Health Behaviors and Pathways TO Adulthood

Health behaviors are associated with pathways to adulthood because they have the potential to durably influence a young person’s emotional, cognitive, and social capital. As well as the biological function and structure. In turn, these sources of capital affect young people’s capacities to succeed in the educational, labor, sport, and marriage markets. Indeed, children and adolescents exposed to detrimental parental health behaviors. Especially those who also adopt detrimental health behaviors themselves may have diminished cognitive, emotional, and social capacities that then constrain opportunities to pursue pathways to adulthood involving higher education and/or family formation. 

Health Behavior Key Factors

Adolescent health behaviors are associated with combinations of school, work, and family careers that characterize distinct pathways to adulthood. As well as the environment in general and home environment in particular, type of peers, limited access to inspiration, eating practice, and socioeconomic status.

Stigma As an Example

For instance, the stigma associated with being overweight carries over to the labor market with heavier people facing wage penalties and a lower likelihood of promotion to managerial positions. BMI Adolescent health behaviors may also have cognitive, emotional, and social consequences that, in turn, affect young people’s capacities to succeed in schools, workplaces, and marriage markets.

Adolescence Stage is Very Important

Adolescents should be considered as an important target group for health promotion efforts since persistent health behaviors begin to solidify in adolescence.

4 Health Behaviors That Should Be Under Control 

Eating Practice

Parents or other family members can structure home environments in order to help the child develop healthy eating habits. The home environment affects children’s appetite by manipulation of dietary tastes in order to encourage eating. Especially when fussiness and picky eating are existing and by restricting or limiting the food access when obesity exists (Backett et al. 2010); (Gibson and Cooke 2017). Also, we should focus on the emotional dimension, there the emotional climate in which eating takes place (Albon, 2005). Eating a healthy diet is important for the development of the brain and connection tissues. As well as for building the immunity and nervous system.

Alcohol Use

A wide range of global, regional, and national policies and actions are in place to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. The latest causal relationships suggested by research are those between the harmful use of alcohol and infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Alcohol-related harm is determined by the volume of alcohol consumed, the pattern of drinking, and, on rare occasions, the quality of alcohol consumed. The harmful use of alcohol is a component cause of more than 200 disease and injury conditions in individuals, most notably alcohol dependence, liver cirrhosis, cancers, and injuries. Such consequences may affect your capacities to succeed in schools, workplaces, and marriage markets.

Smoking

The risk of smoking may be associated with depression and the risk of depression can be associated with a genetic variant because health is a function of genetic and environmental exposures. So one factor can lead to another factor and the accumulation of the factors can increase the risk of smoking. Smoking may cause biological aging such as heart disease and increased risk of getting lung cancer. Smoking may directly result in subclinical atherosclerosis through an inflammatory effect on the arterial wall, but it also reduces exercise behavior due to respiratory symptoms. This in turn results in reduced aerobic capacity but also increases obesity. This in turn results in insulin resistance syndrome and is a risk factor for coronary heart disease. That affects the capacities to succeed in schools, workplaces, and marriage markets.

Physical Activity

The high prevalence of physical inactivity is a global problem, that contributes to increased morbidity, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, musculoskeletal diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, mental illness and diabetes, higher rates of premature death, obesity, overweight and increased, weakness, as well as economic costs. The well-trained individual has a better opportunity to be attractive for working place. Consequently, that may affect your capacities to succeed in schools, workplaces, and marriage markets. Therefore, training at least two days a week could improve your biological and social state and keep you away from diseases.