Healthy Lifestyle

• Drinking Enough Water

  Water keeps every part of your body working properly. It helps your body flush wastes and stay at the right temperature. It can help prevent kidney stones and constipation. You lose water throughout the day—through your breath, sweat, urine, and...

• Atrial Fibrillation: Living Well

  Learn how to have a healthy, active lifestyle with atrial fibrillation.

• Finding Non-Food Ways to Reward Yourself

  Celebrate your successes with non-food rewards.

• 5 Tips to Keep Your Healthy Lifestyle Change Going

  Learn five tips to help you keep a healthy lifestyle change going.

• How to Eat Healthy When You're Home All The Time

  Learn tips for eating healthy when you're home all the time.

• Prediabetes: Which Path Will You Take?

  Learn how prediabetes motivated one woman to change her habits.

• Healthy Weight: Find Your Inspiration

  What makes you want to reach a healthy weight?

• Coronary Artery Disease: Getting Back on Track

  See how to get back to taking care of your heart.

• Preventing Coronary Artery Disease in Women: First Steps

  See how three women found ways to fit heart-healthy habits into their busy lives.

• Sleep Importance

  Learn why good sleep matters to your health.

• Change a Habit by Setting Goals

  If you've decided to change a habit—whether it's quitting smoking, lowering your blood pressure, becoming more active, or doing something else to improve your health—congratulations! Making that decision is the first step toward making a change. 1. Have your own reason Your reason for wanting to change a...

• Healthy Eating: Helping Your Child Learn Healthy Eating Habits

  Childhood is the best time to learn the healthy habits that can last a lifetime. Healthy eating can help your child feel good, stay at or reach a healthy weight, and have lots of energy for school and play. In fact, healthy eating can help your whole family live better. Return to topic: Healthy Eating for Children...

• Fitness: Teaching Your Child to Stay Active

  Physical activity is essential for lifelong health and well-being. A child can't be healthy if he or she isn't playing actively or exercising most days of the week. One of the very best things you can do for your children's health is to help make physical activity a habit—something that will be a natural part of their...

• Healthy Habits for Kids

  Habits are hard to break. That's why the sooner in life we build good, healthy habits, the easier it is to keep them and stay as healthy as possible. And when good habits are in place, it's easier to resist bad ones. The most important thing to...

• Lifestyle Changes That May Help Prevent Cancer

  Experts believe that one-third to one-half of all cancers can be prevented. That's because there are certain things about our lifestyles—our daily habits—that can make us more likely to get cancer. Here are some steps you can take today to help...

• Drinking and Your Health

  Alcohol can be a safe and enjoyable part of life. If you choose to drink alcohol, the key is to keep your drinking at low to moderate levels. People who drink too much are hurting their health. Heavy drinking can cause all kinds of problems, from stomach and sexual problems to stroke and liver disease. It can also...

• Preparing for a Healthy Pregnancy

  Even though you're not pregnant yet, you might already be thinking about which room to turn into the baby's room and how to decorate it. And you might be making lists of all the baby clothes and supplies that you'll need. But it's also a good time to take some steps to help yourself have a happy pregnancy and a healthy...

• Cardiac Rehabilitation: Lifestyle Changes

  A cardiac rehabilitation (rehab) program can help you make lifestyle changes. In cardiac rehabilitation (rehab), a team of health professionals provides education and support to help you make new, healthy habits. Quitting smoking is the best thing...

• Healthy Habits to Prevent or Reduce Problems From Osteoporosis

  You can slow the onset of osteoporosis or reduce its impact if you form habits that build and strengthen your bones. It is best if you start healthy habits early in life, but it's never too late. Habits that build and strengthen bones include:...

• Healthy Aging

  What is healthy aging? Getting older is a natural part of life. How you will feel as you get older depends on many things, including what health problems run in your family and the choices you make. If you take good care of your body and learn positive ways to deal with stress now, you can slow down or even prevent...

• Enjoying Life When You Have Heart Failure

  People who have heart failure can be active and enjoy life. Daily activities. If you have heart failure, you may find that your symptoms make it difficult to do things like cook, clean, bathe, or shop. You can deal with these limitations in various ways. For example, you can rearrange your kitchen to make...

• Healthy Eating: Overcoming Barriers to Change

  Replacing a bad habit with a good habit takes time and patience. It requires several steps, from setting your goals to getting support. One of the important steps is figuring out what your barriers are. What has stopped you from changing your eating...

• Fitness: Staying Active When You Have Young Children

  Discusses challenges of being a new parent and continuing to exercise. Covers amount of exercise needed for health and why it's important. Also offers tips on how to fit exercise into daily routine at home, at parks or playgrounds, and gyms.

• Fitness: Choosing Activities That Are Right for You

  Presents series of questions/answers regarding being active. Covers topics such as sticking with exercise programs, importance of knowing your preferences, your attitudes toward exercising, as well as choosing the best activity for you.