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NHLBIHIN
Your Heart Your Life
A Lay Health Educator's Program
Learning About Heart Health
 Español  Teaching Heart Health  Your Heart Your Life Home
 Welcome
 Reviewing Risk Factors
 Part 1: Benefits of Physical Activity
 Part 2: Types of Physical Activity
 Part 3: Important Things to Know
 Part 4: Finding Time to be Physically Active
 Part 5: Walking
 Part 6: Staying Motivated
 Review of Key Points
 Closing
Coming Soon, Watch for other heart education topics

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Part 1: Benefits of Physical Activity

Not getting enough physical activity is a major health risk for people today.


Being physically
inactive puts you
at risk for
heart disease.





The good news
is that you can
do something about
this risk factor.





Unfortunately,
physical inactivity
is rising among
Latinos, especially
Latino women
and children.



As a person gets
older, having
little or no
physical activity
can lead to
health problems.

Doña Fela can tell you a story about physical activity in her family (pdf *, 396 kb).


* Information about PDF

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Archived page, reproduced from a 2006 copy. It is reference material, not current guidance.