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Lifestyle Diseases

Lifestyle diseases are illnesses resulting from everyday choices like diet, exercise, and habits. Learn to prevent and manage them through education, health decisions, and environmental awareness. Explore how heredity and environment also impact your health.

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Lifestyle Diseases

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  1. Lifestyle Diseases Factors that Affect our Health

  2. Lifestyle Diseases • Definition: Any disease (illness or disorder) that is a result of daily choices.

  3. Factors Affecting Your Health 1) Lifestyle Choices- • Heart Disease, Diabetes – Exercise, Nutrition • Lung Disease – Smoking • Liver Disease – Alcohol Abuse • Accidents – Drunk Driving, Distractions • *Can be prevented

  4. How to prevent Lifestyle Diseases • 1) Educate yourself • 2) Make better health decisions • 3) Take advantage of programs • Exercise classes • Stress management classes • Physicals / flu shots • Smoking cessation classes

  5. Heredity • Some tend to develop certain diseases while others don’t. -High Cholesterol -Dementia *Really can’t control but can slow down process etc..

  6. Environment Factors impacting health from your surroundings 1) Passes from one person to another 2)Air 3) Water 4) Food *Some can be preventable

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