Wellness & Food Choices

1. Wellness & Food Choices Chapter 1

2. Wellness means reaching for your personal overall best level of health • Means: • Paying attention to your total health picture • Taking positive steps to improve your current health and help prevent future health problems • Recognizing and accepting the responsibity you have for your own health

3. Good Physical Health • Refers to normal function of your body systems • “picture of health” includes bright, clear eyes, firm skin, clean teeth and healthy gums, good muscle tone and erect posture • Means having enough energy for every day living, resistance to illness, ability to relax and sleep well

4. Take Action for Physical Health • Follow a varied and healthful eating plan with many different foods, including fruits, veggies, and whole grains • Consume about 8 cups of water/fluids a day • Include plenty of physical activity in your life • Eat breakfast each morning

5. Cont……… • Get about 8 hrs of sleep each night • Practice good hygiene • Take safety precautions such as wearing your seatbelt • Get regular medical and dental check ups • Avoid tobacco, alcoholic beverages, harmful drugs • Keep informed about nutrition and wellness

6. Mental & Emotional Outlook • Includes how you deal with daily life and • how you feel about yourself • Helps you cope with change, face your problems, handle anger, frustration and disappointment • Makes you able to work towards your goals • Become sensitive to others, open mindedness, self esteem, self confidence

7. Social Well Being • Have a high level if you: • Can praise and accept others • Enjoy friends of both genders • Are helpful and considerate • Can accept rules and be responsible • Handle conflict in a constructive way • Communicate well • Handle peer pressure without compromising your values

8. Nutrition & Active Learning • Lifestyle – how you live your life and all the things you do • Nutrition – how the food you eat affects your body • Nutrients – chemicals that nourish your body

9. Getting the right balance of nutrients help you look and feel and perform at your best • Food choices today affect your health and quality for years to come • Active living, at least 60 minutes of moderately intense physical activity each day

10. Why You Eat What You Do • Overall eating style is unique • Whatever food choices keep in mind any food is included in your eating plan • Many influences on your food choices

11. People Around You • Family influence your food preferences and eating habits more than anyone else • Grown up eating the foods your family like • Learning family food traditions • Your friends influence your food choices too

12. Culture Connection • Culture– the shared belief, values, and behavior of a group of people • Your local community, ethnic community, nation or your part of the world • What cultural foods do you eat???

13. Available Food Supply • What you can buy at the grocery store • What you grow in your garden

14. Schedules, Energy, Budget • Resources are things such as time, money, and personal energy that help you reach a goal or complete a task • If you are short on money you buy hamburger • To prepare a quick family meal, use food partly or full prepared

15. Advertising & Media • Ads make you aware of new foods • Provide information about nutrition • May lead you to buy foods whether or not you really need them

16. Knowing about food, nutrition, and wellness • More you know the more able you are to make food choices that promote wellness

17. Steps to Wellness • Practicing wellness can affect you positively today and into the future • Deciding on Wellness • Each day you make many decisions • Will you eat breakfast? • Will you walk to school or get a ride? • Will you snack on an apple or candy bar?

18. Wellness • 1. Identify the decision to be made • Some are simple to define • Others are more complex

19. 2. collect information and identify your resources • Take time to get facts from RELIABLE sources • Use your critical thinking skills to help judge what you see, read, and hear • Consider your resources such as time, energy and budget

20. 3. Identify the possible choice • When it comes to food and physical activity you have many options • Stay active by jogging alone, playing tennis, etc

21. 4. Weigh the possible choices • What are the pros and cons? • Think about what’s important to you and why • When health is a priority, it’s easier to make decisions for wellness

22. 5. choose the best option • Make choice based on facts, goals, priorities and values not peer pressure • Your friend’s milkshake may not be your best snack choice if you are watching your weight

23. 6. Take Action • Your decisions won’t benefit you if you don’t act on it

24. 7. Evaluate your decisions • Did you get the result you expected? • How did your decision affect others? • What did you learn? • Would you make the same choice again?

25. Taking Action for Wellness • Action plan – is a step by step approach to identifying and reaching your goals • Make an action plan for wellness • Shape your life and personal success

26. Tips for an action plan that works for you: • 1. set realistic goals • Match goals to your abilities and needs • Don’t aim for perfection • 2. decide on a plan • Reach the same goal in several ways • Use decision making process to help choose the best alternative

27. 3. identify small, achievable steps • Write them down • If your goal is to run 5 miles, start with a shorter distance • 4. take action • Just do it • Plan that’s never acted on can’t succeed

28. 5. stick with it • Challenges crop up • You’re low on energy or time • Find creative ways to get back on track • 6. get support • Ask family, friends, teachers to encourage you • Return the support to them

29. 7. check your progress • evaluate your efforts • Are your goals realistic? • Rethink your plan and try again • 8. reward yourself • When you reach a goal, reward yourself • Go to a movie, buy a new CD

30. Summary • Wellness involves all aspects of your health. Taking responsibility for your own health is also part of wellness • Good nutrition and active living are important for promoting wellness

31. Many influences help determine your food preferences and eating habits • Making responsible decisions and following an action plan can help you practice wellness

32. Activity • Choose a goal to improve your wellness • Use the tips for making an action plan work to help you reach it