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Healthy Lifestyle 

What is a Healthy Lifestyle?

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A healthy lifestyle leaves you fit, happy, energetic and at reduced risk for disease, based on the choices you make about your daily habits.

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Good nutrition, daily exercise and adequate sleep are the foundations for continuing good health.

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Managing stress in positive ways, and maintaining healthy relationships leads to a mentally healthy lifestyle.

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Physical Activity

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Healthy Eating

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The right nutrition is necessary to live a healthy lifestyle.

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Your body requires a well-balanced diet every day in order to maintain the adequate amounts of vitamins, nutrients and minerals needed to maintain a healthy body.

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Stress Management

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Emotional stress plays an important role in many illnesses, both directly and indirectly.

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People are also more likely to smoke, overeat, drink too much, work too hard, argue with others and so on, when they are feeling stressed.

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So, stress management is an important part of your new lifestyle, and meditation and relaxation techniques are truly a key part of living a healthy lifestyle. Loving yourself is a key to a healthy, happy lifestyle.

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Self-esteem is important because feeling good about yourself can affect how you act.

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Physical activity improves health and well-being. It reduces stress, strengthens the heart and lungs, increases energy levels, helps you maintain and achieve a healthy body weight and it improves your outlook on life.

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Physical activity is something that everyone can do. Look for simple ways to be physically active every day.

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