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  is achieving an improved quality of
Personal wellness life,
ensuring personal growth, and
maximizing one’s potentials.
Apart from physical health, the other dimensions include:
• Social health the ability to interact well with other people;
• Mental health
 the ability to learn,think, and grow intellectual
• Emotional health the ability to appropriately express and
control emotions; and
• Spiritual health
 the ability to put into action one’s faith,belief
and values.
Health-related fitness is narrowed down as follows:
1.Cardiovascular Fitness
This is the ability of the body to
continuously provide enough energy
to sustain high levels of exercise or
physical exertion.
Good cardiovascular fitness helps with:
• Improved delivery of oxygen throughout the body
• Fat metabolism
• Faster removal of waste products
• Decreased levels
 This refers to the ability of a muscle or group
2.Muscular Strengthmuscles to exert force to overcome a resistan

Muscular strength also helps you:

• avoid injuries
• maintain good posture
• Perform heavy tasks
 3.Muscular Endurance
This refers from muscular strength
in that it refers to the ability of a
muscles to make repeated
contractions or continue working
over an extended period of time.
4.Flexibility This refers to the range of movements
That the different joints in the body are able
to do.
It also helps:
• prevent injuries
• maintain good posture
• prevent back pains
• maintain healthy joints
• promote balance
5.Body Composition
This refers to the percentage amount of body fat
Compared to lean body mass like muscles , bones,
and cartilage.
It is important to pay attention to and maintain
good body composition because it helps:

• reduce health problems like heart and disease

and diabetes
• prevent injuries
HEALTH
 Puberty and You
There are several factors that affect the onset of puberty in each
individual. These include:

1.Body fat and body composition

2.Genetics
3.Physical activity and exercise
 CHANGES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
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Testosteroneis the male sex hormone that causes most of the body
changes that occur in boys.
Here are some of them:
• change of voice
• hair growth in the armpits and legs
• growth of pubic hair or hair around the genital area
• sudden increase in height also known as growth spurt
• enlargement of the genitals
• increase in shoulder size
 Semen  A white sticky fluid containing sperm, usually during
your sleep.
In girls, estrogen and progesterone are the hormones that cause
many of the changes in the body. These changes include:
• breast enlargement
• hair growth in the armpit and legs
• growth of pubic hair around the genital area
• clear or whitish vaginal secretions
• increase in height and hip size
Menstruation  is the monthly discharge of blood from the
uterus
Menarche  Isthrough the vagina.
the term that refers to the first flow of
menstruation.