February is internationally known as Healthy Lifestyle Awareness Month, and might help South Africans who made New Year’s resolutions to keep to their 2017 resolutions.
In South Africa, 22 February is the official National Healthy Lifestyles Day. The government uses the day to galvanise all South Africans to participate in its healthy lifestyle campaign.
The five elements of a healthy lifestyle:
• Promotion of good nutrition
• Regular physical activity
• Tobacco control
• Interventions against alcohol and substance abuse
• Promotion of safe sexual behaviour
The day also focuses on creating awareness about the dangers of obesity, an unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity as risk factors by promoting health and well-being among individuals, communities and populations.
Source: www.gov.za
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