Building healthy lifestyles

our choices today can affect your health tomorrow. This assignment will guide you to research, reflect, and plan healthy habits that reduce the risk of chronic disease later in life.

Step 1: Choose Your Focus Area

Pick one health topic to focus on:

Nutrition and eating habits

Physical activity and exercise

Sleep hygiene

Stress management

Screen time and sedentary behavior

Guiding Questions:

What are some poor habits in your life?

Why might these habits be harmful in the long term?

Step 2: Conduct Research

Use at least 3 credible sources such as CDC, WHO, or academic journals.

Tasks:

1. Identify poor health choices related to your topic.
2. Research how these choices increase the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, or hypertension.
3. Find strategies or interventions to create healthy habits early.

Guiding Questions:

What does the research say about the risks of poor health choices?

What is the pathophysiology of the disease?

What strategies are recommended for prevention?

Step 3: Analyze and Reflect

Think about yourself, your family, or your household.

Tasks:

Explain the consequences of poor health choices in your chosen topic.

Describe how making good choices in childhood can prevent chronic disease later in life.

Guiding Questions:

Which habits do you see in your household that could be improved?

How might small changes today affect your health in 10 – 20 years?

Step 4: Create a Healthy Habit Plan

Develop a plan to adopt one healthy habit over 2-4 weeks.

Tasks:

Set a clear, measurable goal.

Describe how you will track your progress.

Explain how this habit could improve long-term health.

Guiding Questions:

What habit is realistic to implement in your daily life?

How will you measure success?

What challenges might you face, and how will you overcome them?

Step 5: Prepare Your Written Report

Submit your work as a written report (5 pages).

Include:

Your research findings

Reflection on personal/family habits

Healthy habit plan

References in APA format

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