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Summary

Many factors affect your health. Some you cannot control, such as your genetic makeup or your age. But you can make changes to your lifestyle. By taking steps toward healthy living, you can help reduce your risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke and other serious diseases:

Get the screening tests you need
Maintain a healthy weight
Eat a variety of healthy foods, and limit calories and saturated fat
Be physically active
Control your blood pressure and cholesterol
Don't smoke
Protect yourself from too much sun
Drink alcohol in moderation, or don't drink at all
Get enough sleep every day

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Creating Healthy Habits: Make Better Choices Easier (National Institutes of Health) Also in Spanish
Five Minutes (or Less) for Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Tips for Healthy Children and Families (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish
What You Can Do to Maintain Your Health (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish

Diagnosis and Tests

Health Screening: MedlinePlus Health Topic (National Library of Medicine) Also in Spanish

Related Issues

Changing Your Habits: Steps to Better Health (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) - PDF
Disability and Health: Healthy Living (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish
Health Guides: Health Is a State of Mind and Body (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish
How Can Spirituality Affect Your Family's Health? (Nemours Foundation)
Make Celebrations Fun, Healthy, and Active: 10 Tips to Creating Healthy, Active Events (Department of Agriculture) - PDF
Mind/Body Connection: How Your Emotions Affect Your Health (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish
Mindfulness Matters Can Living in the Moment Improve Your Health? (National Institutes of Health)
Music for Your Health (American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists)
Nurturing Healthy Neighborhoods: Communities Affect Health (National Institutes of Health)
Plants: Partners in Health? Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and You (National Institutes of Health) Also in Spanish

Health Check Tools

Body Weight Planner (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
SuperTracker: My Foods. My Fitness. My Health. (Department of Agriculture)

Statistics and Research

Healthy Habits Can Lengthen Life (National Institutes of Health) Also in Spanish
Resveratrol Does Not Affect Health, Longevity in Population Study (National Institute on Aging)

Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

Reference Desk

Definitions of Health Terms: General Health (National Library of Medicine)

Find an Expert

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Also in Spanish

Children

Healthy Living (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
Kids: Passing on Healthy Habits to Your Children (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish
Tips for Healthy Children and Families (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish

Teenagers

Teenagers: How to Stay Healthy (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish

Seniors

Healthy Aging: MedlinePlus Health Topic (National Library of Medicine) Also in Spanish

Patient Handouts

Healthy living (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish

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