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Influences on Your Health

Health. Influences on Your Health. Heredity. All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents. Physical traits: eye color, hair color, height More susceptible to diseases Influence personality, intelligence, talent. Environment. Physical environment

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Influences on Your Health

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  1. Health Influences on Your Health

  2. Heredity All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents. Physical traits: eye color, hair color, height More susceptible to diseases Influence personality, intelligence, talent.

  3. Environment Physical environment Safe environment: good PMSE Poor environment: high crime rates = stress. Social environment Family, peers, adult role models. Develop values and morals

  4. Culture Collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group. Examples: ethnic group, community, nation. Influences on health: food, religion, traditions.

  5. Attitude /Behavior The way you view situations: optimistic vs. pessimistic. Idea of learning from challenges. THINK POSITITVE Bad Attitude

  6. Media Various methods of communicating information Radio, television, film, newspapers, internet Not always reliable information Warped idea normal = bad body image

  7. Media Various methods of communicating information Radio, television, film, newspapers, internet Not always reliable information Warped idea normal = bad body image

  8. Peers Freinds and other people in your age group Peer pressure “Well if your friend jumped off of the bringe, would you too?”

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