1. Chapter 1
Understanding Health and Wellness
Lesson 3
Health Risks and your Behavior

2. Identifying Health Risks
Engaging in risk behaviors can harm your health.

3. Identifying Health Risks
You can control most risk behaviors.
Risk behaviors
Avoiding risks will help you to

4. Recognizing Risk Behaviors
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified six of the most significant risk behaviors for young people under age 24. 1 4 2 5
Unhealthy dietary behaviors 3 6
Behaviors that contribute to injuries and violence

5. Risks and Consequences
Risk behaviors carry
Both the short-term and long-term consequences can
Some risk behaviors can even be

6. Risks and Consequences
Consequences of Tobacco Use
Short-Term Consequences
Long-Term Consequences
emphysema

7. Risks and Consequences
When you repeatedly engage in certain risk behaviors you expose yourself to the effects of cumulative risks.
Cumulative Risks

8. Risks and Consequences
Cumulative risks also increase when several risk factors are combined.
Doing both at the same time creates a greater cumulative risk of getting into a car accident.

9. How to Avoid or Reduce Risks
You can take action to reduce your exposure to health risks.
You can protect your health and minimize the possibility of risk by

10. How to Avoid or Reduce Risks
Another way to reduce health risks is through prevention.
Prevention

11. How to Avoid or Reduce Risks

12. Abstaining from High-Risk Behaviors
One of the most effective strategies for protecting your health is practicing abstinence.
Abstinence

13. Abstaining from High-Risk Behaviors
Reasons to Practice Abstinence   
Show that you value your well-being. 

14. Promoting Your Health
Regularly participating in health-promoting behaviors will help you reach a high level of wellness.
Understanding how your decisions impact your health

15. Promoting Your Health
Participating in positive health behaviors benefits

16. Lifestyle Factors
Scientists have found that positive lifestyle factors improve people’s overall health, happiness, and longevity.
Lifestyle factors

17. Lifestyle Factors Positive Lifestyle Factors
Get eight hours of sleep each night.
Be physically active for 30 to 60 minutes most days of the week.

18. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Define the term risk behavior.

19. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Why is cumulative risk a serious concern?

20. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
How might changes in lifestyle factors influence your health in positive ways?