Reducing Your Health Risks
Chapter 1
Lesson #3 pg 17-21
Your behavior and Reducing Health Risks
Objective 1: Promote your own health and reduce
risk.
Objective 2: Describe the consequences of taking
risks.
Objective 3: Evaluate the importance of abstinence
from risk behaviors, including sexual
activity before marriage.
Risk Behaviors
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Actions that can potentially threaten
your health or the health of others
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Not wearing seatbelt
Using tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs
Physical inactivity and poor nutrition
habits
Risky sexual behaviors
Cumulative Risks
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Related risks that increase in effect
with each added risk, or
combinations of risky behaviors.
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Examples: Smoking, eating a fast food
meal, not wearing a seat belt………can
you name any more???
Abstaining from risky behaviors
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Abstinence is avoidance of harmful
behaviors
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Tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs
Sexual activity, see pg. 20
Show Video Titled:
Risky Behavior: the dark side of
bad choices.
Activity…
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On a piece of paper, divide the page
into three columns.
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In the left column make a list of 5 risky
situations and behaviors.
In the center column describe potential
consequences or outcomes.
In the last column list ways to minimize
and/or abstain from those risks.
Interactive study guide
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http://glencoe.mcgrawhill.com/sites/dl/free/0078726549/3
59984/InterActCh1Ls3.html
Flashcard activity
http://www.glencoe.com/qe/efcwin.p
hp?qi=10378
Online Practice Quiz
http://glencoe.mcgrawhill.com/sites/0078726549/student_v
iew0/chapter1/online_quizzes.html