Health and Nutrition

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Feelings

• During the teenage years, your hormones change, resulting in changes in your emotions.
• You have the power to think about yourself positively and to make positive behavioral choices.

Lesson 2: Being a Smart Consumer

• Advertisers often make claims that are not entirely true about their products.
• A fad is something that has a lot of popularity for a short period of time.

Lesson 3: Healthy Body

• A communicable disease is an infectious disease; pathogens that cause the disease can be spread from one organism to another.
• A pathogen is a germ that causes disease.
• A chronic disease is a disease with a long-term duration and generally slow progression.

Lesson 4: Healthy Relationships

• Conflict can be approached with a "win-win" mentality, in which each party can have a satisfactory result.
• Teenagers need to be aware of the possible drawbacks to sexual encounters, such as pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
• Bullying is attacking, threatening, teasing, or purposefully excluding someone.

Lesson 5: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs

• A drug is a medicine or substance that affects the body when introduced into the body.
• All drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, work by speeding up or slowing down the body's functions.
• For teens there is no "safe" amount of or use of drugs and alcohol.

Lesson 6: Nutrition and Exercise

• An hour a day of exercise is a good goal for optimal health.
• Nutrition labels include important information about prepared foods, including the serving size, calories, nutrient value, and fats and sugars included in the food.
• Your BMI, or Body Mass Index, is a measure of the healthiness of your weight for your height.

Final Project: Personal Health Plan

• Accountability means asking someone else to hold you responsible to the changes you have planned.