The document discusses adopting a healthy lifestyle in response to having a family history of chronic diseases. It begins by noting the author's family history of diseases like diabetes and heart disease. They scored poorly in nutrition, physical activity, and self-care after a college health assessment. To improve their health, the author plans to focus on improving their nutrition by adopting a balanced diet and increasing physical activity through exercise. Regular health screenings are also described as important to monitor progress and detect diseases early through lifestyle changes and medical care.

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Chronic diseases are obtained from an individual’s way of
living. Individuals that have had a family history of these
diseases, however, have a significantly large chance of
obtaining them compared to others who do not have a family
history of the same. From my family’s health history, I have
learned that we have a history of diseases such as Diabetes,
heart disease, hypertension, asthma, cancer and obesity among
others. This brings out great possible concern for my future
health because it is clear that the possibility of getting these
diseases is very high because we share similar genes with my
family members. Many people usually share a family health
history of at least a single chronic disease. In my case, I have a
number of close family members who have chronic diseases,
which increase the risk of me developing the diseases because
more than one of my family members has the disease even at
their younger ages.
I learned that there is a need for improvement of my health
practices after completing the college health assessment. I
acquired this understanding because, among all the tests I took,
there was a significant need to improve on my way of living.
This depicts that I am putting in little efforts to ensure that I am
living a healthy life. From the scores, it is clear that I scored
poorly in the nutrition, spirituality and the values, physical
activity, self-care and intellectual wellness categories. This
implies that there is a great need to get involved in the activities
that will help in the improvement of these scores, especially in

2. the nutrition, which I scored the least. It is, therefore,
imperative to ensure the intake of a balanced diet to avoid doing
well in some areas and poorly in others. This aspect is likely to
cause deterioration of my overall health wellness.
The outcome of the college health assessment was similar to my
expectations because I only invest more in ensuring my safety
while I have been relaxing on the rest. I believe that there is a
need to ensure I make a positive investment in my overall health
wellness to ensure balanced results.
Having a family history of chronic diseases simply implies that
my genetic makeup makes me vulnerable of attaining these
diseases. Since I cannot change my genetic makeup to eliminate
this vulnerability, I should focus on the improvement of my
current and the future health by concentrating on changing my
nutrition. In this, I will focus on the elimination of the poor
eating habits by ensuring that I consume foods that contain a
balanced diet. The other area that I feel I should focus on to
improve my current and future health is ensuring that I engage
in physical activity. This can be achieved through engagement
in the games and supports, which will greatly aid in keeping my
body active.
Since I have a family with a health history of a number of
chronic diseases, one of the actions that I might take as a
response to this understanding is the adoption of a different
improved lifestyle and ensuring that I go for screening tests
regularly to determine my progress. Adoption of a healthy
lifestyle will greatly aid in reducing the risk of attaining these
diseases despite my family’s historical facts. On the other hand,
screening tests such as hypertension and the diabetes screening
will greatly aid in the detection of the early signs and the
symptoms of the disease. Identifying the existence of a disease
within an individual before he or she has been infected for a
long time makes it easy for the disease to be fought through

3. medical care and a changing of the way of life. Prevention of a
disease is also cheaper compared to the cost incurred during
treatments. Since taking regular tests helps an individual,
understand the conditions in his or her life that might lead to
attaining the diseases, the results of the tests help people
establish ways through which they remain healthy and free from
infection by those diseases. The prevention process costs much
less compared to the treatment process of the diseases.
Running head: [Shortened Title up to 50 Characters] 5
[Title Here, up to 12 Words, on One to Two Lines]
[Author Name(s), First M. Last, Omit Titles and Degrees]
University of ToledoHEAL 2500-001
Jeanna Tran
[Date Submitted]
Introduction
[First paragraph of the introduction you must have at least the
following included: 1) explain why it is desirable to change this
behavior, and 2) statistics related to health topic area and they
must be referenced (e.g. CDC, ACS.org, Access to Health
textbook, peer reviewed journal articles from databases such as
PubMed or OhioLink). This is a good place to use your
minimum of 3 references, and do not forget to cite your
references in text; refer to
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/.]
[Second paragraph of the introduction you must have at least
the following included: 1) describe how your behavior was prior
to the start of the project, you may refer to your Holistic
Lifestyle Questionnaire results/Wellness Profile paper, and 2)
describe your overall goal with SMART objectives, you should
have at least four SMART objectives one for each week. The
following is one way to describe your overall goal:
The goal for my behavior change project is to increase and track
the amount of running I do each week using a GPS tracker for
the next four weeks.

