Art of Health Curriculum, Data, and Activity
The mission of the Art of Health curriculum is to provide education on the science behind self care and healthy habits.
What makes a healthy person?
Exploring the correlation of mental and physical health in teens, we start to understand how teenagers view and are affected by the world around them. The mental health of teens is decreasing by the minute due to an excess of life stressors; social media, school, social pressure, all of these factors working together to make the teenage experience a roller coaster ride to an uncertain end. Affecting physical health, teens are unknowingly setting themselves up for inevitable health issues by pulling that procrastination all-nighter or that midnight fast food stop.
The total health of a person is a culmination of physical and mental health - and the rapid changes teenagers are going through both internally and externally is a direct reflection of that. Physical health is unconditionally affected by the way one thinks; it affects self-image, care of one’s self, and alters the brain at a chemical level as well. How do we combat that? With techniques of positivity that offer tranquility and quiet confidence, and disregarding the people in the world who are trained to judge.
Share your unique perspective! Tell a story about your teenage experience, submit some art depicting the teenage perspective, or send some healthy family recipes that you would like to share with others.