INTERCONNECTIONS CHART

Directions: Find 2 connections between the Center for Disease Controls health priority areas and
your health fair topic. Describe how your health fair topic relates to all the health priority areas (two
facts for each category).
YOU MUST CITE YOUR SOURCEBE SPECIFIC (Author, web site address, journal, magazine,
etc)
Use the bullets underneath each priority area as subtopics - if you are having difficulty
connecting to the Main Priority Area.
CDC Health Priority How is the listed health priority area connected to your
Area topic? Cite your source
Tobacco use - The nicotine and carbon monoxide from smoking may
Nicotine make your blood sticky and your arteries may become
Smoking narrow. Narrow arteries reduce the flow of blood to your
Chew, snuff heart, muscles, and other body organs, making exercise
Cigarette harder. During exercise, blood flow helps boost oxygen
supply to your muscles. If your muscles dont get oxygen
fast enough, your body cant work as well.
- Exercise can be an important part of your plan to quit
smoking. Exercise reduces cravings and helps you
manage other withdrawal symptoms and reduce stress.
Plus, when you quit, your heart rate will decrease, your
blood circulation will increase, and your lung function
will improve.
Source:
https://www.smokefree.gov/quitting-smoking/reasons-quit/how-
smoking-affects-your-workout
Alcohol and other drug use - The study found only a weak benefit in
Drinking lowering deaths from heart-related issues
Alcoholism
among those who exercised.
Drug addiction
- drinking itself is linked to higher rates of
All illegal drugs
All medication early death from any cause, as well as death
from cancer....But when Stamatakis layered in
the amount of exercise people reported, he
found that only those who werent physically
activemeaning they did not meet the
recommended 150 minutes of
moderate-to-intense exercise a weekshowed
similar patterns of higher mortality.

Source:http://time.com/4483178/exercise-alcohol-health-benef
its/
Behaviors that contribute to - Females who exercised more than 10 days in the last
unintentional injuries and month had decreased odds of being in a gang.
violence
Car accidents
- Those who participated in team sports in the past year
Reckless behavior
had decreased odds of carrying a weapon, being in a
Homicide/murder
fight, or being in a gang.
Self-harm
behaviors
Gang
violence/bullying
Source:https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public-health-now/
news/teen-girls-who-exercise-are-less-likely-be-violent
Unhealthy dietary behaviors - Prevent chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer,
High and stroke (the three leading health-related causes of
fat/cholesterol
diets death)
High sodium - When you are not physically active, you are more at
Eating disorders risk for: High blood pressure, High blood cholesterol,
Over Stroke, Type 2 diabetes, Heart disease and Cancer
eating/Binge eating

Source:https://www.fitness.gov/be-active/why-is-it-important/
Inadequate physical activity - Prevalence of obesity for children ages 12 to 19 years
Sedentary tripled from Early 1970s: 6% to 2007-08: 18%
Inactive
Lack of exercise
(exercise)
Physical activity - More than 80% of adults do not meet the guidelines for
both aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities, and
more than 80% of adolescents do not do enough aerobic
physical activity to meet the guidelines for youth.
Source:https://www.fitness.gov/resource-center/facts-and-statis
tics/
Sexual behaviors that may - One Harvard study of more than 31,000 men found that
result in HIV infection, other physically active men over age 50 were less likely to be
sexually transmitted diseases,
impotent than inactive men.
and unintended pregnancies
HIV/AIDS
STIs/STDs - A recent study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine
Premature birth suggests that men who worked out at a moderate to
Birth defects vigorous intensity at least 15 hours a week had higher
sperm counts than inactive men.
Source:http://www.webmd.com/men/features/exercise-better-se
xual-health#1