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100 Smart Choices — Prevention and Healthy Living Guide

Unhealthy lifestyles are the primary contributors to the six leading causes of death in the U.S., which collectively account for more than 70 percent of all deaths. 100 Smart Choices is a motivating prevention and healthy living guide that helps readers get healthy and stay healthy.

Unhealthy lifestyles are the primary contributors to the six leading causes of death in the U.S.—heart disease, cancer, stroke, respiratory diseases, accidents and diabetes—which collectively account for more than 70 percent of all deaths.1 100 Smart Choices is a motivating prevention and healthy living guide that helps readers get healthy and stay healthy. It provides simple ideas they can incorporate into their everyday routines to improve overall health and increase quality of life. Readers will also learn to choose the care that is appropriate and effective for their situations, and cost-effective for both organizations and consumers.

1. Health Promotion Advocates, Background for the Health Promotion FIRST (Funding Integrated Research, Synthesis and Training) Act and the Healthy Workforce Act. http://www.healthpromotionadvocates.org/resources/presentation.html. Accessed July 2, 2008.