Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks

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Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks

• Lesson 3

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Understanding Health Risks

• Risk behaviors-are actions that can potentially
  threaten your health or the health of others.

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Teen Risk Behaviors

• Examples
• Smoking
• Alcohol drug use
• Sexual experimentation
• Diet
• Inactivity

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Cumulative Risks

• Are related risks that increase in effect with
  each added risk
• Example
• Smoking- 1 cigarette will not result in death but
  over many years can cause cancer and death.
• Junk Food-1 cheeseburger will not make you fat
  but multiple, over time may lead to obesity and
  other health disorders.

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Abstaining from Risk Behaviors

• Abstinence-avoiding harmful behaviors
• Many negative consequences can be avoid by
  choosing to avoid items such as alcohol, drugs
  and tobacco. Examples are addiction, bodily
  harm, death, low social interaction, jail.

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Abstaining from Sexual Activity

• Why? So you dont have to worry about
• Unplanned pregnancy
• Being a single parent
• Responsibility of caring for a child
• STIs
• Emotional problems-guilt, rejection,
• regret

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Group discussion

• List as many ways you can to communicate the
  importance of practicing abstinence to other
  teens.
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