Promoting A Healthy LIfestyle

Decision that you make each day affect your health.   What you choose to wear, eat, and do can have personal health consequences.   Making responsible decisions shows that you know strategies for maintaining personal, family, and community health.

Your Health Triangle

Influences on Your Health

Herdity: all the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents.     Heredity influences your general level of health.   Specific genes may put you at risk for particular illnesses or help strengthen  your resistance to disease.