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general | physical activity | nutrition |
Monitoring Your Health and Preventing Disease |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Coordinating Center for Health Promotion
Find information, resources, and tools on a spectrum of topics such: eating nutritious foods, being physically active, and avoiding tobacco. |
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National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Locate information and resources about different types of complementary and alternative medicine, and their relationship to treatment of various conditions and diseases. |
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MedLine Plus: Health Topics: Health and Wellness
Search for information and resources about different health topics including: fitness and exercise, food and nutrition, safety, sexual health, and social and family issues. |
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Mayo Clinic: Healthy Living
Access multiple online health centers that provide information, tools, and resources designed to keep you healthy. Example topics include: children’s health, teen health, senior health, stress, pregnancy, men’s health, and healthy recipes. |
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FirstGov: Health, Nutrition and Safety
Find a collection of resources and information that address questions about health, safety and nutrition. |
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HealthierUS.gov
Discover helpful tips on how to start an exercise routine, ways to track of your activity over time, maintaining activity throughout life, and the best type of physical activity for your age group. |
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America On the Move
Find free web-based programs, tools, and resources that will help you stop weight gain and stay healthy by making small changes to your food and physical activity behaviors. |
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American Heart Association
Search for information on exercise and physical activity. Also learn about online tools and resources geared to making physical activity a daily part of your life. |
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MedLine Plus: Fitness and Exercise
Locate information and resources on topics related to fitness and exercise including exercise and physical fitness, exercise for children, exercise for seniors, and sports fitness. |
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Mayo Clinic: Fitness Center
Find fitness information and expert exercise advice on starting an exercise program, staying motivated, preventing injury, and more. |
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American Dietetic Association: Food and Nutrition Information
Find information, resources, and answers to questions related to food and nutrition. The site also has many helpful nutrition fact sheets and excerpts from the ADA Complete Food & Nutrition Guide. |
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American Diabetes Association
Locate information on nutrition for diabetics and non-diabetics alike. This site includes tips on reading food labels, recipes for healthy cooking, and suggestions for making healthy food choices. |
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HealthierUS.gov
Visit this site to learn about portion sizes, healthy food recommendations, ways to eat healthy and healthy cooking recipes. |
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Mayo Clinic: Food and Nutrition
Learn how to use a food guide pyramid to create a healthy diet. A unique feature of this site is that it covers use of food guide pyramids for different types of diets: Vegetarian, Asian, Healthy Weight, Mediterranean, and Latin American. |
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US Food and Drug Administration: Food Labeling and Nutrition
Find interactive tools and general information on nutrition. The US Food and Drug Administration developed this site to help consumers better understand food labels and nutrition information. |
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FirstGov: Nutrition
Find information on food and nutrition including: the food guide pyramid, food safety, government funded programs provide food assistance and other educational materials on food and nutrition. |
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| Monitoring Your Health and Preventing Disease |
HealthierUS.gov
Find information on recommended preventative screenings and tests, guides to healthy living, and the role family history plays in health. |
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Lab Tests Online
Locate information on a variety of clinical lab tests and learn about their relationship to diagnosis and treatment of conditions and diseases. |
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MayoClinic.com Health Tools
Search Mayo Clinic’s directory of online health tools that you can use to assess your health status. |
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Toxtown
Find information on environmental health and how everyday activities can impact your health. Learn about: everyday locations where you might find toxic chemicals; non-technical descriptions of chemicals; links to selected, authoritative chemical information on the Internet; how the environment can impact human health and Internet resources on environmental health topics. |
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New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene: Health Survey
Take this survey to get a basic evaluation of your health and find tips on how to become healthier. |
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MedLine Plus Health Check Tools
Discover a collection of quizzes, calculators, self-assessments, and decision guides to check your knowledge and health status. |
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