Ch 1 Living a Healthy LifeLesson 3: Your Behavior and Reducing

Health Risks

Risk Behaviors

Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others

First, understand individual responsibility and second examine your current behaviors

Examples Make any changes if need be

Recognize Risk Behaviors

Youth Risk Behavior Survey › Information gathered by the Center for

Disease Control and Prevention› Survey teens nation wide to monitor their

risk behaviors YRBS

Cumulative Risks and Consequences

Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk› If negative behaviors are repeated over

time the negative effects accumulate and lead to serious health consequences

› Cumulative risks may result from combinations of risk factors; such as speeding and bad weather.

Abstaining from Risk Behaviors

Abstinence!!!› Avoiding harmful behaviors› The only way to avoid the consequences of

some of the most serious risk behaviors Stay away from drugs, alcohol,

tobacco, and sexual activity