First class CSBII 1st years

1. Planing for a healthy lifetime
The Health Triangle
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2. The Health Triangle
Words to know
- Health
- Wellness
- Prevention

3. The Health Triangle
Q: What is Health?
A: Is a combination of physical, mental and
emotional, and social well-being

4. The Health Triangle
• Which side of the health triangle are these
teens working on?

5. The Health Triangle
Elements of Physical Health:
• Keep fit
• Eat well-balance diet
• Maintain your ideal weight
• Practice good grooming habits
• Avoid tobacco, alcohol, and drugs
• Get plenty of rest

6. The Health Triangle
• You are
what you eat

7. The Health Triangle
Elements of Mental/Emotional Health:
• Accept yourself and like who you are.
• Express your feelings in a healthy way.
• Develop your thinking and decision-
making skills.
• Strive to learn new information.
• Learn ways of dealing with problems
• Learn how to handle stress.

8. The Health Triangle
Elements of social Health:
• Get along with family members.
• Make and keep friends.
• Work well in a group.
• Disagree with other without fighting.
• Give and get support when it is needed.

9. The Health Triangle
Making Health Connections:
• The three sides of your health are
connected. Each side affects the other
two. Being healthy means that your health
triangle is balanced.
• Lets see some examples (Page 6)

10. The Health Triangle
• Is you health triangle balanced?
• Nobody’s health triangle is perfectly
balanced all the time.
• However, a healthy person is aware
enough to know that he or she must make
a change when one side starts to get out
of balance.

11. The Health Triangle
• Personal inventory (page 7)
• How healthy are you?

12. The Health Triangle
• Wellness is the
achievement of a high
level of overall health.
• Working on wellness,
this high level of
health can last many
years.

13. The Health Triangle
Key of wellness: Prevention of illness
• Prevention is keeping something from
happening. Ways of preventing illness:
– Don’t take unnecessary chances or risks.
– Know your weaknesses.
– Keep informed
– Be responsible. Do not leave your health to
chance.

14. The Health Triangle
Q: Can you say you are healthy when you
are not sick?
A: No. There are several levels of health.
• See figure 1.2 and answer in which level
you think you are

15. The Health Triangle
• Classwork:
• Using figure 1.3 “Good health Checklist” to
see whether you are on the road to
wellness. If you are not complying to one
of the statements, write what you should
do to stay in track.