Class Weblinks

READ FIRST!

• Health & Medical Web Search Guide (Helpful Guidelines for Web Research)

Assignment "On-Line" Quizzes:

• Portion Distortion Quiz (Week #4)

Children:

• BAM.Gov (CDC's health website for youth 9-13)

• Powerful Girls. Powerful Bones. (Centers for Disease Control)

• VerbNow.Com (VERB-It's What You Do. Physical Activity Site)

Eating Disorders:

• National Eating Disorders Association

Ethnic Health:

• Heart Healthy Home Cooking for African-Americans (National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute)

• Heart Health Recipes for Latinos (National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute)

• HispanicHealth.Org (National Alliance for Hispanic Health)

• Latino 5-A-Day Program (CA Dept. of Health Services)

  • 5-A-Day Program (English Homepage)

  • Spanish Language Nutrition Information

• Nutrition Information in 37 Languages (Georgia State University)

Exercise Equipment:

• Basic Functional Training Equipment for Cheap! (Stability Balls, Tubing, Medicine Balls)

• Pedometers (New-Lifestyles.Com  Get your 10,000 steps a day!)

Fitness & Sports Medicine:

• Exercise Demo Animations (HealthAtoZ.Com)

• Fitness Equipment Instruction Charts (SPRI Products)

• Fitness Equipment Instruction Sheets (PerformBetter.Com)

• The Best & Worst Abdominal Exercises (HealthAtoZ.Com)

• ACSM Current Comments on Health/Fitness/Sport topics such as: strength training for seniors and children, steroid abuse, female athlete eating disorders, creatine supplements, etc.  These are concise and easy to understand 1-2 page handouts that summarize each topic.

General Health & Medical:

• Centers for Disease Control

• DrKoop.Com (by Former US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop)

• HealthAtoZ.Com

• Health Calculators (Free download for Target HR, waist-to-hip, BMI, & Target Weight)

• HealthierUS.Gov (New U.S. Health Initiative!)

• RealAge.Com 

• WebMD.Com

Handout Samples: (These are great examples of clarity, white space, easy to read, etc.)

• Communication Tips for Positive Public Relations (JohnLotze.Org)

• Byte Back! A Guide to Understanding Computer Files (JohnLotze.Org)

• Avoid the Graphic Traffic Jam: A Guide to Computer Graphic Files (JohnLotze.Org)

Mind/Body Health & Somatics: "Knowing Through Wholistic Experience"

• Educational Yoga for Children (USYoga.Org)

• Neuromuscular Integrative Action Program (NIA) "Through movement we find health"

  • House of Yoga, Atascadero (Central Coast CA)

• What is Yoga? (WholisticFitness.Com--click "Crash Course" link)

Nutrition:

• FightBac.Org (USDA/FDA Food Safety Education)

• Heart Healthy Home Cooking for African-Americans (National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute)

• Heart Health Recipes for Latinos (National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute)

• HispanicHealth.Org (National Alliance for Hispanic Health)

• Latino 5-A-Day Program (CA Dept. of Health Services)

  • 5-A-Day Program (English Homepage)

  • Spanish Language Nutrition Information

• Nutrition Fact Sheets (EatRight.Org)

• Nutrition Information in 37 Languages (Georgia State University)

On-Line Health Newsletters & Updates: (Highly recommended to keep up on Today's News!) NEW!

• RealAge.Com "Tip of the Day" (daily & very short factoids on health topics--easy to quickly read and interesting)

• ACSM "Fit Society" Newsletters (Quarterly PDFs each with a specific theme)

• HeartCenterOnLine.Com Newsletter (bulleted list of weekly health topics with links to longer articles)

Women:

• 4 Women.Gov (National Women's Health Information Center) 

 All handouts are in a PDF format.  Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to view (PDF) Files.

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