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Healthy habits: Nutrition, physical activity, and time off
A healthy lifestyle includes a nourishing diet, physical activity, and sufficient sleep.
FIGURE 21
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND NUTRITION PATTERNS OF CALIFORNIA WOMEN88
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY (2019)
54%
29%
of women engaged in 150
minutes/week or more of
aerobic activity
of women engaged in
two days of musclestrengthening activity
Source: Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention,
Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance Survey
NUTRITIONAL HABITS (2021)
81%
67%
of women consumed
one or more servings
of vegetables/day
of women consumed
one or more servings
of fruit/day
The National Institutes of Health recommend that adults sleep seven to eight hours nightly for good
biological, cognitive, and emotional functioning. Yet, in 2020, 29% of women indicated they got
insufficient sleep.89 A similar percentage (27%) of children get inadequate sleep.
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