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• Fit for Two

  This booklet provides tips and ideas to improve your eating plan and become more physically active before, during, and after your pregnancy.

  Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)

• Fitness Programs: 5 Steps to Getting Started

  These guidelines will take you through five steps for getting started with a fitness program, including assessing your fitness level, desigining a program that's right for you, assembling your equipment, taking action, and monitoring your progress.

  Mayo Clinic

• Getting on Track: Physical Activity and Healthy Eating for Men

  This booklet has tips for men for getting on track with healthy habits, including eating smart and getting fit.

  Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)

• Keeping Active

  This guide shows you how to incorporate regular physical activity into your daily life, with encouraging tips and suggested goals for getting started.

  Diabetes Australia

• Move to Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible

  This tip sheet provides helpful ways to lower the risk of high blood pressure through physical activity.

  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Insitute (NHLBI)

• Physical Activity: The "Magic Pill"

  This article emphasizes the importance of incorporating physical activity in your everyday life to reduce your risk of chronic diseases.

  President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports

• Prevent Type 2 Diabetes: Step by Step (Prevengamos la diabetes tipo 2. Paso a paso)

  This tip sheet helps Hispanics/Latinos at risk for type 2 diabetes move more and eat less to reduce their risk. En español

  National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

• Reducing Cardiometabolic Risk: Patient Education Toolkit

  This comprehensive kit includes reproducible patient education handouts on 29 topics related to cardiometabolic risk reduction, prediabetes, diabetes, and CVD. En español

  American Diabetes Association (ADA)

• Simple Chair Exercises

  This guide provides simple exercises you can do while sitting to increase your strength, flexibility, and mobility.

  Diabetes Australia

• Sit and Be Fit

  This televised chair exercise program was developed by a team of medical and fitness professionals to improve the health and wellness of older adults, physically limited individuals, and those managing chronic conditions and chronic pain.

  Sit and Be Fit