Health Education for 7th Graders about Self-Esteem and Body Image

1. SELF-ESTEEM

2. Self Esteem
◦A measure of how much you value, respect, and
feel confident about yourself
◦What kinds of things affect your self-esteem?
◦How can you increase your self-esteem?

3. Self-Esteem

4. Self Esteem
◦Do Something You’ve Been Putting Off
◦Gratitude
◦Treat Yourself Like Your Best Friend

5. BODY IMAGE

6. Body Image:
The way you see and imagine your body.
Unhealthy Body Image: to feel uncomfortable with your
body. People who have an unhealthy body image often
compare their body with others. In fact, they may not see
themselves accurately.
Healthy Body Image: to accept and feel good about your
body, being comfortable with your appearance

7. Body Image:
The way you see and imagine your body.

8. Having a Healthy Body Image—
You’re more Beautiful than you think!

9. Body Image and the Media:
Can you believe what you see?

10. What would you choose? Choose to
be beautiful!!!

11. Be Careful with Your Words
especially those you say about yourself

12. An Unhealthy Body Image
can lead to serious health problems
and diseases.
Eating Disorders – an eating disorder is a disease in which a person
has and unhealthy concern with his or her body weight and
shape.
Anorexia Nervosa – an eating disorder that includes self-starvation,
an unhealthy body image and extreme weight loss.
Bulimia Nervosa – an eating disorder in which a person eats a
large amounts of food and then tries to rid their body of the food.