Depending on your income, you can get free or low-cost health care services. Medi-Cal provides free or low-cost health care for eligible California residents. If you are not currently receiving Medi-Cal and are a young adult between 19 to 26 years old, we encourage you to apply. Learn more about eligibility and how to apply.
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Founded in 1970, Family Health Centers of San Diego is dedicated to providing caring, affordable, high-quality health care and supportive services to everyone, with a special commitment to uninsured, low-income and medically underserved persons.
How to Eat Healthy with MyPlate
MyPlate has many resources to help everyone establish a healthier eating routine now and in the future. This website is a place to look at one’s current eating routine and personalize a plan that’s just right based on one’s age, height, weight, and physical activity level. One can also tailor a nutrition plan based on a specific life stage. Feeling inspired to cook healthier? There is also a MyPlate Kitchen with recipes and cooking videos.
This website features more than 100 recipes created for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.
Along with heart-healthy recipes from cuisines around the world, there’s plenty of information about food shopping, cooking, and eating
healthfully for the entire family. Staying healthy can be challenging, but lifestyle changes like moving to heart-healthy eating can help lower your
risk for heart disease and other conditions.
TeensHealth is a website for teens to learn about hundreds of physical, emotional, and behavioral topics. The information on this website is
doctor-reviewed to ensure the information is accurate and up to date. TeensHealth has many easy-to-follow articles, slideshows, videos, and
health tools to help teens learn, grow and be their best. There is also a separate section for parents and kids, created with their questions in mind.
Take Charge of Your Health: A Guide for Teenagers from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is one
of the best places to start making healthy decisions about your nutrition, activity, and sleep routine. This website will help you learn how your
body works (how your body uses the food and drinks you consume and how being active may help your body “burn” calories), how to choose
healthy foods and drinks, how to get moving and stay active, how getting enough sleep is important to staying healthy, how to ease into healthy
habits and keep them up and how to plan healthy meals and physical activities that fit your lifestyle.