Physical Activity
Walk your way to better health.
A more active lifestyle helps prevent chronic disease, extend your life, and even lowers your risk of dementia. Step out for a walk – outdoors or indoors – and find out how easy it is to get active. Half an hour of brisk walking twice a day is enough to start healthy changes in your life — for free.
- Get started walking
Tips for getting started, success stories, and a free progress tracker from Let's Go Walkin' Mississippi
Move Your Way
What works? How much do you need? Find out how to get moving at home, at work, indoors or out, a lot or a little, It all adds up!
More steps you can take today:
- Get Started Getting Active
Tips and plans to get you from the couch to the pavement
Making walking to school a safe and healthy alternative to driving - Move to Learn
A state initiative to improve academic performance by increasing physical activity
More steps to better health:
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Links referenced |
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| Get started walking | http://www.letsgowalkinms.com/getting-started/ | |
| Get Started Getting Active | http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/PhysicalActivity/GettingActive/Getting-Active_UCM_460868_SubHomePage.jsp | |
| Move to Learn | http://www.movetolearnms.org/ | |
| Fighting obesity | http://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/index.cfm/43,0,289,html | |
| Nutrition guides | http://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/index.cfm/43,0,213,html | |
| Million Hearts initiative | http://millionhearts.hhs.gov/ | |
Find this page at http://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/index.cfm/index.cfm