Title: Explore factors that influence wellness and lifestyle practices across the lifespan.
Course: Nutrition and Wellness (19253-36) > Section: Understanding Nutrition and Wellness

Exploration should include

- defining lifestyle
- explaining factors that influence wellness and lifestyle, such as
  - intellectual
  - psychological
  - emotional
  - cultural (e.g., ethnicity, family traditions/values)
  - social (e.g., peer pressure)
  - spiritual
  - behavioral
  - financial
- explaining the relationship between financial health and physical and mental wellness (i.e., the effects of economic resources on one’s quality of nutrition, health care, sleep, stress level, and chronic disease prevention).

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- Why should one’s lifestyle choices be of concern?
- What factors may influence one’s lifestyle choices?

Communication

- What communication skills are needed to explore factors that contribute to wellness?

Leadership

- What areas of wellness are most important to your idea of personal success?

Management

- What is your current level of exercise?
- What happens to your body when no exercise is involved?

Teacher Resources:

- Social Determinants of Health, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Operation Supplement Safety, Uniformed Services University, Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP)
- Health Education, Student Health Services, George Mason University
- Student Health and Wellness, University of Virginia
- Hokie Wellness, Virginia Tech