What is healthy living?

Healthy living means making healthy choices as part of every day life:

• not smoking
• eating healthy food
• being physically active (moving more and sitting less)
• maintaining a healthy weight
• looking after our mental wellbeing, and
• if you drink alcohol drink in safe amounts.

Healthy living is important for everyone at all life stages, from pregnancy and birth, childhood and teenage years, into adulthood and old age.

Healthy living: What’s in it for me?

The way we live has a major effect on our health and wellbeing. 

Healthy living helps our mind and body to function as well as possible in everyday life so that we can live, learn, work, and play as well as we can.

Even if it’s not the highest priority or when times seem really tough, being healthy can help to get us through.

Healthy living also helps lower your chance of getting diseases like high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes (type 2) and some cancers.

Your Guide to a Healthier Today

Did you get Your Guide to a Healthier Today from the Sunday Mail? Great! Pretty soon you'll be into some delicious healthy foods and getting our there being active.

If you missed out, it's not too late! You can either order a copy by filling out the order form (DOC 960KB) or download the guide (PDF 2516KB). 

But it's more than just about reading the guide; you can get involved and keep up with everything happening on our Facebook page. There are daily updates and tips, plus heaps of prizes to keep you going. You can share your healthier today with everyone.

To help you on your way to a healthier today, we have lined up some great prizes. From Sunday 29 April until Sunday 12 May, simply “like” SA Health on Facebook and fill out the entry form on the competition tab and you go in the draw to win range of great prizes, like fruit and vegies for a year, a bike, a pair of walking shoes, a nutrition session plus more! Prizes will be announced each week day over the competition period. Terms and conditions apply. See the competition page for more details.

Interested in some of the recipes in the booklet? You can order a FREE Healthy Food Fast cookbook (DOC 960KB).