GCSE Physical Education · key term

Lifestyle choice

Definition

A decision about how a person lives and behaves that can affect their health, fitness and wellbeing.

Used by Edexcel

Specification 1.1.6, 1.1.7 · Paper 2

Lifestyle choices are decisions about how we live and behave that can affect health, fitness and wellbeing. They include what we eat, how active we are, how we balance work with rest and sleep, and whether we use recreational drugs such as alcohol or nicotine.
Revise: Lifestyle choices
A decision about everyday habits, such as eating, physical activity, rest, sleep or recreational drug use, that can affect health.
Revise: Impact of lifestyle choices

1
When applying lifestyle choices to a sporting context, identify a specific behaviour rather than simply saying someone has a ‘healthy lifestyle’.
2
Link a lifestyle choice to its effect, then explain the consequence for health, fitness or wellbeing. For example: smoking can cause breathlessness, making sustained exercise harder.
3
Use ‘increases the risk’ for diseases: a harmful lifestyle choice does not mean everyone will develop the same illness.

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