Non-public Health Merit Badge

Requirements have been

REVISED

effective

January 1, 2020.

To see the modifications which were made,

Click here.

For the previous requirements, Click right here

This Merit Badge is Required

to earn the Eagle Scout Rank

For requirement 1 you can click on on the following

hyperlink to get a replica of the New, Simplified Annual Health and Medical Record

The new shape has changed all previous versions and the previous Class 1,

2, and three Personal Health and Medical Record Forms.

It is designed to be filled in and saved for your local pc after which

published out on eight half" x eleven" sheets.

Click Here to down load the Annual Health and Medical Record Form

NOTE: If meeting any of the requirements for this advantage badge is towards

the Scout's non secular convictions, the requirement does no longer have to be executed

if the Scout's dad and mom and the proper non secular advisors country in writing

that to do so might be in opposition to non secular convictions. The Scout's parents

need to additionally accept full duty for some thing that could show up due to the fact

of this exemption.

Do the subsequent:

Before finishing necessities 2 through nine, have your health-care

practitioner come up with a bodily exam, the usage of the Scout clinical

exam form. Explain the following:

Why physical checks are essential

Why preventive behavior (consisting of exercising regularly) are

essential in preserving exact fitness, and the way using tobacco

products, alcohol, and other harmful materials can negatively

affect our private fitness

Diseases that may be avoided and the way

The seven warning signs of most cancers

The youngsters hazard elements that affect cardiovascular fitness

in adulthood.

Have a dental examination . Get a announcement announcing that your

enamel were checked and cared for. Tell how to take care of your

enamel.

Explain to your benefit badge counselor verbally or in writing what

non-public health means to you, along with:

Reasons for being mentally, bodily, socially, and spiritually

suit

What it manner to be mentally healthful

What it manner to be bodily wholesome

What it manner to be socially healthful

With your counselor, solution and talk the subsequent questions:

Are you dwelling in any such way that your hazard of preventable diseases

is minimized?

Are you immunized and vaccinated consistent with the advice of

your healthcare provider and the route of your parent(s)/dad or mum(s)?

Are you loose from behavior referring to negative nutrition and the

use of alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and different practices that might be

dangerous in your health?

What are the benefits to getting a complete night’s sleep?

Define a nutritious, balanced food plan and why it's far critical.

Do you participate in a everyday exercise program or recreational

sports?

What are you doing to demonstrate your duty to God?

Do you spend satisfactory time together with your family and pals in social

and recreational activities?

Do you help own family activities and efforts to maintain a good

home lifestyles?

Explain the subsequent approximately bodily fitness:

The areas of bodily health

Your weakest and most powerful area of physical fitness

The want to have a balance within the 4 regions of physical fitness

How a application like ScoutStrong can lead to lifelong healthy

habits

How the regions of private fitness relate to the Scout Law and

Scout Oath

Explain the subsequent:

The importance of good nutrition

What excellent nutrients approach to you

How desirable vitamins is related to the other components of private

fitness

How to hold a healthy weight

Before doing requirements 7 and 8, do the subsequent:

Complete the cardio health, flexibility, and muscular strength

tests, as defined inside the Personal Fitness benefit badge pamphlet.

Record your outcomes and become aware of the ones regions in which you feel you

need to enhance.

Keep tune of what you eat and drink for 3 days. Identify

3 healthful ingesting dreams you want to paintings on.

Outline a comprehensive 12-week physical fitness program using the

results of your health checks. Be sure your application incorporates the

patience, intensity, and heat-up guidelines mentioned within the Personal

Fitness merit badge pamphlet. Before beginning your sporting activities, have

this system accepted by means of your counselor and parents.

Complete the physical health software you outlined in requirement

7. Keep a log of your fitness software hobby (how lengthy you exercised;

how far you ran, swam, or biked; how many workout repetitions you finished;

your exercise coronary heart fee; and so on.). Keep a log of your weekly healthy consuming

desires. Repeat the cardio fitness, muscular power, and versatility

tests every four weeks and file your effects. After the twelfth week,

repeat all the required sports in every of the three take a look at categories,

file your results, and display improvement in every one. Discuss how well

you met your healthy consuming desires over these 12 weeks. Discuss the which means

and gain of your revel in, and describe your lengthy-time period plans regarding

your personal health.

Find out approximately three career opportunities in personal fitness. Pick

one and discover the training, schooling, and enjoy required for

this profession. Discuss what you found out along with your counselor, and provide an explanation for

why this profession may hobby you.

BSA Advancement ID#:

10

Scoutbook ID#:

84

Requirements last up to date in:

2020

Pamphlet Publication Number:

35927

Pamphlet Stock (SKU) Number:

641577

Pamphlet Revision Date:

2019

 

Worksheets to be used in working on those requirements:

Format

Word Format

PDF Format

 

Page up to date on:

May 08, 2022