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OVER HALF of all serious disease in the U.S. could be prevented with healthier lifestyles.
By following these nine lifestyle recommendations, you can lower your risk of cancer,
heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, and diabetes. Before you know it, you’ll
also have more energy and get a boost to your mood.
So take control of your health, and encourage your family to do the same. Choose
one or two behaviors to start with. Once you’ve got those down, move on to
the others.
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Despite confusing news reports, the basics of healthy eating are
actually quite straightforward. You should focus on fruits, vegetables, and whole
grains, and keep red meat to a minimum. It's also important to cut back on bad fats
(saturated and trans fats), and choose healthy fats (polyunsaturated and monounsaturated
fats) more often. Taking a multivitamin with folate every day is a great nutrition
insurance policy.
Tips
- Make fruits and vegetables a part of every meal. Put fruit on your
cereal. Eat vegetables as a snack.
- Choose chicken, fish, or beans, instead of red meat.
- Choose whole-grain cereal, brown rice, and whole-wheat bread over their
more refined counterparts.
- Choose dishes made with olive or canola oil, which are high in healthy
fats.
- Cut back on fast food and store-bought snacks (like cookies), which
are high in bad fats.
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Buy a 100% RDA multivitamin that contains folate.
For parents and grandparents
- Make fruits and vegetables a part of every meal. Put fruit on your
cereal. Eat vegetables as a snack.
- Choose chicken, fish, or beans, instead of red meat.
- Choose whole-grain cereal, brown rice, and whole-wheat bread over their
more refined counterparts.
- Choose dishes made with olive or canola oil, which are high in healthy
fats.
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Cut back on fast food and store-bought snacks (like cookies), which are high in
bad fats.
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