Path To Wellness
Path to Wellness Essay
How important is your body to you? Are you a more go with the flow type of person? Or do you truly care about how your body looks and feels? It is extremely important to take good care of your body to maintain good health, and to prevent any health issues and illnesses later on in your life. Physically, your body will be in good health when you continue to get regular physical activity and maintain a healthy weight. When you take good care of your body, you are taking good care of your health as well. You are then preventing certain diseases and even putting yourself at a lower risk of ever being diagnosed with cancers. Taking care of your body also leads to having healthy mental/emotional health by helping you …show more content…
This then helping all three components of your health triangle, your physical health, your mental/emotional health, and as well as your social health by giving you the confidence to go out and …show more content…
If you are a teenager or a young adult, you should be practicing abstinence, this means choosing to not take part in having any sexual intercourse or in any sexual behavior period. Involving yourself in sexual activity has many risk factors alone. The first risk to consider before you engage in sexual intercourse is pregnancy. Are you prepared to have a baby? Are you ready to take on the responsibility to have a child and become a parent? Is your partner ready to have a child? Say that you do end up becoming pregnant, if your partner is not ready for that type of commitment and responsibility, will you be able to handle a child all on your own? More than likely the answers to these questions are no, I am not ready. When you engage in this risky behavior and do end up pregnant, you will have no choice to mature and grow up faster than you expected that you would. Caring for a baby is not an easy task and will be difficult, especially at a young age. Not only is pregnancy a risk factor to consider, but the second risk is catching an STD or Sexually Transmitted Disease. STD’s are a common risk of being sexually active because some of these diseases have no symptoms or signs, and others have no cure. To prevent against these risks, use protection when engaging in sexual activity. Although, even when protection is being used, it is not 100%
How important is your body to you? Are you a more go with the flow type of person? Or do you truly care about how your body looks and feels? It is extremely important to take good care of your body to maintain good health, and to prevent any health issues and illnesses later on in your life. Physically, your body will be in good health when you continue to get regular physical activity and maintain a healthy weight. When you take good care of your body, you are taking good care of your health as well. You are then preventing certain diseases and even putting yourself at a lower risk of ever being diagnosed with cancers. Taking care of your body also leads to having healthy mental/emotional health by helping you …show more content…
This then helping all three components of your health triangle, your physical health, your mental/emotional health, and as well as your social health by giving you the confidence to go out and …show more content…
If you are a teenager or a young adult, you should be practicing abstinence, this means choosing to not take part in having any sexual intercourse or in any sexual behavior period. Involving yourself in sexual activity has many risk factors alone. The first risk to consider before you engage in sexual intercourse is pregnancy. Are you prepared to have a baby? Are you ready to take on the responsibility to have a child and become a parent? Is your partner ready to have a child? Say that you do end up becoming pregnant, if your partner is not ready for that type of commitment and responsibility, will you be able to handle a child all on your own? More than likely the answers to these questions are no, I am not ready. When you engage in this risky behavior and do end up pregnant, you will have no choice to mature and grow up faster than you expected that you would. Caring for a baby is not an easy task and will be difficult, especially at a young age. Not only is pregnancy a risk factor to consider, but the second risk is catching an STD or Sexually Transmitted Disease. STD’s are a common risk of being sexually active because some of these diseases have no symptoms or signs, and others have no cure. To prevent against these risks, use protection when engaging in sexual activity. Although, even when protection is being used, it is not 100%