Chapter 1 Lesson 2 Influences on our Health

What Affects Your Health

• The choices you make and the way you think and act have a strong effect on your total health

• These are the parts of your life you have control over

• There are outside factors that influence your health

Putting the Puzzle Together

• Think of a person as a jigsaw puzzle

• The factors that influence that persons health are the pieces of the puzzle

• Each persons’ puzzle has different pieces that when put together form a unique picture

• SEE FIGURE 1.3 PAGE 8

Heredity and Environment

• Heredity – The passing of traits from biological parents to children

• Skin, eye and hair color

• Body build

• Growth patterns

• Tendency to get certain diseases

• Read page 9

Heredity and Environment

• Environment – All living things and non living things that surround you

• Your home, neighborhood, school

• Air you breathe and the water you drink

• Read page 9

Other Influences

• Along with you heredity and physical environment, many other factors in your life influence your health and your health choices

• See Figure 1.4 Page 10

Other Influences

• Culture and traditions

• Friends

• What you see and hear