1. Practicing Healthful Behaviors Page 26
Lesson 3
Practicing Healthful Behaviors
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2. Health Behavior Behavior Habits Healthful behaviors Risk behaviors
The way you act or choose to act in a situation
Can be healthful, or they can put you and others at risk
Habits
Fixed behaviors that you use automatically
Healthful behaviors
Behaviors that promote health, prevent injury and premature death, and improve the quality of the environment
Risk behaviors
Behaviors that threaten health, can cause injury or premature death and harm, or destroy the environment

3. Health Behavior Inventory
Is a tool that helps a person decide how well he/she is practicing healthful behaviors
6 categories of risk behaviors in teens
Behaviors that result in unintentional and intentional injuries
Tobacco use
Alcohol and/or drug use
Sexual behaviors that result in HIV infection or other sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancies
Diet choices that contribute to disease
Lack of physical activity

4. Completing a health behavior inventory
Go to the next clean page in your notebook
Number your paper 1-100
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5. Review your responses
Plan to continue each health behavior that you already practice

6. Analyze each health behavior
Select a behavior you are not doing that could be an important, positive change to your health status
Set realistic steps to achieve this goal
Make a health contract to develop this healthful behavior

7. Health behavior contracts
A written plan to develop the habit of practicing a healthful behavior
5 steps:
1. Write your name and the date
2. Write the healthful behavior you want to practice as a health goal
3. Write specific statements that describe how this healthful behavior reduces health risks
4. Make a specific plan for recording your progress.
5. Complete the evaluation of how the plan helped you accomplish the health goal
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8. Make your own
Make a health behavior contract for a behavior your are not currently doing.
Use page 32 as a guide

9. Lesson 3 homework
Inventory
Contract
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