How Healthy Am I?
My Physical Health:
Physical health is an essential part of overall health. Physical health makes an individual mechanically fit to carry out his/her daily activities without problem. It is when you have good metabolism, healthy organs and free from illness, injury or pain.
This is an important area of health because regular physical activity keeps your body functioning properly. If you perform sufficient physical activity, you can manage your body weight better, reduce your risk of heart attacks, diabetes, some cancers, high blood pressure, have stronger bones, joint and muscles while feeling energetic, happy, relaxed and sleep better.
The positive aspects of my physical health are a healthy immune system, sufficient physical exercise, healthy diet and performing forms of relaxation and stress relief every day. I have a healthy diet thanks to my pedantic mother. I am very hygienic; this protects me against illnesses and unwanted infections.
The negative aspect of my physical health is my sleeping patterns. 8 hours of sleep for me is not consistent, especially when I have many school assessments and tutoring lessons outside of school. Managing school assessments, piano tutorials and theory, sport, tutoring and outside of school activities can be quite stressful.
Ways I can improve my Physical health: The only reason I sleep late is because of my homework and tutoring lessons. I have some solutions I’ve applied during this year. I have stopped activities such as art class, talked to my tutoring and piano teachers about my school work, don’t procrastinate, give myself hope and informing my parents about my busy schedule.
My Social Health:
Social Health is your interactions with other people, how other people ...
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...fe and help us live with positive and ethical thoughts.
The positive aspects of my Spiritual health are looking forward to what life offers now and in the future and believing that everyone has something to offer in life. I believe that because I think everyone is important and has their rights.
The negative aspects of my Spiritual health are believing my life is worthwhile and feeling that I have my place in the world is because sometimes we feel depressed after difficult things occur. Sometimes people are annoying or don’t treat you properly and I feel that not all people and living things have an important place on this earth.
Ways I can improve my Spiritual health are thinking positive thoughts, smiling more often, look forward to the light at t he end of the tunnel, recalling happy memories, treating everyone fairly and trying my best to be a positive person.
However, not everyone gets the 7-9 hours of sleep they need on a regular basis. In a study done by the National Institute of Health, one-third of Americans get less than 7 hours of sleep and more than 70% of high school students are not getting enough sleep on a school night (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 2012). Sleep deprivation is slowly becoming a global issue that the general population, especially students, are not very concerned about. This lack of concern is worrisome because sleep deprivation can have negative effects on a person’s lifestyle, especially on their physical health and their performance in
The base of my health triangle is my social health because I don’t find any issues in this area of my life. The reason why I think my social health is the strongest health factor for me is because I don’t find it difficult to make new friends and I enjoy being around people a lot. For example, I am currently in Phi Theta Kappa, Student Council, Math Team, Key Club, HOSA and I’m looking forward to joining more clubs in our school. This means that I meet a lot of new people that I need to interact with. Even though there are people who are negative, I can adjust my attitude towards them so I can get to know them and possibly become their friend. I believe that anyone can be positive if they tried to. I work well with others and strive
Physically I take care of body. I like to work out about 3-4 times a week to keep myself occupied throughout the day. Working out for me is one of my stress relievers. I also try to balance my nutrition by eating the right amount of foods and how much sugar and salt I intake. It can
For some high school students, sleep is not considered a necessity – but rather, a luxury. Sports, extra-curricular activities, and Fine Arts programs play an important role in students’ lives and require a significant amount of commitment and dedication. Social life aside, some students have taken the additional endeavors of acquiring jobs, participating in volunteer activities, and taking extra Advanced Placement classes. With too many tasks to fulfill in a twenty-four hour day, high school students are forced to substitute for the most essential condition of all: sleep.
Health is described as “the general condition of the body or mind, especially in terms of the presence or absence of illness or impairments.” Health can also be defined as “the overall condition of something in terms of soundness, vitality and proper functioning” (Oxford, 263). From the definitions of health given, one can either be in good health or in unhealthy.
