Chapter 1 Understand Health and Wellness Lesson 2 What Affects Your Health Notes

Physical-the physical places in which you live. Social-the people who make up your world. Culture-the culture you live in.

Describe each component of your environment and how each can affect your health.

For understanding all the environmental factors.

Explain how you can take control of your health.

Get ready for it before hand.

Identify one way that you can exercise control over heredity and the effects it has on your health.

Heredity, physical environment, social environment, culture, attitude, behavior, the media.

List the influences on your health.

Print media, newspapers, and magazines, radio, television, and the Internet.

Name some sources of media that can influence your health behaviors.

peers

Which term describes the people in your age group?

heredity

Which term means all the traits that were biologically passes on to you from your parents?

adequate

Which term means sufficient or satisfactory?

culture

Which term means the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group?

environment

Which term means the sum of your surroundings?

media

Which term refers to media-producing devices such as radio, television, and the Internet?