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Choosing A Healthy Lifestyle

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Making Healthy Choices

Every day, you make choices about your health — choices that affect the quality of your life. Your physical and emotional well-being are largely determined by the foods you eat, your level of activity, daily habits and general outlook on life.

Millions of Americans suffer from preventable causes of chronic disease and death such as:

  • Cancer.
  • Diabetes.
  • Heart disease.

You may be able to avoid these problems, even if heredity is a factor.

Making good health choices may seem overwhelming. It can be hard to keep up with all the information available to you — and even harder to decide what advice to follow. The best advice is to:

  • Understand and address your