HEALTH
Last
Updated on 4/10/2005
If
you REALLY want to be Healthy, stop sitting at that computer and
START MOVING!
Department
of Motor Vehicles
- Driver's
Education
- Open Directory links, including a home study driver's ed
class for California students, as well as links to on-line car
registration renewal, driver's license registration renewal, and
driving manuals for California.
Highway
Safety - Crash test ratings
for all car models
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to top
Health
- CyberDiet
- Outstanding diet and nutrition information, including nutritional
profile, assessment tools, body mass index, hip-waist ratio, food
facts, recipes, and other tips for health living.
ACE
- From the
American Council on Fitness: Why you need to exercise and tips on
how to make your program effective.
- ADOL
- Adolescent Directory Online.
Breast
Cancer Info - Scroll
down the page and take the quiz to see how much you know about this
killer. Then check out the site for more information.
Cancertrials
- The National Cancer
Institute site designed to help people with cancer find information
about the latest treatment approaches for the disease and clinical
trials to study emerging treatments.
CyberHealth
- All sorts of links to information about your health; The Mayo
Clinic Health Oasis, Ask the Doctor, The Food and Drug Administration,
First Aid On-Line, alternative health, and so much more I couldn't
BEGIN to tell you. When you have a year to spare, check it out.
Down Syndrome
- Have down syndrome? Go to this site for links to health groups
and articles which will help you understand and communicate.
Drkoop.com
- Health information from the doctor who finally convinced us that
smoking would kill us, Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. surgeon general
in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Categories include news, family,
resources, wellness, community and conditions.
Global Reproduction Health Forum
- From the Harvard
School of Public Health, this site provides information about reproductive
health issues and rights. Health, reproduction, reproductive rights,
sexually transmitted diseases, family planning, abortion, gender,
biology, and technology. Site includes a special teenzone with information
on HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, rights, and
lifestyle--a huge section on adolescent issues.
HealthFinder
- Sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services, this is
a good starting point for health-related information available from
the government.
Health Teacher
- Health Teacher.com is a site where either teachers, students, or
other individuals can learn about consenquences of drugs, smoking,
and other harmful substances. They also have articles about various
health problems, risks, and emotional health problems. Plus, teachers
can use the material on this site to help teach their students.
Intelihealth
- This site is sponsored by Johns Hopkins University and Health System
and Aetna U.S. Healthcare. Access two million pages of updated health
news, medical literature, journals and research. Also an interactive
flu map, information on various medications, a Department of Agriculture
food label database, an "Ask the Doc" column and an online health
bookstore.
Just
One Night Based
on the PBS show about the tragic consequences of drunk driving. Site
includes transcripts from the show, educational resources and more.
Medline
- Information to help you research your health questions from the
National Libray of Medicine. Includes a collection of more than nine
million biomedical journal article abstracts plus dictionaries, directories,
databases, news and more.
M.A.D.D.
- (Mothers Against
Drunk Driving): Get the latest stats about teens and alcohol; check
out other current and related issues; find out what the group is doing;
become a member!
Nutrition
Analysis Tool
- On-line interactive tool that allows you to check a variety of foods
for 17 different nutrients lsu calories, fat, cholesterol, etc. From
the University of Illinois. http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~food-lab/nat/
Or try: Food
Finder
from the Minnesota Attorney General's Office Consumer Division. This
site allows you to determine the caloric, fatr, cholesterol and sodium
content of a variety of fast-food items from 15 restaurant chains.
Nutrition
Navigator
- This site is designed to help you sort through the large volume
of nutrition information on the Internet and sort out the good stuff
from the bad stuff. Sites are reviewed by Tufts University nutritionists.
You can search or browse from the site. It's worth checking out if
you want reliable information about the stuff you put in your body.
This is the site to use for Mrs. Scholton's health project. Click
on "General Nutrition." Then go to either CyberDiet or Meals
For You. NOTE: You'll find tons of holiday recipes here.
Physical
Education Digest
- Both teachers and students can benefit from this website, for it
portrays an infinite amount of information about sports, smoking,
the human body, and simple activities for teachers to abide by.
ShapeUp
America -
If you want to lose weight, look here for help. This site is specifically
devoted to weight management,with discussions of BMI (if you don't
know what it means, look here to find out), nutrition, diet, and fitness
plans.
Sports
Media - High school sports in Europe. Some
interesting information on coaching and physical fitness. Also PE
lesson plans. Check it out!
Teachers: If you want a web site added to this page, e-mail the
information here.
Please include your name and email address in your message. Also,
please let us know if you find any dead links on this page.
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