What Is Healthy Living?

What does it take to lead a healthy life? Taking steps toward healthy living can help reduce your risk of heart disease, cancer, and other diseases.

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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
Work on improving your mental health, for example by practicing mediation, relaxation techniques, or gratitude

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