Lifestyle Choices
4.3
4.3 - Lifestyle Choices
LO’S We are learning about:
Lifestyle Choices
Success criteria:
We are learning to: A-A*: Identify the all of the key areas of lifestyle choice and
suggest how they are effected positively and negatively
Identify: The 5 key areas related to lifestyle
Identify, define and explain the 5 areas of lifestyle choices
choices.
Apply you knowledge to exam questions and be able to
independently analysis data in relation to lifestyle choices
Explain: The positive and negative aspects of the 5
key areas C-B:
Identify 3 key areas of lifestyle choice and suggest how they are
Apply: Apply knowledge of lifestyle choices to a effected positively and negatively
range of tasks.
Identify, define and explain the 3 areas of lifestyle choices
Keywords: Apply you knowledge to exam questions and be able to analysis
data in relation to lifestyle choices
Sedentary lifestyle, Overweight, Overfat, Obese,
BMI, Lifestyle Choices C:
Identify a key area of lifestyle choice and suggest how they are
effected positively and negatively
Identify, define and explain the a ley area of lifestyle choices
Developing personal qualities Apply you knowledge to exam questions
and using social skills
Lifestyle choice
KEY TERM – LIFESTYLE CHOICES ARE THE CHOICES WE MAKE ABOUT HOW WE
LIVE AND BEHAVE THAT IMPACT ON OUR HEALTH.
We all make lifestyle choices every day of our lives.
What we eat (Diet)
How much we exercise (activity level)
How much we rest/sleep (work/rest/sleep)
Whether or not we smoke or drink (recreational drugs)
Positive and negative choices
Some of the choice we make will have a Some of the choice we make will have a
POSITIVE influence of our lives, for example: NEAGATIVE influence of our lives, for
example:
Having a balanced diet
Smoking
Exercising
Alcohol
Sleeping 8 hours
Drugs
Fast food (excessive amounts)
Diet – Eating a health diet:
Boost your energy levels, therefore better able to enjoy Can reduce stress levels and improve sleep patterns
life Will help you lose weight, if overweight, or maintain a
Will supply your body with essential nutrients it needs healthy weight.
for a healthy immune system, helping you fight off
illness
Reduces the risk of developing serious health
conditions, such as:
Heart disease
Type 2 diabetes
High blood pressure
High cholesterol
Strokes
Diet – Eating an unhealthy diet
Leads to deficiencies in essential nutrients and causes Can decrease concentration levels and make you feel
health conditions such as: lethargic, which makes it difficult to find the energy to
Osteoporosis (weak bones) exercise
Rickets Can affect the quality of sleep
Fatigue Can increase depression
Muscles weakness
Increase in weight and body fat, which can causes
health conditions such as:
Heart disease
Type 2 diabetes
High blood pressure
High cholesterol
Strokes
Activity levels
Living an active life: Living an inactive life:
• Lowers risk of disease • Increases your risk of disease.
• Lowers your risk of developing mental-health • Increases your risk of low self-esteem,
conditions, such as depression or dementia anxiety, and depression.
• Boosts your self-esteem, the quality of your • Decreases your muscle mass, overall
sleep, and your energy levels strength and energy levels, making task
• Reduces stress and anxiety such as carrying shopping bags more
• Improves your fitness levels difficult.
Life Balance – Work, Rest, Sleep
When your life is balanced you work hard but you also have enough time to rest and sleep.
Work includes :
Schoolwork
Employment
Sport and physical activity
Rest might include:
Chatting to friends
Listen to music
A good work life balance:
Improve the your heath:
Physical
Mental
Social
Reduces stress
Increase your productivity
Make better decisions
form stronger relationships
A poor work/rest/sleep balance:
Increase your risk of depression
Can increase the following:
Weight gain
High blood pressure
Chance of getting heart disease
Stress
Anxiety
Can increase the use of recreational drugs (alcohol, smoking)
Recreational Drugs
Key Term – Recreational drugs are drugs that are taken for pleasure
rather than for medical reasons.
Many recreational drugs are illegal, other such as alcohol and nicotine are legal.
However, just because they’re legal doesn't’t mean they are good for you.
alcohol nicotine heroin cocaine marijuana
Alcohol – effects on the body
• The liver focus on reducing the • It makes the kidneys
alcohol and can not produce produce more urine
glucose (which provides energy) and reduces the
amount of water in
your body
reduces
cardiovascular
Increase
fitness &
dehydration
muscular
endurance
Slows down the increase weight
nervous system gain
• This reduces coordination • Alcohol is high in
concentration and reaction time sugar and calories
Nicotine – effects on the body
Increases
fatigue Increase risk of Leads to Causes harm to
• Cardiovascular disease addiction others
and respiratory • Lung cancer, • Nicotine is highly
• Passive smoking
system are unable Bronchitis addictive
to work efficiently
Sedentary lifestyle – KEY TERMS
Sedentary lifestyle: A lifestyle where there is little, irregular or no physical activity
Overweight: Weight more than the ideal weight for your height
Overfat: Having more than the ideal amount of fat
Obese: Weight significantly more than the ideal weight for your height and having an excess amount of body
fat.
Sedentary lifestyle
There are serious consequences to leading a sedentary lifestyle as it increase your risk of long term health problems such
as:
Poor Posture Coronary heart disease
Walls of the arteries build up with fatty deposits,
this can lead to back and joint pain. narrowing the blood vessels that carry blood to the
heart.
high blood pressure type 2 diabetes
The body can not produce enough insulin to
this can lead to heart attacks & strokes.
function properly
depression loss of muscles tone
This can be life threating as it can lead to you will become weaker and it will become harder
suicidal thoughts. to complete daily tasks.
Impact on the components of fitness osteoporosis
caused bones to become weak and brittle, and more
It reduces all aspects of components of fitness likely to break.
Working out your BMI
Key Term – Body Mass Index (BMI) is a way of calculating whether or not you are an ideal weight.
The BMI chart can be used as a guide to
work out if an adult is overweight,
underweight, obese or very obese.
BMI Charts do not take into account how
much of your body is muscles
As a result elite performers tend not to use
BMI to calculate their optimum weight Click to enlarge
Use the chart to work
out your ideal weight.
How do you compare?
What factors effect this?
Task 1
Interpret the data: describe the trend for each year group between 1994 & 2013
Analysis the data: what does the trend suggest about how the lifestyles of 2-5 year olds
has changed between 2003-2013?
Analyses the data: predict the percentage of children who will be overweight, by age
group, in 2020
Task 2
Design an information booklet that shows the positive and negative effects of a persons lifestyle choices.
Must include :
Positives and Negative for each area (Diet, Drugs, Rest, Sedentary lifestyle)
Photos that illustrate your points
Websites for further information for the reader.
Homework
