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One Small Change - For the Health of It

Why Make One Small Change?

Believe it or not, making just one small change is a simple and effective way to improve personal health.

Small changes like choosing healthier options at the grocery store, recycling items like plastic bottles, adding exercise, riding a bike to work, always wearing a helmet, using public transportation when possible, flossing teeth regularly and quitting smoking make a difference – especially when one small change leads to another.

Without the effort required for a massive lifestyle overhaul, small changes can build to big benefits for both personal and community health.

Improving your health does not have to turn your life upside down.

The benefit of the One Small Change campaign is that making a small and achievable change helps you to see positive impacts on personal health. With one successful change comes the confidence to continue on a healthier path.

Start with something simple.

Take the stairs instead of the elevator, make it a habit to always wear your seatbelt or trade out your old light bulbs for new energy efficient ones. By slowly adopting simple and small behavior changes, it not only adds quality to life, but quantity as well.

The incremental changes made each day can have positive long-term health benefits by decreasing illness, the risk of chronic disease and even extend life expectancy.

The One Small Change – For the Health of It initiative serves as a guide to help individuals, families, businesses and communities create healthier and happier lives.

How can one small environmental change improve my health?

Making positive changes in your environmental impact also has the power to positively affect your personal health. Riding a bike to work has obvious benefits of increased exercise, but also reduces the amount of harmful emissions in the air you breathe.

Buying locally made goods and services has a similar impact on emissions. Switching out light bulbs for more energy efficient ones helps reduce your environmental impact and energy bills.

Make one small change to help protect the environment and both you and your community benefit.