Healthy Lifestyles

Healthy lifestyles include healthy eating and exercise. Encouraging healthy lifestyles in children is important as they prepare for adolescence and adulthood. Lifestyles that are learned in childhood are more likely to stay with the child into adulthood.

Listed in the directory below you will find additional information regarding helping your adolescent make healthy lifestyle choices, for which we have provided a brief overview.

If you cannot find the information in which you are interested, please visit the Adolescent Medicine Related Web sites page for a list of Web sites that may contain additional information on that topic.

Healthy Eating During Adolescence

Determining Body Mass Index


Cholesterol, LDL, HDL, and Triglycerides
Exercise
Smoking

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