Unit 5 Lesson 5: Planning for Wellness

Question 1

What is the importance of eating a healthy diet

Answer 1

• Vitamins and minerals in the diet boost immunity
• Contributes to maintaining a healthy weight
• Helps protect against obesity, diabetes, heart diseases, and some cancers
• Contributes to strong bones and teeth
• Improves digestive system function

Question 2

What is the importance of getting exersize

Answer 2

• Strengthens muscles and bones
• Improves mental health, mood, and memory
• Reduces risk of chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease
• Contributes to healthy skin, lower blood pressure, strengthened lungs, and improved digestion
• Boosts energy, helps control weight, and improves sleep

Question 3

What is the importance of sleeping well

Answer 3

• Improves memory and cognition
• Reduces inflammation, reduces pain, and strengthens immunity
• Sharpens attention and improves grades or work performance
• Improves mood and physical fitness
• Contributes to healthy skin, hormone production, and cardiovascular health

Question 4

What is the importance of going to the docotr

Answer 4

• Detect problems before they become serious
• Able to get early treatment for disease
• Access to health information
• Longer life

Question 5

What is the importnac eof avoiding or quiting smoking

Answer 5

• Better breathing, circulation, and sense of smell
• Younger looking skin
• Fertility improves or is not compromised
• Whiter teeth
• Heart rate and carbon monoxide in blood return to normal levels

Question 6

Behaviors that Improve Your Health

Answer 6

• Eat a Healthy Diet
• Get Exercise
• Sleep Well
• Go to the doctor
• Avoid or Quit Smoking

Question 7

Complete wellness, body and mind, includes how many areas

Answer 7

Complete wellness, body and mind, includes eight areas that we can identify

Question 8

What is the importnace of keeping these 8 area in blance

Answer 8

Working to keep all the areas in balance while improving weak areas will help overall wellness. Each area affects all the others—if your financial situation is unstable, that can lead to emotional problems. Likewise, if the environment you inhabit is polluted or unsafe, you can have physical and other problems. Every area works together to create wellness, and deficits in one can bring others down in response. Working to make all areas of one’s life healthy will support health and wellness.

Question 9

What are some basic wellness practices

Answer 9

If you follow basic wellness practices, like eating well, exercising, and getting enough sleep, your body is less susceptible to disease.

Question 10

What do social connections improve

Answer 10

Social connections are very important for our health throughout the life span as they have been shown to improve immunity, physical health, and mental health, while increasing longevity.

Question 11

People with many social connections have been shown to engage in more

Answer 11

healthy behaviors like exercise and eating well. The science is in—on balance, a healthy social life impacts your health more than many other behavioral factors like obesity and smoking.

Question 12

What is the importance so self-image

Answer 12

Cultivating a positive self-image, or mental picture we have of ourselves, can also contribute to wellness. How we view our characteristics like intelligence, beauty, talent, and likeability affects how we feel emotionally. We each develop a personal view of ourselves as we grow up, partly from the view of ourselves we see reflected back from caregivers, friends, teachers, and others we interact with. If we are constantly criticized or ignored, we may develop a more negative self-image. But even if the past has led us to see ourselves in a bad light, we can change this to a more positive image by focusing on our strengths, defining our goals, refraining from comparing ourselves to others, and learning to accept and love ourselves for who we are. Developing positive social relationships with supportive friends can also help us grow towards self-acceptance and a positive self-image.

Question 13

Hand in hand with self-image and positive social connections comes a sense of purpose or meaning in life:

Answer 13

spirituality

Question 14

What is the importance of spirituality

Answer 14

Some people experience meaning primarily through religious practice and viewpoints, while others find meaning in their lives through values, ethics, and morals that may not be connected to religious practice. Finding one’s place in life and feeling valued in society can help us define our existence and feel connected to something larger than ourselves. For many, this may be best expressed through religion, but spiritual fitness is available to anyone, no matter whether they are involved in organized religion or not.

Question 15

what percent of people deal with stress

Answer 15

Stress is a major contributor to health problems, with 77 percent of people reporting that they experience physical symptoms caused by stress.

Question 16

Where does stress coem from

Answer 16

Stress can come from many factors, including job or school pressures, health problems, money issues, trouble in relationships with friends or family, and even worry about the world.

Question 17

In 2017, a study by the American Psychological Association found that the top three stressors people feel result from worries about the

Answer 17

future of our nation, money, and work.

Question 18

The body’s stress response is a physiological response that is meant to help us. what is fight or flight reaction

Answer 18

When we see a tiger charging towards us, the body’s fight or flight reaction—an instinctual response that prepares the body to run or stay and fight—might save us from death. When a threat is perceived, the body sends out signals to increase the heart and breathing rates and prepare the muscles for action.

Question 19

What happens when you feel stress all the time

Answer 19

But when we feel stress every day, often when there is no option to use our physiological response to run or punch, this chronic stress has a deleterious effect on our health.

Question 20

Common detrimental stress management strategies involve

Answer 20

smoking, drinking, doing drugs, fighting, bullying, skipping school, eating disorders, or going into isolation. All of these actually harm your health more, and most will lead to higher levels of stress eventually anyway. Developing a stress management plan as part of a total wellness plan can help you choose better strategies for managing your stress, ones that will lead to better health in the future as well as today.

Question 21

There are many ways to deal positively with stress.

Answer 21

You can give yourself a mini-vacation from a problem by reading a book, taking a bath, watching TV, going to the park, or listening to music. Talking to a friend, a mentor, or a parent can also help you work through a problem and get perspective, helping you lower your level of stress. Exercise is a great way to relieve stress. Some people will use complementary health practices or alternative therapies—various treatments and practices not included in mainstream medical practice—to help manage stress. These practices can include massage, meditation, yoga, chiropractic, acupuncture, and aromatherapy. Many of these practices are easy to learn to do yourself and can become part of your wellness and stress management plan.

Tackling Stress