Year 11 - Physical education
Lifestyle choices and diseases
Health and well-being: reasons for participation
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Unit Summary
This unit will examine the benefits of participating in physical activity and sport on health, fitness and well-being to include physical, emotional/ mental and social factors. It will also explore the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle and implications of ill health.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to discuss the positive and negative impact of lifestyle choices on health, fitness and wellbeing.
Key Notes
- Lifestyle choices can include diet, exercise, sleep.
- Types of lifestyle choices include using recreational drugs.
- Lifestyle choices can have positive impacts like feeling energised.
- Some choices have negative impacts such as they increase the risk of disease.
Vocabulary To Learn
- lifestyle choices: the choices we make about how we live and behave that impact on our health
- balanced diet: eating the right amount (of calories) for energy expended; according to how much you exercise; different food types to provide suitable nutrients, vitamins and minerals
- addictive: the ability to meet the demands of the environment
- recreational drugs: drugs taken for enjoyment (not for medical purposes) such as alcohol or nicotine
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Students may view lifestyle choices as something that can only be negative (e.g. fatty food, sedentary lifestyle or drugs).
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Lifestyle choices can include diet, exercise, sleep. Types of lifestyle choices include using recreational drugs.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'lifestyle choices'
the choices we make about how we live and behave that impact on our health.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Students may view lifestyle choices as something that can only be negative (e.g. fatty food, sedentary lifestyle or drugs). Correction: Reframe thinking using positive examples of each factor.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Consequences of a sedentary lifestyle Study Guide
- Physical, emotional and social aspects of health Study Guide
- Physical, emotional and social health, fitness and wellbeing Study Guide
- Physical, mental and social health, fitness and wellbeing Study Guide
- Promotion of personal health Study Guide
- Somatotypes Study Guide
- The consequences of a sedentary lifestyle Study Guide
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