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Making Healthy Choices
7th Grade Choices
• Making healthy choices can improve
your level of wellness and increase your
chance of living a long, healthy life.
• Think about your oldest living relative. How
old is he/she? What choices have they made
that may have helped them reach this age?
Recent discoveries in science and
medicine, new drug treatments and
advances in technology have helped
reduce and in some cases eliminate
many of the diseases that killed
people hundreds of years ago.
However…
In our society today, the way some
people live their lives pose new dangers
to their health.
Many people develop illnesses, are
involved in accidents, and die each year
because of the decisions they make
related to their health and safety.
Lifestyle Factors
• Experts have identified 7 habits (called lifestyle
factors) that can make a difference in the quality of
people’s lives and in their longevity (how long they
will live).
1. Not misusing or abusing drugs and alcohol/drugs
2. Getting regular exercise almost everyday for at least 30
minutes
3. Maintaining a healthy weight
4. Eating a variety of nutritious food from My Pyramid
5. Eating breakfast EVERYDAY!
6. Getting 7-8 hours of sleep per night
7. Not smoking or using other tobacco products
So What’s the Secret??
• The key to living a long, happy, and healthy life
is PREVENTION.
• The purpose of this class is to provide
students with some of the health information
they need to make positive health choices to
prevent unhealthy behaviors.
Leading Causes of Death in the U.S.
1900
2000
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• Pnuemonia and
Influenza
• Tuberculosis
• Inflammations of the
Digestive Tract
• Heart Disease
• Cancer
• Stroke
Diseases
• Pneumonia – Inflammation of the lungs
• Influenza – the “flu” an infectious
respiratory disease caused by a virus.
• Tuberculosis – an infectious bacterial
infection that affects the lungs.
• Inflammation of the Digestive Tract –
ulcers, appendicitis, hepatitis.
Diseases
• Heart Disease – the build up of arterial
plaque in the arteries around the heart.
• Cancer – a disease in which abnormal
cells grow in an uncontrolled manner.
• Stroke – an interruption of blood flow to
any part of the brain.
• The average life expectancy in 1900 was only
47 years of age.
• Since heart disease, cancer and stroke tend to
affect older people, many people in 1900 died
before these causes of death would have
started to impact them.
• Today the average life expectancy is 80 years.
“The Mysterious Murder
of Sal Monella”
The Ending!!
• When Carmela got the results, she smiled.
She thought to herself how glad Sal would
have been to know that he dies of NATURAL
CAUSES!!!
Questions…
• Who killed Sal Monella?
• How did his lifestyle contribute to his
premature death? List as many factors as you
can think of that may have contributed to his
death.
• Which lifestyle decisions did Sal have control
over?
In Conclusion…
• The decisions that you make and they habits
you form as children and adolescents can
carry over into adulthood and can affect the
quality and length of your life.
Making healthy decisions can
SAVE YOUR LIFE!