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4.1.5 Practice: Personal Health Plan Question 1 You will be using what you've learned in this lesson to develop a personal wellness plan to help protect yourself from both communicable and noncommunicable diseases. Start by identifying controllable and uncontrollable risk factors for disease. Communicable Controllable Uncontrollable Taking vitamins If your immune system sucks Washing hands If you are just surrounded by sick people in class Brushing teeth (because we are kids) if your parents don’t believe in vaccinations Taking shower If someone else sneezes on you or coughs on you Get vaccines If the vaccine strand was predicted wrongly Noncommunicable Controllable Uncontrollable Exercising Age Drugs or alcohol Genetics / family history Stress / anger Financial situation (somewhat controllable actually) Diet gender Financial situation (somewhat controllable) race Question 2 Use the chart to differentiate between some of the lifelong effects of positive and negative health behaviors. Behavior Possible ou