Topic 1.7 The Stairway to Lifetime Fitness

The level of independence is the pinnacle of the Stairway to Lifetime Fitness. Very few Americans engage in regular physical activity throughout their life span. Along with your self-assessment and self-planning skills you may need some resources to help you make sense of the information on health, fitness, and wellness that is often misrepresented by the media. The following is a list of resources that will help you become a knowledgeable consumer of information and products on health, fitness, and wellness.

• The American Heart Association’s Healthy Lifestyle page offers quality information on diet and physical activity.
• The Harvard Medical School’s consumer health information site, InteliHealth, addresses a wide range of healthy lifestyle issues.
• Center for Science in the Public Interest is a great resource for getting the straight facts on nutrition.
• Quackwatch is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies.