Fitness - Steps to a Healthy Life

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1. Are Steroids Worth the Risk?
2. Obesity
3. The Obesity Epidemic - Positive Changes on the Horizon
4. Pilates
5. Sports Physicals
6. Sports Supplements
7. T'ai Chi
8. Yoga

Publications & web sites

1. BAM! Body and Mind - This website has interactive tools to help teens increase their level of physical activity and establish fitness habits that will stay with them for life.
2. Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls. - This interactive website offers information for young women on the importance of doing weight-bearing exercises. It also contains information on calcium-rich foods, and ways to prevent osteoporosis (bone disease).
3. Girl Power! - Girl Power! Is all about helping young women make the most of their lives. The website offers health information and support for young women and their positive values.
4. VERB - It's what you do - This interactive website provides young people with fun ideas on how to become physically active.
5. Exercise: How to Get Started (Copyright © AAFP) - This fact sheet has information on why it’s important to exercise, who should exercise, and how to get started.
6. Fit Teens (Copyright © APTA) - This publication has information on exercise for teens, with tips on stretches, getting into shape, and the benefits of different types of activity.

Organizations

1. President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
2. Center for Young Women's Health

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Last updated July 2004

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