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These are just a few tips that can help you get healthier. Sign up for the e-mail newsletter and you'll get new tips throughout the year!

1 Experts recommend that teens get at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity every day. Why? Because exercise serves several purposes: It makes your heart and lungs strong, it increases your strength and endurance, and it helps you maintain a healthy weight. In fact, you can actually change your physique through exercise by building or defining certain muscle groups over time. Exercise benefits your body not just in your teen years, but helps you stay healthy throughout adulthood, too.

2 Go dancing - it can burn more than 300 calories an hour!

3 Exercise, including walking at least 30 minutes a day, decreases the risk of heart attacks, stroke, hypertension, some cancers, osteoporosis, depression and obesity.

4 Start your day with breakfast. Breakfast fills your "empty tank" to get you going after a long night without food. And it can help you do better in school. Easy to prepare breakfasts include cold cereal with fruit and low-fat milk, whole-wheat toast with peanut butter, yogurt with fruit, whole-grain waffles or even last night's pizza!

5 Snack smart. Snacks are a great way to refuel. Choose snacks from different food groups - a glass of low-fat milk and a few graham crackers, an apple or celery sticks with peanut butter and raisins, or some dry cereal. If you eat smart at other meals, cookies, chips and candy are OK for occasional snacking.