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Lifestyle

Healthy Living

Healthy living means making positive choices that enhance your physical health, and foster your mental and spiritual health. Those choices include enjoying physical activity as part of your daily life to keep your body strong, reduce stress, improve your energy, and have fun; and eating a variety of nutritious food from all of the food groups as suggested by Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating.

Physical inactivity is an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease — in other words, if you don't exercise you dramatically increase your risk of dying from a heart attack. Conversely, exercise means a healthier heart because it reduces several cardiovascular risks, including high blood pressure.

Regular exercise boosts high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or "good" cholesterol while decreasing low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or "bad" cholesterol. This one-two punch keeps your blood flowing smoothly by lowering the buildup of plaques in your arteries. Regular exercise can help prevent type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and certain types of cancer. Being physically active can also bolster good mental health by helping you to manage stress, anxiety, and even depression.