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Influences on Our Health: Factors that Shape Your Well-being

Understand the various factors that have an impact on your health and well-being. Learn how your choices, thoughts, and actions, as well as heredity, environment, culture, traditions, and social circle, can shape your overall health.

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Influences on Our Health: Factors that Shape Your Well-being

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  1. Chapter 1 Lesson 2 Influences on our Health

  2. What Affects Your Health • The choices you make and the way you think and act have a strong effect on your total health • These are the parts of your life you have control over • There are outside factors that influence your health

  3. Putting the Puzzle Together • Think of a person as a jigsaw puzzle • The factors that influence that persons health are the pieces of the puzzle • Each persons’ puzzle has different pieces that when put together form a unique picture • SEE FIGURE 1.3 PAGE 8

  4. Heredity and Environment • Heredity – The passing of traits from biological parents to children • Skin, eye and hair color • Body build • Growth patterns • Tendency to get certain diseases • Read page 9

  5. Heredity and Environment • Environment – All living things and non living things that surround you • Your home, neighborhood, school • Air you breathe and the water you drink • Read page 9

  6. Other Influences • Along with you heredity and physical environment, many other factors in your life influence your health and your health choices • See Figure 1.4 Page 10

  7. Other Influences • Culture and traditions • Friends • What you see and hear

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