Healthy Steps

A Simple Program for Healthier Living ®

Healthy Steps is a program and workbook designed by National Health Ministries to provide information about healthy living. Healthy Steps can assist you in deciding upon lifestyle practices you might change or show you new practices you might wish to adopt and help you create an action plan to achieve your goals.

Lifestyle practices play a major role in the prevention or management of many of the health problems people experience. Lifestyle practices affect cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, lung cancer, cirrhosis of the liver and high levels of blood cholesterol. With changes in activity levels, eating habits and stress levels, a person can greatly reduce her/his risk of developing certain health problems and increase her/his quality of life.

• Section 1 includes an opportunity to record your results from the Health Ministries' Health Risk Assessment (or any other HRA), recommendations for lifestyle practices that you want to adopt, and steps in developing an action plan.
• Sections 2-4 cover the major lifestyle issues the majority of Presbyterians experience (this is based on health risk assessments conducted over the last two years) and are common to the majority of disease processes, physical activity, nutrition, and stress management. These sections cover an extensive process of evaluating one's behavior in order to change lifestyle practices, and provide additional helpful resources. A list of appendices refers to each respective topic.
• Section 5 covers smoking cessation.
• Section 6 contains information on diabetes and a chart of medical tests.
• Section 7 contains appendices with detailed information on activity/exercise, nutrition and seat belt use information.

This is your health workbook developed as a personal resource and record. Feel free to mark in it and use it over again as you continue to make changes in your lifestyle practices.

Download the program

- Files marked with this icon can be downloaded in printable Adobe Acrobat format. This file requires the free Acrobat Reader. For best results, right-click the link (or click and hold for Macintosh), select " save target as" and save the document to your desktop for viewing and printing.