Your Health Objectives

411 – Your Health

• Demonstrate an understanding of energy balance and its importance in maintaining a healthy body weight. (questions in PA and nutrition sections)
• Identify puberty (phase of growth and development), body type, and inherited traits as influences on body weight.
• Identify body mass index (BMI) and how it relates to a healthy body weight.
• Recall that diabetes is a chronic disease that prevents the body from making or properly using insulin.
• Recognize that Type II diabetes can be caused by being overweight.
• Recognize that teens can be diagnosed with either Type I or Type II diabetes.
• Identify risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
• Identify symptoms of a heart attack and immediate action steps.
• Recognize that lifestyle choices affect risks for chronic diseases.
• Recognize the importance of a family health history.
• Recognize environmental influences that affect one’s health status.