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