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What Influences Your Health?

What Influences Your Health?. In this lesson, you will Learn About… How heredity and environment affect your health. Other factors that influence your health. What Influences Your Health?. The Vocabulary terms in this lesson are: Heredity . Environment . Culture . Media . Evaluate .

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What Influences Your Health?

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  1. What Influences Your Health? In this lesson, you will Learn About… • How heredity and environment affect your health. • Other factors that influence your health.

  2. What Influences Your Health? The Vocabularyterms in this lesson are: • Heredity. • Environment. • Culture. • Media. • Evaluate.

  3. What Affects Your Health? Several factors affect your health: • Heredity • Environment • Family, culture, and friends • Media Some of these factors are under your control, while others are not. Making healthy choices means understanding and accepting what is beyond your control and making the most of those you can control.

  4. Heredity Heredity is the passing on of traits from biological parents to children. Inherited traits are “built-in”— you can’t choose them or avoid them.

  5. Environment The environment includes social and physical factors that affect individual and community health. Examples of social environmental factors: • Access to education • Jobs • Presence of gang activity Examples of physical environmental factors: • A person’s home, neighborhood, and school • Air and water • Climate

  6. Your Health Choices Along with heredity and environment, several other aspects of your life influence your health and the health decisions that you make: • Family • Friends • Media

  7. Family and Friends Cultural factors can sometimes decrease or increase health risks. Some of your family traditions are part of your culture. Your friends can also influence your decisions in either positive or negative ways.

  8. The Influence of the Media Media includes TV and radio, movies, books, newspapers, magazines, billboards, and the Internet. Media and technology can influence healthin both good and bad ways. To be able to positively manipulate the information from media sources, you need to evaluate, or determine the quality of, everything you see and hear.

  9. Reviewing Terms and Facts Environment • ___________ is all the living and nonliving things that surround you.

  10. Reviewing Terms and Facts • Describe how you can use information about inherited traits to make health decisions.

  11. Reviewing Terms and Facts • Identify three factors, other than heredity and physical environment, that can influence a person’s health. • Family • Friends • Media

  12. Reviewing Terms and Facts • A friend says, “ I don’t need to know about my family’s heath history because there’s nothing I can do about it anyway.” How might you respond?

  13. Vocabulary Review Heredity is the passing on of traits from biological parents to children.

  14. Vocabulary Review Your environment is all the living and nonliving things that surround you.

  15. Vocabulary Review Culture is the beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.

  16. Vocabulary Review Media are the various methods for communicating information.

  17. Vocabulary Review To evaluate somethingis to determine its quality.

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