A Lifetime of Good Health: Your Guide to Staying Healthy

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This guide to staying healthy is brought to you by womenshealth.gov because we understand women's needs for quick and trustworthy information to help their constantly changing bodies and minds. Your health needs nurturing to live long and well throughout the years, which requires a holistic approach throughout the "health span"- the quality years you can have in addition to just your years of life. This approach to life-long health begins with healthy behaviors to prevent and manage the many health conditions that can affect you. Although there are genetic risks that you cannot control for many diseases, there are some risks that you can overcome by following key preventive steps. These steps are outlined in this booklet and are not difficult to follow! Please use them to make healthy choices for yourself and for the people you love.

Source: womenshealth.gov

Take Charge of Your Health! A Guide for Teenagers!

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Does your life move at a hectic pace?

You may feel stressed from school, after-school activities, peer pressure, and family relationships. Your busy schedule may lead you to skip breakfast, buy lunch from vending machines, and grab whatever is in the refrigerator for dinner when you get home.

Source: Weight-control Information Network

Bone Up on Bone Loss! Exercise to Build Healthy Bones!

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This two-sided page is part of the NICHD Milk Matters campaign, designed to teach parents, children, and health care professionals about the importance of calcium for children and teens. In addition to calcium, bones need weight-bearing activity to make them strong. This fact sheet explains bone-building activities, lists some examples, and describes their benefits for bone health. This item is also available through the We Can! program.

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National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

2004 SGR - The Health Consequences of Smoking: What It Means to You

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This four-color, easy-to-read summary of the Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General (2004) was developed for the public. This document explains what the report says and what it means to you. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causing many diseases, reducing the health of smokers in general, and often leading to incurable disease and death.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Healthy Living: Tips to Improve Your Daily Life

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By Doctors, For You

The health content in this report was designed to be of use to everyone concerned about their health and the health of those that matter to them. Written by health experts, it provides valuable content written in a simple, efficient manner to ensure an ultimate degree of professional expertise, reliability, and perspective that is sensitive to the needs of people facing health issues.

Source: Medicinenet