1. Understanding Health and Wellness
Chapter 1
Understanding Health and Wellness
Lesson 4
Health Risks and Your
Behavior
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2. Actions or choices that may harm you or others
The chance that something harmful may happen to your health and wellness
risk
risk behaviors
Actions or choices that may harm you or others
consequences
The results of actions
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cumulative risk
When one risk factor adds to another to increase danger

3. Taking steps to avoid something
prevention
Taking steps to avoid something
The conscious, active choice to not participate in high-risk behaviors
abstinence
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4. In this lesson, you will be able to
describe how risks and risk behaviors can affect your health.
explain that risk behaviors have consequences.
identify ways to avoid or reduce risk.

5. Risk and Risk Behaviors
Riding a bike without a helmet is an example of a risk.
risk The chance that something harmful may happen to your health and wellness
Some risks are hidden, such as a habit of snacking on high-fat foods. Eating these foods may lead to unhealthful weight gain and heart disease later in life.
Some risks are hidden, such as a habit of snacking on high-fat foods
Eating these foods may lead to unhealthful weight gain and heart disease later in life.

6. Risk and Risk Behaviors
Smoking cigarettes is an example of a risk behavior.
risk behavior Actions or choices that may harm you or others
Risks that can be avoided often involve risk behaviors.
Risks that can be avoided often involve risk behaviors.

7. Risk behavior has consequences.
Risk and Consequences
Risk behavior has consequences.
consequences The results of actions
Some risks have consequences that may not be physically dangerous and may affect only you.
Other risks can have serious consequences, and everyone’s health can suffer.
Some risks have consequences that may not be physically dangerous and may affect only you.
Other risks can have serious consequences, and everyone’s health can suffer.

8. Teens and Risks
Many teens know ways in which to reduce risks to the health problems of adolescence.
Many teens also know how to compare the benefits and risks of activities to reduce risk to themselves.
For example:
* Teens know that using tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs are risk behaviors that have many serious effects on health and wellness.
Teens know that using tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs are risk behaviors that have many serious effects on health and wellness.
Teens know that wearing a safety belt will help protect them in the event of a motor vehicle accident.
Teens also understand that regular exercise helps fight heart disease and other illnesses.
For example:
* Teens know that wearing a safety belt will help protect them in the event of a motor vehicle accident.
* Teens also understand that regular exercise helps fight heart disease and other illnesses.

9. Jogging along a busy street…
How Risk Adds Up
Risk
Risk
Risk
Jogging along a busy street…
…at night…
…in a rainstorm.
= cumulative risk
The greater the number of risks, the greater the chances of negative consequences.
cumulative risk When one risk factor adds to another to increase danger
The greater the number of risks,
the greater the chances of negative consequences.

10. Every activity carries some sort of risk
Is It Worth the Risk?
Every activity carries some sort of risk
These activities also offer benefits
Ask yourself, “are the benefits worth the risk?”
example: physical activity carries the risk of injury
physical activity improves your health
What can you do to reduce or eliminate the risk?
Every activity carries some sort of risk. For example, physical activity carries the risk of injury.
The skill of accessing information can help you research what healthful behaviors can reduce risks. For example, research has shown that wearing a safety belt when riding in a vehicle cuts the risk of serious injury in half in the event of a crash.

11. How to Avoid or Reduce Risks
Abstinence is a form of prevention.
abstinence The conscious, active choice not to participate in a high-risk behavior
prevention Taking steps to avoid something

12. How to Avoid or Reduce Risks
Prevention
Abstinence
Wearing a helmet when riding a bike
Slowing down on wet or icy pavement
Watching out for possible dangers
Choosing not to smoke
Choosing to stay away from alcohol and other drugs
Choosing not to engage in sexual activity
By practicing prevention and abstinence, you avoid the consequences of risky behaviors.

13. Risks and Your Total Health
Avoiding risks behaviors will help prevent illness and injuries, contributing to your physical health.
When you take steps to reduce risks, you feel good about making responsible health decisions, contributing to your mental/emotional health.
Avoiding risks behaviors can keep others safe, contributing to your social health.
By practicing abstinence from risk behaviors, you take an active role in caring for your health. This will benefit each side of your health triangle.
By practicing abstinence from risk behaviors, you take an active role in caring for your health. This will benefit each side of your health triangle.

14. What I Learned Vocabulary Define prevention and use it in a sentence.
Lesson 4 Review
What I Learned
Vocabulary Define prevention and use it in a sentence.
Prevention means taking steps to avoid something. Sentences should use the term correctly.
Prevention means taking steps to avoid something. Sentences should use the term correctly.

15. Lesson 4 Review
What I Learned
Give Examples Name three risk behaviors that can have negative health consequences.
Sample answer: not wearing safety belts, drinking alcohol, and smoking cigarettes

16. Lesson 4 Review
What I Learned
Explain What does abstinence mean? Give examples of practicing abstinence.
Abstinence is the conscious, active choice not to participate in high-risk behaviors. An example is choosing not to smoke.
Abstinence is the conscious, active choice not to participate in high-risk behaviors. An example is choosing not to smoke

17. Lesson 4 Review
What I Learned
List Name two or more risk factors that can create a cumulative risk.
Sample answer: jogging on a busy street, at night, and during a rainstorm
Sample answer: jogging on a busy street, at night, and during a rainstorm

18. Lesson 4 Review
Thinking Critically
Hypothesize Suppose two teens are riding their bikes on a busy street at night. One is wearing a helmet and the other is not. Describe the risks that both teens are taking. What possible consequences do these risks carry?
Answers should include the idea that riding at night and riding on a busy street both increase the risk of being hit by a vehicle and injured or killed. The teen not wearing a helmet is further increasing his or her risk of injury or death.
Answers should include the idea that riding at night and riding on a busy street both increase the risk of being hit by a vehicle and injured or killed. The teen not wearing a helmet is further increasing his or her risk of injury or death.

19. Lesson 4 Review
Thinking Critically
Apply Give an example of how prevention can help a person avoid a risk.
Answers should include a specific risk and explain how it can be prevented.
Answers should include a specific risk and explain how it can be prevented

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Health Risks and Your Behavior
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