HEALTH TIPS: A program to live with

Health Tip – Audio Version – “A program to live with”
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step – Physical Activity for Everyone (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Go from soft living to hard exercise, and from overeating to strict dieting, and the result? Usually, nothing because that approach to being healthier doesn’t last long.

But there is another – a program people can live with. And it’s simple – a moderate, well-balanced diet that emphasizes whole grains, with fruits and vegetables, lean-meat protein and low saturated fats.

Add to that physical activity, to burn some of those calories. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Isa Miles says you should do 30 minutes of moderate physical activity most, preferably all, days of the week to receive overall health benefits:

“Moderate physical activity includes brisk walking, bicycling, vacuuming, gardening, or any other activity that causes some increase in breathing or heart rate.’’

Health Tip courtesy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Last revised: January, 31 2008