Living a Healthy Life
In this chapter, you will Learn About…
 The concept of health and different ways to
achieve wellness.
 The skills needed to help you become and
stay healthy.
 The steps of the decision-making process.
 The goal-setting steps.
Your Health and Wellness
In this lesson, you will Learn About…
 The relationship between health and
wellness.
 Different ways to keep your physical,
mental/emotional, and social health in
balance.
Your Health and Wellness
The Vocabulary terms in this lesson are:
 Health
 Wellness
 Habit
Taking Charge of Your Health
Health is a combination of physical,
mental/emotional, and social well-being.
Maintaining Your Health Balance –
Physical
The table below shows some ways of
maintaining physical health.
Aspect
Physical
health
Description
Activities to Maintain
Physical Health
Get regular physical
activity, eat
The condition
nutritious foods,
of your body
avoid harmful
substances, and get
enough rest
Maintaining Your Health Balance –
Mental/Emotional
The table below shows some ways of
maintaining mental/emotional health.
Aspect
Description
Activities to Maintain
Mental/Emotional
Health
Mental/
emotional
health
Thoughts and Maintain a positive
feelings
attitude; take time to
study, to think, and
to express feelings
in healthy ways.
Maintaining Your Health Balance –
Social
The table below shows some ways of
maintaining social health.
Aspect
Description
Social
health
How you
relate to
other people
Activities to Maintain
Social Health
Communicate
effectively; spend
time with family and
friends
The Health Triangle
For good health, all three parts of health, physical,
mental/emotional, and social, must be balanced.
Wellness
Wellness is a state of
well-being, or
balanced health.
It can be achieved
through good health
habits.
Maintaining Wellness
To maintain wellness:
 Take care of health
problems as they come
up.
 Try to protect and
improve your health.
Your Personal Health
In this activity, you will find out the status
of your own health triangle.
 On the sheet provided to you, read each
statement and respond with YES or NO.
 Count the number of YES and NO answers
under each part of health to know how
balanced your health triangle is.
Your Personal Health
If you scored:
 5 or 6 YES answers for an area, you have good
health in that area.
 2 or less YES answers for an area, you need to
work on that area of health.
Reviewing Terms and Facts
1. Spending time with one’s family is a
part of
 Physical health
 Mental health
 Social health
Reviewing Terms and Facts
2.Good health habits help you maintain a
wellness
high level of _______.
Reviewing Terms and Facts
3.What are the three parts of the health
triangle?
The three parts of the health triangle are
 Physical health
 Mental/emotional health
 Social health
Thinking Critically
4.What is the relationship between
health and wellness?
Health is a combination of physical,
mental/emotional, and social well being.
Wellness is a state of well-being or balanced
health.
A person can achieve and maintain wellness
by having a balanced health triangle.
Vocabulary Review
Health is a combination of physical,
mental/emotional, and social wellbeing.
Vocabulary Review
Wellness is a state of well-being, or
balanced health.
Vocabulary Review
A habit is a pattern of behavior that
you follow almost without thinking.
Line up one of the short
edges of a sheet of paper
with one of the long edges
to form a triangle. Fold and
cut off the leftover
rectangle.
Fold the triangle in half,
then unfold. The folds will
form an X dividing four
equal sections.
Cut up one fold line, and
stop at the middle. This
forms two triangular flaps.
Draw an X on one tab, and
label the other three
Physical, Mental and Social.
Fold the X flap under the
other flap, and glue
together to make a threesided pyramid.
Write the main ideas about the three parts of
health on the back of the appropriate side of the
pyramid.
Rate your ability to make healthy decisions.
Take the Health Inventory for Chapter 1 at
http://www.glencoe.com/qe/qe129inv.php?qi=3
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