Question

I will give brainaly! INFLUENCES ON YOUR HEALTH 1. List the categories of influences on your health. ____________________ ______________________ _______________________ ____________________ ______________________ _______________________ 2. Which influence is beyond your control? _____________________________ 3. Give an example of how you can reduce your risk for certain diseases even if you are hereditarily predisposed to that particular disease? ___________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Define the term ENVIRONMENT. _______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 5. Explain how physical environment might affect a person’s health? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What type of environment do family and peers fall under? ___________________________ 7. How can your peers affect your environment? ____________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 8. Why is it important to be aware of your overall attitude about life? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. What is the one influence of health that you 100% control? __________________________ 10. What must you do in evaluating media sources of health information? ____________________________________________________________________________ 11. Explain one positive and one negative effect of technology. Positive______________________________________________________________________Negative_____________________________________________________________________

Answer 1

1.Ans:- The following factors influence how you live and the health decisions you make:

Heredity.

Environment.

Attitude.

Behavior.

Media/Technology.

2.ans:- Behavior is beyond my control.

3.ans:- A genetic predisposition (sometimes also called genetic susceptibility) is an increased likelihood of developing a particular disease based on a person's genetic makeup. A genetic predisposition results from specific genetic variations that are often inherited from a parent.

4.ans:- The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates is called environment.

5.ans:-Your environment also includes the people in your life as well as your culture. Your physical environment can affect all areas of your health. ... Negative environmental influences include: pollutants such as smog and smoke, high crime, poor access to medical care, exposure to diseases.

6.ans:-There are strong reasons to think that families, and their economic circumstances in particular, influence both parents’ and children’s emotions and behaviors, Rand D. Conger explained. He described some of the evidence for these effects, the specific processes involved, and some of the implications for intervention. Nancy A. Gonzales described the relationship between family influences and particular risk behaviors, as well as interventions that have been developed to alter these influences.

7.ans:- The environment can facilitate or discourage interactions among people (and the subsequent benefits of social support). For example, an inviting space with comfortable chairs and privacy can encourage a family to stay and visit with a patient. The environment can influence peoples' behavior and motivation to act.

8.ans:- Negative attitudes and feelings of helplessness and hopelessness can create chronic stress, which upsets the body's hormone balance, depletes the brain chemicals required for happiness, and damages the immune system. Chronic stress can actually decrease our lifespan.

10.ans:-Carefully evaluate any email messages you receive that provide health-related information. Consider the message's origin and purpose. Some companies or organizations use email to advertise products or attract people to their websites.

Hope I helped.

Answer 2

Answer: 1- exercise, eating habits, ongoing heath conditions, medications

2-ongoing health conditions

3- heathy eating and vitamins

4- the surrounding of a specific place or people

5- if you spend more time outdoors your less likely to have depression

6- social

7-they can add to stress or help relive it

8- So you can focus on the future not the past

9- eating habits

10- check the accuracy and reliability of that source

11- easy access to important info, blue light messes with sleep