PE: Health Habits & Stress Management

Fueling for Performance

Athletes follow a structured diet for good body composition, athletic performance, and recovery. They eat a balanced diet to be effective in their performance.

Distracted Eating

Do not pay attention to their meal as they are distracted with what they are watching, thus they tend to eat more.

1. Smoking 2. Bad Eating Habits 3. Excessive alcohol intake 4. Excessive sleeping 5. Procrastinating

Examples of bad stress coping mechanisms (5)

Stress

If not properly dealt with, it can lead to many health concerns—difficulties in sleeping, poor immunity, hypertension, and even heart disease.

Internet Addiction

Many people would spend a lot of their time browsing social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube.

Emotional Eating

The practice of consuming large amounts of food in response to emotions instead of hunger. Food is seen as a source of comfort, stress reliever, or reward to make one feel better.

Eating Before Sleeping

This can cause discomfort preventing us from falling asleep easily.

Having an unhealthy lifestyle

This can lead to failure in performing daily tasks as these affect the physical and even emotional state of a person.

Social Eating

This is eating with peers just for the sake of being sociable.

Staying up all night

This is the most common bad sleeping habit of most people.

much; little

Too _____ or too _____ food consumed is unhealthy.

Procrastinating

Trying to hide and escape the problem using delaying tactics rather than facing the problem.

Eating

__________ is important but we must learn to manage it properly

Underweight people

are often found to suffer from malnutrition due to a lack of adequate nutrients in the body

Handling stress

be tough to do but we need to learn how to cope with stress the right way.

6 to 8

how many hours of sleep is recommended?

Overeating

is also found to be one of the leading causes of overweight and obesity

Anorexia nervosa

is an eating disorder wherein a person is abnormally underweight, has an intense fear of gaining, and an abnormal understanding of body weight, often due to coping with emotional problems stemming from self-worth.

Sleep

is essential to everyone's health.

Peer pressure

is the main reason why one feels compelled to consume more calories than what is planned

restricting food intake, exercising excessively, or misusing diet aids, diuretics, and laxatives

the extreme efforts to prevent weight gain of anorexia people