Choosing A Healthy Life

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Substance Abuse & Disease Prevention (5)

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5TH GRADE VIRTUAL HEALTH

L1: How Medicines Help the Body| L2: Medicine Use, Misuse & Abuse | L3: Tobacco Affects Body Systems | L4: Alcohol Affects Body Systems | L5: Refusing Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drugs | L6: The Causes of Disease| L7: Pathogens & Infectious Diseases | L8: Disease and the Immune System | L9: When Someone Gets Ill | L10: Noninfectious Disease | EXTRA: Choosing a Healthy Life

Substance Abuse & Disease Prevention

Choosing a Healthy Life

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Standard(s), Essential Question(s), Big Idea(s)


LEARNING TARGET / SUCCESS CRITERIA

I will know and be able to discuss the roles of diet, exercise, and managing stress in determining a person's overall health.

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PRE-INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY

Vocabulary

healthful - beneficial to health of body or mind (synonym: healthy)

healthy - beneficial to one's physical, mental, or emotional state: conducive to or associated with good health or reduced risk of disease (synonym: healthful)

lifestyle - the typical way of life of an individual, group, or culture


OPENING (Engage)

Main Idea

Healthful lifestyle choices can lower your chances of getting both infectious and noninfectious diseases.

Why Learn This?

You can use what you learn to make more healthful lifestyle choices.


WORK PERIOD (Explore/Explain/Extend/Elaborate)

READ: Choosing a Healthy Life


Choosing a Healthy Life


You may not have much, if any, control over your heredity or over the things in your environment that can make you ill. But you can control your own lifestyle. Three of the most important lifestyle choices you can make for good health are eating right, exercising regularly, and abstaining from, or not using, tobacco.


How are diet and exercise important to health?


People who eat diets high in fat are more likely to develop atherosclerosis and other kinds of heart disease than people with low-fat diets.


You don't have to cut fats completely out of your diet, but you should eat them only in small amounts. High-fat foods include ice cream, doughnuts, potato chips, and french fries. These and other high-fat foods are high in fat.


Regular aerobic exercise can also help reduce your risk of heart disease. Aerobic exercise is any activity that gets your heart pumping fast and makes you breathe hard. Aerobic exercise gives your heart muscle a workout and makes it stronger. Aerobic exercise can also lower high blood pressure. In addition, it can change the type of fat in your blood and 

are call diso lower high blood pressure. In addition, it can change the type of fat in your blood and help prevent atherosclerosis. Regular aerobic exercise may even lower your chances of developing one type of diabetes.


Aerobic exercise is also a good way to manage stress. Stress has been known to cause ulcers and heart attacks. Stress decreases the body's natural resistance, increasing a person's chances of getting colds and flu. Managing stress lowers your blood pressure and decreases your chances of getting heart disease. It also improves your natural resistance to infectious disease.


To include regular aerobic exercise in your life, try to find an aerobic activity that you enjoy. Then do the activity at least three or more days a week for a total of twenty to thirty minutes a day. Swimming, biking, and fast walking are good aerobic exercises that can both increase your natural resistance to infectious disease and help prevent heart disease.


How does tobacco use affect health?


Diseases that result from tobacco use are among the leading causes of death in the United States. People who smoke a pack or more of cigarettes each day are twice as likely to die before the age of sixty-five as people who don't smoke. People who use smokeless tobacco are also likely to die younger than people who don't use tobacco. Why do so many people who use tobacco die early? Cancer is one of the main reasons. Someone who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day is 14 times more likely to die from lung, throat, or mouth cancer than a nonsmoker. People who use smokeless tobacco are also more likely to die from cancer, especially cancer of the mouth, tongue, or lip.


Heart disease is another reason tobacco users, especially smokers, die younger than people who don't use tobacco. Smoking cigarettes greatly increases a person's chances of developing heart disease. Someone who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day is twice as likely to die from a heart attack as a nonsmoker.


Using tobacco has other drawbacks as well. Smoking can lead to lung infections and emphysema, a chronic respiratory disease. Using tobacco causes the skin to become tough and wrinkled. It also causes bad breath and stains the teeth. Even people who don't smoke can develop health problems from breathing tobacco smoke in the air around them.


Despite all the dangers and drawbacks of tobacco use, thousands of young people start using tobacco each year. Why do they start? Some start in order to look more mature. Others do it just because their friends do, and they want to fit in. Most young people who start using tobacco continue to use it as adults.


But there is good news. According to a July 5, 2017 article by Helen Browning in CaliforniaHealthline.


"When researchers first started consistently tracking teen cigarette use in 1999, 29 percent of high schoolers reported smoking a cigarette in the past 30 days. That’s compared with 8 percent in 2016, according to data released this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

"Reported use of e-cigarettes, known as vaping, also fell for the first time since e-cigarette tracking began in 2011, dropping from 16 percent in 2015 to about 11 percent in 2016."

Fortunately, using tobacco is one cause of death that can be prevented. The best way to avoid all the health problems that tobacco causes is to stay away from tobacco and tobacco smoke. Avoid places such as smoking sections of restaurants where tobacco smoke is in the air. Most important, don't start using tobacco yourself. This can be hard to do because tobacco advertising is all around.



REMEMBER...Healthful lifestyle choices can lower your chances of getting both infectious and noninfectious diseases. You can use what you learn to make more healthful lifestyle choices.


CLOSING (Evaluate)


Standard(s)

HE5.1a - recognize the relationship between healthy behaviors and disease prevention

HE5.1b - describe and apply the basic personal health concepts of healthy eating and physical activity

HE5.1c - describe and apply the basic health concept of mental and emotional well-being

HE5.1d - describe and apply the basic health concept of personal hygiene and safety

HE5.1e - distinguish the short and long-term physical effects of use and/or misuse of substances

HE5.1f - identify trusted adults and when it might be important to seek health care or emergency help for themselves or others

HE5.1g - identify the changes that occur during puberty

HE5.1h - distinguish between tattling, reporting aggression, bullying, cyberbullying, and violence (physical and/or sexual) and how to report these instances

HE5.1i - identify strategies to avoid physical fighting and violence

HE5.2a - evaluate the influence of family and peers on personal health behaviors and decisions

HE5.2b - describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors

HE5.2c - explain how media/technology influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors

HE5.3a - identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services

HE5.3b - access resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information

HE5.3c - assess the characteristics of valid health information, products, and services

HE5.4a - apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health

HE5.4b - model effective nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflicts

HE5.4c - demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health and the health of others

HE5.5a - identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision

HE5.5b - list healthy options and possible consequences to a health-related issue or problem

HE5.5c - predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision

HE5.5d - analyze when assistance is needed in making a health-related decision

HE5.5e - choose a healthy option when making a decision

HE5.5f - describe the outcomes of a health-related decision

HE5.6a - set a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement

HE5.6b - identify and utilize resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal

HE5.7a - practice responsible personal health choices

HE5.7b - demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to preserve or enhance personal health

HE5.7c - model a variety of behaviors that prevent or decrease health risks to self and/or others

HE5.8a - review accurate information and develop an opinion about a health issue

HE5.8b - advocate for positive health choices


Essential Question(s)


Big Idea(s)


RESOURCES / INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS


DCSD Board-Approved Instruction Materials


Technology