HEALTH TRIANGLE

SIDES OF THE WELLNESS TRIANGLE

Mental Health – feelings about yourself

Social Health – how you get along with others

Physical Health - how your body systems work together

MENTAL HEALTH

How you relate to others, how well you meet the demands of everyday life,

Develop thinking skills See mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow Accept responsibility for your actions Stand up for beliefs and values In touch with your feelings and express them

appropriately Can deal with frustrations and disappointment Don’t dwell on negative thoughts

SOCIAL HEALTH

Ability to make and keep friends Work and play in cooperative ways Can seek and lend support when you need to Show RESPECT for yourself Good communication

PHYSICAL HEALTH

Can cope with stresses of everyday life Need proper nutrition Regular physical activity Enough rest and sleep Practice good hygiene Regular medical and dental check-ups Resisting harmful substances

WELLNESS

All three sides of the triangle must be balanced to be considered in good health standing.

When all three sides are balanced, that is considered wellness.

3 equal sides3 uneven sides

WELLNESS CONTINUUM

A way of living each day that includes choices and decisions based on healthy attitudes.

Health and Wellness Continuum (pg 7)

List your favorite activities or hobbies. Get into groups of three and then put them into

the three categories of wellness.

WHAT CAN WELLNESS AFFECT?

How you look, feel, act Attitudes School, Work and Recreation Performance How you feel about YOURSELF How successful your relationships are Determines your goals AND your ability to

accomplish them

STEPS TO RESPONSIBLE HEALTH

Determine how much you know about your health Obtain accurate information about how to stay

healthy or IMPROVE your health Take action!!!

What are YOUR strengths and weaknesses??? Pair up and discuss, then we will go around the room

and your PARTNER will say one of your strengths AND one of your weaknesses

LIFESTYLE FACTORS

Personal behaviors and habits that are related to how a person lives, which can determine their level of health.

7-8 hours of sleep per night Eat nutritious food from each food group each day

(balanced daily diet) Refrain from tobacco products Eat breakfast daily 20-30 minutes of nonstop vigorous activity 3x’s per

week Do not use alcohol or drugs Maintain recommended weight

In order to practice good health habits you need to believe that there is some benefit for you.

OPTIMISTS ARE LESS LIKELY TO SUFFER ILLNESS AND DIE YOUNG THAN

PESSIMISTS. SEE THE POSITIVE!!!

WHAT ARE SOME BENEFITS OF BEING FIT???

At ease with yourself

More confident and self-assured

Emotionally stable

Future success

Confidence

THINGS THAT CAN AFFECT YOUR LEVEL OF HEALTH

Heredity Behavior Environment

Physical Social Cultural

How do each of these things affect your health and wellness??

HEREDITY

All the traits and properties that are passed along biologically from both parents to a child.

Disease can be hereditary!!!

Think of things that “run in your family” these are aspects of your health that you want to pay CLOSE attention to…heart disease, diabetes, cancer…

ENVIRONMENT

SOCIAL family and people you come into daily contact with

PEERS….PEER PRESSURE (trying to fit in and become part of the group)

CULTURAL beliefs, customs and behaviors of a group.

Understanding different cultures may improve your SOCIAL health

PHYSICAL air quality, area you live in, medical care, immunizations

Can contribute to your sense of WELLBEING

BEHAVIOR

Is the aspect of your life that you have the most CONTROL over This is the way you CHOOSE to act within your environment

Think of things that “run in your family”….how can you change or control whether or not that happens to you???