Health Unit By: Daenella

Person Safety

be alert and aware of surroundings: while you are walking keep your mind on what is going around you.

ask for help: if you feel vulnerable, ask the police or security to escort you to your car.

keep hands free: caryying items makes you feel more vulnerable target for ciminals.

Trust your instincts: if you have an intuitive feeling something is wrong, trust your instincts. React immediately and take action to reduce your risk.

Human Development & Sexuality

What is sexuality:
sexuality is the only part of who we are as sexual.

Body Parts:
Male and female hormones and sex organs.

Gender Identity:
How we see ourselves; the core sense that we are male or female, both, neither, or somewhere along the gender spectrum.

Sexual Orientation:
Emotional, romantic, and sexual attraction that a person feels towards another person.

Gender Expression:
how we act, dress, and Who we talk with show others who we are.

Sexual Health:
Our state of physical, mental, and social well being in relation to sexuality body image how we feel about our body relationships and closeness how we experience intimacy, touch, love, compassion, joy, and sorrow.
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Fit Theory

Muscular Strength:
- the ability to exert
force or lift a heavy
weight. We use this
everyday when
opening heavy doors
etc.

Flexibility:
- the ability of muscles to stretch and the joints to move through their full range of motion.
Maintaining/increasing
your flexibility will help
prevent injuries.
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The Endomorph
- High percentage of body fat
- Short neck
- Large abdomen
- Wide hips
- Round, full buttocks
- Short, heavy legs

The Ectomorph
- Small bones
- Thin muscles
- Slender arms and legs
- Narrow chest
- Round shoulder
- Flat abdomen
- Small buttocks

The Mesomorph
- Firm well developed muscles
- Large bones
- Broad shoulders
- Muscular arms
- Trim waist
- Muscular buttocks
- Powerful legs

Sports

Net ball:
Activities which involve sending an object over a net or towards a wall in a way that makes it difficult for the opponent to return the object.
- Volleyball
- badminton
- table Tennis
- tennis

Target:
- Ladder Ball
- Cornhole
- Washer Toss
- Flimsy
- Bowling
- Mini golf

Striking: To Hit forcibly and deliberately with one's hand or an implement.
Fielding: Sending out a team or individual to play a game; this involves catching or picking up a ball after it has been hit and to trying to prevent the other team from scoring.
-Baseball
- Cricket
- Softball


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Substance Uses & Abuse

STAGE 4
• CAN NO LONGER GET HIGH
• USER USES THE DRUG TO AVOID BEING
SICK
• DRUGS BECOME THE CENTER OF THEIR
LIFE

STAGE 3
• SEEKS OUT THE “HIGH”
• HAS CONFIDENCE IN USING THE DRUG
• USER THINK THE DRUG WON’T HURT THEM
• PEER GROUP USES

STAGE 2
• USER IS THINKING MORE ABOUT DRUGS
• PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIP BECOMES DIFFICULT
• USER USES WHEN ALONE
• USER STILL THINKS THEY HAVE CONTROL

STAGE 1
• CURIOSITY IS THE MOTIVATOR
• LEARNING TO TRUST/MISTRUST THE DRUG USED
• “HIGH” IS STILL A NEW FEELING

Nutrition

Vitamins and Minerals: essential nutrients in food to help the proper functioning of body processes (e.g. Vitamin C helps to fight off infections, calcium helps to keep bones strong, etc.)

Diet: controlled eating habits to attain a specific health goal (e.g. lose weight, gain lean muscle, control salt intake, etc).

Protein: complex molecules made from small chains of smaller molecules called
amino acids; protein helps to grow, maintain, and repair body tissue.

Macronutrient: the nutrients we are required to consume relatively large amounts of: water carbohydrates, protein, and fats.