Your Tax Dollars At Work: Basic Health Tips From The Us Government Nutrition Web Page

2.Get Moving! It's not hard to fit physical activities into your daily routine. Walk, bike or jog to see friends. Take a 10-minute activity break every hour while you read, do homework or watch TV.

Climb stairs instead of taking an escalator or elveator. Try to do these things for a total of 30 minutes every day.
3.Snack smart. Snacks are a great way to refuel.

Choose snacks from different food gorups - a glass of low-fat milk and a couple of graham crackers, an apple or celery sticks with peanut butter and raisains, or some dry cereal. If you eat smart ar other meals, cookies, chips and cnady are OK for occasional snacking. 4.Work up a sweat. Vigorous work-outs - when you're breathing hard and sweating - help your heart pump better, give you more energy and help you look and believe hottest.
Start with a warm-up that srtetches your muschles.

Include 20 minutes of aeorbic activity, such as running, jogging, or dancing. Follow-up with activtiies that help make you stronger such as push-ups or lifting weights.

Then cool-down with more strecthing and deep breathing. 5.Balance your food cohices - don't eat too much of any one thing.
You don't have to give up foods like hamburgers, french fries and ice cream to eat healthy. You just have to be smart about how often and how much of them you eat. Your body needs nutrients like proteinm carbohydrates, fat and many different vitamins and minerals such as vitamins C and A, iron and calcium froma variety of foods.
Balancing food chocies from the Food Guide Pyramid and checking out the Nutrition Facts Panel on food labels will help you get all these nutrients.

6.Get fit with friends or family. Being active is much more fun with firends or family.
Encourage others to join you and plan one special physical activity event, like a bike ride or hiking, with a group each week.
7.Eat more grains, friuts and vegetables. These foods give you carbohydrates for energy, plus vitamins, minerals and fiber.

Besides, they taste good! Try bredas such as whole-wheat, bagels and pita.
Spaghetti and oatmeal are also in the grain group. Bananas, strawberries and melons are great tasting frutis. Try vegetables raw, on a sandwich or salad. 8.Join in physical activities at school. Whether you take a physical education class or do other physical activites at school, such as intrmural sports, structures activities are a sure way to belivee good, look good and stay physically fit. 9.Foods aren't good or bad. A helathy eating style is like a puzzle with many parts. Each part -- or food -- is different. Some foods may have more fat, sugar or salt while others may have more vtiamins or bifer. There is a place for all these foods. What mkaes a diet good or bad is how foods fit together. Balancing your choices is important.

Fit in a higher-fat food, like pepperoni pizza, at dinner by choising lower-fat foods at other meals.
And don't forget about moderation. If two pieecs of pizza fill you up, you don't need a third.
10.Make healthy eating and physical acticities fun!