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ACTIVITIES AND PARTICIPATION

CHAPTER 5 SELF-CARE d570 Looking after one's health Ensuring physical comfort, health and physical and mental well-being, such as by maintaining a balanced diet, and an appropriate level of physical activity, keeping warm or cool, avoiding harms to health, following safe sex practices, including using condoms, getting immunizations and regular physical examinations. inclusion ensuring one's physical comfort; managing diet and fitness; maintaining one's health

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Ensuring one's physical comfort	Managing diet and fitness	Maintaining one's health	Looking after one's health, other specified	Looking after one's health, unspecified
Caring for oneself by being aware that one needs to ensure, and ensuring, that one's body is in a comfortable position, that one is not feeling too hot or cold, and that one has adequate lighting.	Caring for oneself by being aware of the need and by selecting and consuming nutritious foods and maintaining physical fitness.	Caring for oneself by being aware of the need and doing what is required to look after one's health, both to respond to risks to health and to prevent ill-health, such as by seeking professional assistance; following medical and other health advice; and avoiding risks to health such as physical injury, communicable diseases, drug-taking and sexually transmitted diseases.

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