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| The City of Santa Monica
promotes active lifestyles by focusing on programs that encourage
walking, biking, and the use of other resources to create a healthy life.
The Library supports active lifestyles by providing information and
materials that assist people in achieving their health and fitness goals. |
Consumer Health Complete
Library online database. Locate
articles using Subject and Keyword searches for "Walking, "Exercise,"
or "Aerobics" and find evaluations of equipment by searching topics like
"Walking Shoes" or "Exercise Equipment." Of special interest are the
Fact Sheets & Pamphlets on a variety of healthy lifestyle topics. |
Santa Monica
Community & Cultural Services Programs
Get fit and stay active by
taking advantage of the many community programs offered. For all ages,
these programs feature sports, dancing, exercise, and specialty programs.
No matter your age or physical condition you'll find a program to help you
get healthy and stay healthy. |
Santa Monica Bikeways
Map
The Bicycle Master Plan provides a wide variety programs for
commuter and recreational bicyclists in Santa Monica by creating a network
of local and regional bikeways. The City provides a continuous and
coordinated network of bikeways to provide access to businesses, schools,
parks, beaches, and points outside of the City. Additional information is
available on the City Hall
On Call Website under the heading
Parks &
Recreation Bike Trails.
If you prefer skating, check out the possibilities on
Santa Monica Beach.
And don't forget that there are plenty places for kids to play and well as
jogging and volleyball on the beach.
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Encourage young people to develop healthy
lifestyles using City programs. PAL,
the Police Activity League, offers free educational, cultural, and athletic
activities for boys and girls ages six to seventeen who live or go to school
in Santa Monica.
Playground Partnership, a collaborative effort of Santa Monica and the
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, allows school-aged youth, their
friends and families unsupervised use of school playgrounds for recreation
during non-school and non-CREST hours. Playgrounds offer fields, equipment,
exercise paths, basketball courts, handball courts and restrooms.
CREST, Child Care,
Recreation, Enrichment and Sports, is a before and after school program for
children in kindergarten through 5th grade that provides a rich array of
flexible program options for students and families.
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| The National Institutes for Health provide
excellent information to help you achieve a healthy lifestyle.
Topics like Exercise for
Children, Exercise for
Seniors, and Exercise
& Physical Fitness have advice and information for all ages and levels.
In addition, these NIH Websites provide links to resources and other related
Websites of interest to anyone who is concerned about health. |
Santa Monica's
Environmental Programs Division provides a list of Santa Monica parks,
ideal places for recreation. The list also names national and state
parks in this area. Our health and fitness is closely related to our
environment so visit Environmental Programs
Environmental Education page for ways to incorporate environmental study
into your health and fitness regimen. |
Santa Monica Farmers
Market provides customers year-round with a selection of fresh, seasonal
produce to encourage healthy eating choices. For additional
information about healthy eating trythe
HealthyEating Website.
It provided food guides, meal planning, nutrition guidelines, eating advice
from kids to seniors, and much more.
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Use the
Library online catalog,
iBistro, to locate additional information about healthy lifestyles.
Subject searches such as "
Women Nutrition," "
Men Nutrition," "
Children Nutrition," "
Stretching Exercises," or "
Fitness Walking" will retrieve information on
that subject. The Library also has a wide selection of health and
fitness magazines. Use subject searches such as "
Fitness Periodicals,"
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Physical Fitness for Women," or "
Health Periodicals" to locate the titles. |
Active Living By Design
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
created this site “to increase physical activity through community design,
public policies and communications strategies.” On the site’s homepage,
visitors can browse through sections that include information on “Active
Living Essentials”, “Active Living Programs”, and “Active Living Resources”.
A great place to find links between physical activity, urban design, and
health. |
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This page was last modified on
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