1.2: Health and Wellness Spectrum Animation Video
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Health and Wellness Spectrum
Your level of health and wellness can be plotted on a spectrum. If you have the best health possible, you have optimal health and wellness. The opposite end of this spectrum is premature death. This occurs when a person has extremely low health and wellness.
The better your health and wellness, the closer to the top of the spectrum you fall. If you have poor health and wellness, you will fall closer to the bottom of the spectrum.
A person’s health status normally lies somewhere between the extremes of poor and excellent. This is because most people experience one or more problems that reduce their health and wellness, but they also experience one or more factors that increase their health and wellness.
Some factors that can reduce health and wellness include having an illness or injury, getting inadequate sleep, texting while driving, a lack of healthy relationships, and the inability to manage stress.
Some factors that can increase health and wellness include quitting smoking, drinking, or abusing drugs, eating more fruits and vegetables, starting an exercise program, getting regular physical examinations, and getting a flu shot each year.
Some of these factors, such as genetic diseases, are not within your control.
Many of the factors, however, are within your control. Choosing to quit smoking, for example, can greatly increase a person’s level of health and wellness. The choices you make today largely determine where you currently are on the health and wellness spectrum. These choices can also impact your future health and wellness.