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Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks

Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks. Draw and Label a Health Triangle. For each side, identify 2 decisions you have made during the past few days that could affect your health. Social. Physical. Mental/Emotional. Risk Behaviors.

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Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks

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  1. Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks

  2. Draw and Label a Health Triangle • For each side, identify 2 decisions you have made during the past few days that could affect your health Social Physical Mental/Emotional

  3. Risk Behaviors • Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others • What are ways to reduce health risks when engaging in physical activity?

  4. Cumulative Risks • Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk • Smoking • High fat diet • Not wearing sunscreen • The more risks you participate in, the more likely you are to experience negative consequences at some point

  5. Abstinence • The only way to avoid the consequences of some of the most serious risks behaviors is to practice abstinence!! (not engaging in risky behaviors) • Avoiding high-risk behaviors and choosing friends who do so is one of the best ways to achieve and maintain wellness

  6. YRBS • YRBS

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