4. · Objective 1: For week 1
· Objective 2: During week 2
· Objective 3: Week 3 will include
· Objective 4: By week 4…
Within in the objectives you can include the resources you will
utilize that week such as using the Rec Center, local gym,
exercise classes, website/app for tracking food intake,
survey/assessment, etc.]
Week 1: [Insert a creative title]
[For each week you must have at least the following included:
1) Describe your target goal (SMART objective 1) for the week,
and 2) provide a summary of the progress you made toward your
goal that week in the first paragraph]
[Second paragraph should include: 1) Describe your top 2
motivating factors & explain how they helped you make
progress for the week, and 2) describe your top 2 barriers &
explain how you overcame those obstacles for the week]
[Third paragraph should include: 1) Describe your resources
you used & explain how you used them to make progress toward
your goal that week, and 2) describe your goal for the next
week.]
Week 2: [Insert a creative title]
[For each week you must have at least the following included:
1) Describe your target goal (SMART objective 2) for the week,
and 2) provide a summary of the progress you made toward your
goal that week in the first paragraph.]
[Second paragraph should include: 1) Describe your top 2
motivating factors & explain how they helped you make
progress for the week, and 2) describe your top 2 barriers &
explain how you overcame those obstacles for the week.]
[Third paragraph should include: 1) Describe your resources
you used & explain how you used them to make progress toward
your goal that week, and 2) describe your goal for the next
week.]

5. Week 3: [Insert a creative title]
[For each week you must have at least the following included:
1) Describe your target goal (SMART objective 3) for the week,
and 2) provide a summary of the progress you made toward your
goal that week in the first paragraph.]
[Second paragraph should include: 1) Describe your top 2
motivating factors & explain how they helped you make
progress for the week, and 2) describe your top 2 barriers &
explain how you overcame those obstacles for the week.]
[Third paragraph should include: 1) Describe your resources
you used & explain how you used them to make progress toward
your goal that week, and 2) describe your goal for the next
week.]
Week 4: [Insert a creative title]
[For each week you must have at least the following included:
1) Describe your target goal (SMART objective 4) for the week,
and 2) provide a summary of the progress you made toward your
goal that week in the first paragraph.]
[Second paragraph should include: 1) Describe your top 2
motivating factors & explain how they helped you make
progress for the week, and 2) describe your top 2 barriers &
explain how you overcame those obstacles for the week.]
[Third paragraph should include: 1) Describe your resources
you used & explain how you used them to make progress toward
your goal that week, and 2) describe your goal for the next
week.]
Conclusion
[In the conclusion you must have at least the following
included: 1) Explain how your experience was working towards
your goal over the 4 weeks, 2) Describe what you could have
done differently to work toward your goal, and 3) Describe what
you could do to continue to work toward your goal and what
might be your next goal?]

6. References
[Last name, First initial., & Last name, First initial. (Year).
Title of the article should only have the first word capital:
Capital letter also for subtitle. Title of Journal, Volume
Number, page range.]
[Last name, First initial. (Year of publication). Title of book:
Capital letter also for subtitle. Location: Publisher.]
[Please refer to the following website for more APA Formatting
and Style guide:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/]
Appendix A: Week 1
[Table 1: Title or Figure 1: Title]
[If using a table to show progress, you must include units. If
you are using a figure such as a line graph or a bar graph, you
must include titles for the x- and y-axes, and units.]
Appendix B: Week 2
[Table 1: Title or Figure 1: Title]
[If using a table to show progress, you must include units. If
you are using a figure such as a line graph or a bar graph, you
must include titles for the x- and y-axes, and units.]
Appendix C: Week 3
[Table 1: Title or Figure 1: Title]
[If using a table to show progress, you must include units. If
you are using a figure such as a line graph or a bar graph, you
must include titles for the x- and y-axes, and units.]
Appendix D: Week 4
[Table 1: Title or Figure 1: Title]
[If using a table to show progress, you must include units. If
you are using a figure such as a line graph or a bar graph, you
must include titles for the x- and y-axes, and units.]

7. Behavior change project instructions
So, how did it go? Complete an evaluation on how your project
went over the course of the four weeks by either preparing a 6
page evaluation to answer the behavior change project
evaluation questions. Don’t forget to include any “evidence”
you have collected to show your progress.
Content:
- Introduction to behavior change health topic area (1 page)
o Explain why it is desirable to change this behavior.
o Statistics related to health topic area are referenced.
o Describe how your behavior was prior to the start of the
project
o Describe your overall goal.
- Body paragraphs (can divide by Week #):
o Each question below was clearly answered for each Week
(1-4)
o Describe your target goal (SMART objective) for the week
o Provide a summary of the progress you made toward your
goal that week.
o Describe your top 2 motivating factors & explain how they
helped you make progress for the week.
o Describe your top 2 barriers & explain how you overcame
those obstacles for the week
o Describe your resources you used & explain how you used
them to make progress toward your goal that week.
- Conclusion
o Explain how your experience was working towards your
goal over the 4 weeks.
o Describe what you could do to continue to work toward
your goal. What might be your next goal?
o Describe what you could have done differently to work
toward your goal

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10 Paper Format:
- The paper flowed smoothly.
- Typed, double-space, 1 inch margins, Times New Roman
and 12 font size.
- 4-5 pages NOT including cover page and reference page in
APA Format.
o Minimum of 3 references used (May use class textbook as
1)
- Well written with proper spelling and grammar.
- Appendices: Included “evidence” of working/meeting their
goal. (e.g. graph with the number of daily steps)