1. Healthy Living
- How to prevent illness and injury by making wise health and lifestyle choices

2. Basic Health Habits
Stay up to date with Immunizations and health screenings
Be physically active
Eat right
Maintain a healthy body weight
Be tobacco-free
Avoid drugs and excess alcohol

3. continued Manage stress Take care of your teeth Practise safety
Pursue healthy pleasures

4. Avoiding bad habits can lead to a better lifestyle

5. Immunizations
Help your immune system recognize and quickly attack organisms that can cause diseases before those organisms can cause problems
Tetanus – Diphtheria (Td) Booster taken at years of age

6. Health Screening (11-24 years)
Height and weight (periodically)
Blood pressure (2 – 5 years)
Cervical Cancer Screening Test (1 – 3 years) for any female who has ever had sexual intercourse
Chlamydia (routine for sexually active females)

7. Physically active Lowers your risk of premature death
Reduces risk of developing diabetes, high blood pressure, colon cancer, and osteoporosis
Lowers high cholesterol and blood pressure levels
Improves mood, relieves stress, promotes a sense of well-being

8. Continued Build and maintain healthy bones, muscles, and joints
Helps you maintain a healthy body weight

9. Eat right Your diet plays an important role in helping you:
Meet your nutritional needs and maintain a healthy weight
Have regular bowel movements
Prevents diseases such as heart disease, certain cancers
Treat diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure

10. Maintain a Healthy Body Weight
Weight is not the only measurement of health
Your body weight may say very little about your health
Heredity plays a big role in body shape and what you weigh
The Body Mass Index provides an estimate of your total body fat

11. Other measurements of health;
Your fitness level
Quality of your diet and your eating habits
Presence of high cholesterol in your system and/or high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes
How fat is distributed
Your self-esteem and body image