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On your own paper: In a minimum of 3 sentences, explain the phrase, “You are what you eat”.

On your own paper: In a minimum of 3 sentences, explain the phrase, “You are what you eat”. Chapter 1—Wellness and Food Choices. Wellness—reaching for your personal overall best level of health. Includes physical, mental, emotional and social aspects

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On your own paper: In a minimum of 3 sentences, explain the phrase, “You are what you eat”.

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  1. On your own paper: In a minimum of 3 sentences, explain the phrase, “You are what you eat”.

  2. Chapter 1—Wellness and Food Choices

  3. Wellness—reaching for your personal overall best level of health. Includes physical, mental, emotional and social aspects • Taking positive steps to improve your current health and prevent future health problems • Recognizing and accepting the responsibility you have for your health • The key to wellness is accepting and managing your limits and making the most of who you are

  4. Physical Health—normal functioning of the body systems and having enough energy for daily living, a normal growth rate, resistance to illness, and the ability to relax and sleep well • Things to do for physical health:

  5. Mental and Emotional Outlook—how you deal with daily life and how you feel about yourself. • This aspect can affect your physical health, help you cope with change, handle problems & emotions, and work towards your goals

  6. Social Well Being—People with high levels of social health: • 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 their values

  7. Nutrition & Active Living • Lifestyle—includes how you live your life and all the things you do—for a healthful lifestyle, you need both good nutrition and active living • Nutrition—how the food you eat affects your body • Variety of foods • Adequate amounts • Nutrients—chemicals that nourish your body—found in foods • Nutrition not only affects your day to day life, but also your life in the future • Active living—at least 60 minutes of moderately intense physical activity each day

  8. Influences on food choices: • People around you—family, friends • Culture—the shared beliefs, values and behavior of a group of people. Could refer to your local community, ethnic community, nation or part of the world • Available food supply—what is available where you live • Schedules/energy/budget—all affect food choices. Resources—the things such as time, money, and energy that help you reach a goal or complete a task

  9. Advertising and media—make us aware of food and information about it • Knowledge about food, nutrition and wellness—when you know more, you can make more healthy choices • Miscellaneous—age, attitudes, emotions, health, goals

  10. Has food advertising ever helped you make a food decision? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Tx7Zw_IPE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUjz_eiIX8k&feature=related

  11. Steps to wellness: Decision making to improve your wellness: • Identify the decision to be made • Collect information and identify your resources • Identify possible choices • Weigh the choices, consider pros/cons/consequences • Choose the best option • Take action • Evaluate your decision—would you decide differently if you did it again? Did you reach your goal?

  12. Action plan—a step by step approach to identifying and reaching your goals Tips for making an action plan for wellness: • Set realistic goals • Decide on a plan • Identify small, achievable steps • Take action • Stick with it • Get support • Check your progress • Reward yourself

  13. SMART Goals • Specific—how will you know when you reached it? • Measurable—break it down into little pieces • Attainable—how will you do this? • Realistic—can you really do this? • Timebound—what is your deadline?

  14. SMART Goals--write one related to health/wellness with your partner. Be sure to include all the elements. • Specific—how will you know when you reached it? • Measurable—break it down into little pieces • Attainable—how will you do this? • Realistic—can you really do this? • Timebound—what is your deadline?

  15. Time to trade! • Trade the written goal with another team. Using colored pens, mark each of the following elements: • In yellow: Specific—how will you know when you reached it? • In green: Measurable—break it down into little pieces • In blue: Attainable—how will you do this? • In pink: Realistic—can you really do this? • In orange: Timebound—what is your deadline?

  16. Now, fix the goal!! • Re-write the goal to include all the elements and pass to another group. • Using colored pens, mark each of the following elements: • In yellow: Specific—how will you know when you reached it? • In green: Measurable—break it down into little pieces • In blue: Attainable—how will you do this? • In pink: Realistic—can you really do this? • In orange: Timebound—what is your deadline?

  17. The final goal • Create your OWN personal goal related to health/wellness using the form. Please write in pencil and make sure I review your goal with before you turn it in. • Then, complete the crossword puzzle on the back of your notetaking guide

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