Healthy and unhealthy habits

1. HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
HABITS
Natural Science
6th of Primary

2. What is health?
 Healthy is a state of complet mental, physical and social wellness
 Health depends on some factors:
 Personal characteristics (if my mother uses glasses, maybe I will use)
 The environment or place where we live (culture, poorness)
 The lifestyle
 Health care

3. What is illness?
 Illness is the ausence of health.
 You can have signs and symptoms
Example:
- Sign: you have fever because your temperature is 38 degrees
- Symptom: you feel cold.

4. HEALTHY HABITS
 Sleep between 8-10 hours a day
 Eat five times, taking importance of the breakfast
 Protect your sking from the sun with solar cremes
 Listen to music with an adequate volumen
 Breath fresh air
 Sit down correctly
 Eat healthy: vegetables, fruits, proteins
 Vacines
 Prevent accidents (use helmet with the bike, seatbelt in the car, warm up your muscles
before doing sport)
 Try to avoid alcohol, tobacco and drugs

5. UNHEALTHY HABITS
 Mainly, there are 3 unhealthy habits:
 DRUGS
ALCOHOL
TOBACCO
 NEW TECHNOLOGIES

6. DRUGS
 Some drugs are really bad for the body and they can make a person dependent of
them
 Alcohol: is the most common drug. A lot of people get drunk and provoke car
accidents. Their effects are very bad for the body and the brain.
 Tobacco: it is another common drug. It can cause lung cancer and apart from that
it damages to people that don’t smoke.

7. NEW TECHNOLOGIES
 Nowadays we are living in a technological world.
 In all the houses, the children have contact with:
 MOBILE PHONES
 INTERNET CONEXIÓN
 TABLETS
 CONSOLES, PSP
 SOCIAL NETWORKS
They can isolate a person from his family, his Friends
It is very dangerous to use them. Sometimes, there are problems on the internet with your
privacy and in other cause it can cause addiction.

8. QUESTIONS
 If a person is very sad because he/she doesn’t have any friend, is this person ill?
 What common illnesses do you know?
 What common illnesses have you had?
 How much do you use new technologies?
 What do you think about the people that smoke?
 Do you think alcohol is necessary to be happier in a party?

9. ACTIVITIES
 Write three illnesses that you have had in your life. Write the sign and the sympton
of each
 Write 5 healthy habits and 5 unhealthy habits
 What are the good things and the bad things of NEW TECHNOLOGIES?

10. JOURNAL
 How do you feel today?
 Are you sick or healthy?