3). The seven dimensions are: Physical, Social, Intellectual, Occupational, Emotional, Environmental and Spiritual. Physical health is the literal physical aspects of a person. For example, characteristics physically such as body size and body functioning. The ability to perform activities in people’s daily lives, such as getting out of bed and bending to the shoes are also examples of physical health (Donatelle & Kolen-Thompson, 2013, p. 3). To up keep physical health people must keep track of dietary intake, sleep, alcohol, tobacco intake and keep physically active (Donatelle & Kolen-Thompson, 2013, p. 3). For social health, it is the capacity for satisfying interpersonal relationships, interacting with other, and other social situations (Donatelle & Kolen-Thompson, 2013, p. 4). This dimension of health is based on the day to day socialism each person has towards other people, or the environment. To keep healthy in this dimension one must be both a better listener and communicator and speaker. Following the saying, “Think before you speak” will help with social
Were you aware that teens tend to have irregular sleeping patterns that can harm their body and the way it functions? When it comes to sleep, teens are inclined to stay up very late during the week and wake up very early in the morning. On the weekends, they seem to gravitate more towards waking up very late to catch up on the sleep that they missed earlier in the week. Now that you know what the causes of having irregular sleeping patterns can do to a teenager’s body, you will be able to see the positive and negative effects of what not having enough sleep can do to one’s self. These facts will be explored through the articles “Should Schools Start Later” by Justin O’Neill and “Why Schools Should Start Later in the Morning” by Emily Richmond.
In conclusion, my health is neither bad or good. It often takes evaluating your own health to notice that there are always things you can do to improve your health. With my newly set goals for diet, exercise, and controlling my alcohol use, I should reach the main goal, being healthy. Because as I stated before, without good health we have not much else.
While I was in middle school, sixth grade to be exact, I stayed up countless nights overstressing and over complicating work that was visibly easy. This on top of cheer, and cross country, and theater, I was flushed. These over stressed nights led me to become depressed, which led me to lose an enormous amount of weight. Due to sleep deprivation, many teens like myself, have had or currently have mental disorders or struggle with everyday activities; the lack of sleep in a teen causes mental illnesses like depression or anxiety. These illnesses then lead to dropping grades and uncontrollable weight gain or loss. In the long run, sleep deprivation has many negative
The first of the six dimensions is physical wellness, which is your body’s overall wellness. This includes the absence of illness and disease and your body’s fitness level. You have to make good, healthy choices to be physically well. Eating healthy, exercising, and seeing a doctor on a regular basis for check-ups are all conducive to physical wellness. Some good examples of people who have achieved physical wellness are; Lance Armstrong and the Venus and Serena Williams.
Health is described as physical and mental well-being and freedom from disease, pain or defect. However, such descriptions only superficially define the actual meaning of health. There may be many occasions when individuals are not necessarily ill or in pain but may be overweight, stressed or emotionally unstable. Health is a quality of life involving dynamic interaction and interdependence among the individual’s physical state, their mental and emotional reactions, and the social context in which the individual exists. There are many factors that influence your health, but three major components contribute to general well-being: Self-awareness, a balanced diet and, regular physical activity.
Health involves the physical, mental and spiritual levels of the individual. A physically healthy person is one who can carry out normal daily physical activities and respond to emergencies with out undo fatigue or pain. The health part of health, nutrition and fitness is achieved through a balanced program of good nutrition, healthy physical activity, continuous education and mental activities, and social and spiritual activities. Your choices of the food you eat and your physical activities affect both your short term and long term health (how you feel now and in the future). You may be getting plenty to
Many studies have come to the conclusion that individuals who participate in health and wellness routines as well as a regular exercise program have a relatively increased degree of energy, lower healthcare bills, much better quality of life along with less stress, as well as improved health. Staying in good physical shape and healthy calls for everyone, to be conscious of their health, to be aware of the key fitness and health components and to follow them.
Physical fitness have numerous benefits including muscle strength, muscular endurance, brain activity, preventing obesity and lowering risk or major body problems. Reduces gaining weight, improves losing weight and less likely to have accidents later in life. Also improves ones lifespan, living a healthier life and improves sleeping. Physical activity helps reduce ones stress, anxiety, and depression also improves over all life. A half hour or so of physical activity daily can yield benefits. Also can improve ones flexibility (Brezina), which can effe...
Exercising helps in many different ways such as gaining muscular strength and ability. A person's desire is to lose weight and have a perfect toned figure, but it also helps ease a lot of other conditions as well. Exercising is considered to be a mood booster. It helps improve self esteem and will lower depression. It will make a person a lot happier, and will help bring a positive reaction in the body. Physical activity is very important for obesity. It is really important for obese children or adults to get some form of exercise in their lives. It can be very beneficial for them and can help prevent long term illnesses. People that exercise on a daily basis do it because it helps them feel more positive about themselves and they will be more energized, motivated and focused for the day. It gives people an excessive amount of happiness.