Eating a variety of healthful foods and getting enough exercise and rest help people to stay healthy. Some things people take into their bodies from the environment can hurt them. Some diseases are caused by germs and some are not. Diseases caused by germs may be spread by people who have them. Washing one's hands with soap and water reduces the number of germs that can get into the body or that can be passed on to other people.
People react to personal problems in different ways.
Some ways are more likely to be helpful than others. The FOSS program does not include a component developing concepts related to the human organism. The proficiencies on this page were developed by the Indiana Department of Education from the Benchmarks for Science Literacy .