1. Bell Ringer Open your student workbook and turn to page 53.
Under the heading Journal Entry, write your responses after reading this statement:
The choices you make today can affect your long-term health and quality of life.
Write whether you agree or disagree with this sentence and explain why.
Give an example that supports your opinion

2. Unit 3: Abstinence, Personal & Sexual Health
Lesson 3: Preventing Chronic Disease

3. Healthy Behavior Outcomes
Practice behaviors that prevent chronic diseases.
Prevent serious health problems that result from common chronic diseases and conditions among youth, such as allergies, asthma, diabetes, and epilepsy.

4. Lesson Objectives By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
Describe the relationship between poor personal health and wellness habits and common chronic diseases.
Analyze the behavioral and environmental risk factors that contribute to the major chronic diseases.

6. What do you notice based on the pie charts?

7. Summary
Heart disease and cancer become more and more common as causes of death as people age.
The top 3 leading causes of death for people under the age of 24 are:
Unintentional injury
Homicide
Suicide
Unintentional injuries include motor vehicle crashes, falls, fires, drowning, and unintended poisonings.

8. Summary (cont.)
Unintentional injury is still the leading cause of death for people ages 25-44, but cancer and heart disease are now second and third.

10. What do you know about the chronic diseases that are some of the leading causes of death for adults in the United States?

11. Summary
Heart Disease – blood vessels become blocked causing chest pain or heart attack.
Cancer – abnormal cells develop and spread through someone’s body
Chronic Lung Disease – airways in lungs are damaged, making it hard to breathe
Alzheimer’s Disease – brain cells are damaged, person loses memory and mental functions

12. Summary (cont.)
Stroke –blood flow to parts of the brain is blocked and cells die
Diabetes – body isn’t able to deal with sugar in the bloodstream
Kidney Disease – dangerous levels of waste builds up in the body

13. Do you think a person has any control over whether they develop a chronic disease? Why or why not?

14. Risk Factors
Various things that can contribute to chronic disease are known as risk factors.
Makes them more likely to get it
The more risk factors a person has, the greater the likelihood the person will develop the disease.
Thing to remember is that you can decrease your chances by decreasing the risk factors that are within your control.

15. Modifiable Risk Factors
Unhealthy eating habits
Physical inactivity
Tobacco use
Illegal drug use
Being overweight or obese
Excessive alcohol use
High blood pressure
High cholesterol
Stress
Exposure to secondhand smoke
Exposure to chemicals
Exposure to pollution
Exposure to the sun

16. Chronic Disease Activity
Each group of 3-4 students gets a chronic disease card and writes down the controllable risk factors that would contribute to that disease. (4 min)
One student from each group comes to the promethean board and checks those risk factors off the checklist.

18. Summary
What would you say are the most common modifiable risk factors for the chronic diseases we’ve looked at?
Tobacco use
Excessive alcohol use
Unhealthy eating habits
Physical inactivity
Good News!!! – People can change all of these things by making different behavior choices.

19. Look back at the Assessing My Health Habits survey on page 2 in your workbook.
How are you doing in the area of health habits? Could you improve any of these habits?
What is one behavior you currently engage in that can help prevent one of the chronic diseases we discussed today?