you to
have a wide range of emotions. Living with this range of emotions
is not always a pleasant experience for teens. However, experi-
encing these emotions is normal. Talk to your parents or the
school nurse if you are concerned about your emotional health.

The Mental Part of Health

Mental health has to do with the mind. How you deal with life’s
demands describes your mental health. Being mentally healthy
means that you can
• recognize and deal with stress in a positive way
• accept new ideas
• effectively solve problems
Habits that you think can affect only your physical health
may also affect your mental and emotional health. For
example, a poor diet and lack of sleep may leave you feeling
depressed and worried as well as physically tired.
Myth: Someone who is always laughing and smil- ing is probably em
Fact: Sometimes people use smiles and laughter as a way of hiding t
 Figure 3 Having friends is
very important for the
social health of teens.

The Social Part of Health

How well you get along with other people is a sign of your
social health. Social health is the part of health that describes the
way that you interact with people. Your family plays a large role
in the support and development of your social health. You learn
many of your social skills from your family. Throughout your
life, your social skills continue to develop as you interact with
people around you. Ways to improve your social skills include
the following:
a concept map to show how the four parts of health are necessary for total wellness.
• being considerate of other people and their needs
• showing respect to others
• being dependable
• supporting people you care about when they make the right
choices
• expressing your true feelings
• imagining how you would feel if you were in another person’s
place
• asking for help when you need it
Your relationships with others are important to healthy social
development. Healthy connections with your family, friends,
and groups that you have joined give you a sense of belonging
and help you feel good about yourself.
 Assess Your Health
paper, answer each item. Give yourself 4 points for each “almost always” response, 2 points for “some time” and 0 points for “almost never”
AlmostSome
Almost Never
Health Habit AlwaysTime
I exercise regularly.

I eat a variety of foods, including fruits and vegetables.

I find it easy to relax and express and my feelings.

I have close friends or relatives in whom I can confide.

I prepare for events that I know will be stressful to me.

I avoid risky behavior.

I practice good hygiene. Figure 4 Check your overall

28 means you have great health habits. health by taking this health
22 mean your health habits are good overall, but there is room for improvement. Scores of 7—14 indicate that manyassessment.
of your health habits need work.
mean that you are taking unecessary risks with your health.

Wellness Is Balanced Health

When all four parts of your health are balanced, you are in a
state
Interview your of good
doctor health.
or nurse. Wellness
Find out how is theastate
they perform yearlyofphysical
good health
exam on patients. Ask this person about the purpose of eac
achieved by balancing your physical, mental, emotional, and
social health. If you do not maintain a balance of the four parts
of health, you will not be functioning at your best.
One of the best ways to evaluate your health is to take a
health assessment. A health assessment is a set of questions
that allows you to evaluate each of the four parts of your health.
Take the quiz shown in the above figure. Is anything missing in
your overall health? If so, talk to your parents or a trusted adult
to find out how to get this part of your health back in balance.

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Using Vocabulary 6. Explain the difference
between health and wellness.
1. Define health.
2. Explain what wellness Critical Thinking
means. 7. Analyzing Ideas Brad is an excellent
3. Define health assessment. student. He spends most of his time
either working on homework or at
Understanding Concepts the computer. Which parts of his
4. What is good hygiene? health
5. Identify the four parts of health, could be out of balance? What could
and briefly describe each. he do to improve those parts of his
health?