Health and Fitness Guide for Students

How much time do you spend playing video games? Do you like to chat with friends on social media often? These activities can be fun, but it’s also important to get up, get moving, and take care of your body if you want to stay healthy. When you don’t take care of your health, you end up getting sick more often and feeling more tired, which isn’t any fun. But all it takes to keep this from happening is to begin making healthier choices about what you eat and what you do at school and outside of the classroom. With a little effort, you’ll feel better and even live longer.

General Health

What Sleep Is and Why Kids Need it: You might want to stay up all night, but sleep is really important for your health.
Under the Microscope: Acne: Puberty brings acne for many, and you can learn about what’s going on and what you can do about it here.
Inside a Girl’s Body: Learn about how the systems of a girl’s body work and how you can take care of your body and keep it healthy
My Family Health Tree: Some health problems can be inherited from your parents. Take a look at the health issues in your family to consider your risks.
Food and Fun With Diabetes: If you have childhood diabetes, you are not alone. All kids need to take care of themselves, but for you, it is critical that you manage your condition well. Find out how you can have fun with others while keeping your diabetes in check with these tips.
Learn to Be Healthy: If you like games, check out these activities and tools that you can use so you can be an able-bodied tween or teen.

Nutrition

Your Brain Needs Real Food: While junk food may be delicious, healthy foods can help you feel better, think better, and even live a longer life.
Building Your Best Bones Forever: It’s important to eat plenty of foods with calcium and vitamin D to keep your bones strong.
Vitamins and Minerals Tool: Find out what’s in your favorite foods or how you can get more of certain nutrients into your diet.
Five Tips to Kick Bad Eating Habits to the Curb: Follow this advice to improve your diet and take better care of your body.
Nutrition Café: Get information on eating right in a fun way with an educational game.
Variety in Your Diet: Eating a wide range of healthy foods is a good habit to get into.

Physical Activity

Fitness Challenge: How fast can you do all of these exercises?
Have Fun and Stay Fit: Exercise doesn’t have to be boring. Liven it up with these tips.
Indoor Winter Exercises: Discover the many different activities you can do while inside your home to promote a healthy body and active lifestyle.
We Can! Screen Time Chart (PDF): Fill out the chart to see how much time you and the rest of your family spend in front of a screen.
Get Active Each Day: Learn how much physical activity you should do each day and what the difference is between moderate and vigorous activities.

Dental Health

Healthy Habits for Your Teeth: Once your adult teeth come in, they’re all you have for the rest of your life, so it’s important to take good care of them.
Teeth and Teeth Care: Learn tips to help keep your teeth healthy and strong.
Seven Troublesome Ways Teens Destroy Their Teeth: Bad habits now can lead to serious problems down the road.
Why Do Kids Needs Braces?: Wonderpolis explains everything you need to know about braces and gives activities to help protect your smile.
Baby Teeth Deserve Care While They’re There: Baby teeth can sometimes stick around as long as your teen years, and it’s important to take good care of them so they don’t cause a chain reaction that hurts your adult teeth, too.

Staying Healthy at School

Five-Finger Alert: Play this game to learn about how you can prevent the flu.
Staying Healthy in School: This page is kid-friendly and provides tips for you and your parents to help you stay in good health while at school.
Hygiene and the Middle School Student: Here, you can read about three critical issues kids your age deal with and what you can do to practice good health habits as your body changes.