Healthy eating and active living in Boston

According to the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and obesity, affect 2/3 of all Americans. The Chronic Disease Prevention and Control division strives to help us live longer, healthier lives by providing programs and policies that promote better nutrition and physical activity. Healthy food choices and physical activity are two ways to improve our overall health and well-being. However, the environment where we are born, grow up, live, work, and age uniquely impacts our health. In Boston neighborhoods, health inequities influence who is most impacted by disease. Inequities in our environment include a lack of resources to promote health and an increased exposure to risk factors for disease. By making healthy choices and understanding how our environment affects where we live, learn, work, and play, we can improve how we feel today and our quality of life for tomorrow.