Recommended Web Sites

Get Active - Great tips from the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

Popular New Year's Resolutions - FirstGov lists the most popular resolutions and links to sites that can help you keep them.

Rules for Healthy Eating - The National Center for Farmworker Health offers this information.

Aim for a Healthy Weight - The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute has prepared these fact sheets on assessing your health risk and controlling your weight.

Choosing a Safe and Successful Weight Loss Program - Almost any of the commercial weight-loss programs can work, but only if they motivate you sufficiently to decrease the amount of calories you eat or increase the amount of calories you burn each day (or both). What elements of a weight-loss program should an intelligent consumer look for in judging its potential for safe and successful weight loss? Check this site to find out.

Deciphering Media Stories on Diet: Nutrition in the News - The Harvard School of Public Health offers this information.

Energy Saver: Tips on Saving Energy and Money at Home - This information shows you how easy it is to reduce your home energy use. It is a guide to easy, practical solutions for saving energy throughout your home, from the insulating system that surrounds it to the appliances and lights inside.

Exercising for a Healthy Life -This links to a great tutorial from the Patient Education Institute.

Fitness for Less: 4 Low-Cost Ways to Shape Up and
Fitness Programs: 10 Tips for Staying Motivated and
Fitting in Fitness: Finding Time for Physical Activity - The Mayo Clinic offers this advice.

Freedom from Smoking Online - The American Lung Association's popular smoking cessation program is now online!

Getting Started with an Exercise Program and Getting Started with Strength Training - These pages, from Georgia State University answer all the questions and provide great inspiration for starting an exercise or strength training program.

How Can I Keep Track of Exercise and Eating? - Find out how, from the American Heart Association.

How To Make a New Year's Resolution - Learn how to make practical ones here.

Independence from Smoking - WomensHealth.gov offers this information (and the tips are good for men too!)

Interactive Menu Planner - This planner comes from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Just Enough for You: About Food Portions - Learn more from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Making Your Resolutions Work All Year Long - The folks at Exercise at About.com have created this list of good tips for keeping to an exercise or fitness program.

MyPyramid.gov: Steps to a Healthier You - Great nutrition information, from the Dept. of Agriculture.

New Year's Resolution Guide - The University of Maryland Medical Center offers great advice on making and keeping health resolutions.

New Year's Resolutions for Food Safety - These are great tips we should all be following from the Food Safety and Inspection Service.

New Year's Resolutions - Wikipedia talks about how the custom of making resolutions at the beginning of the New Year got started.

New Year's Resolutions Results - SelfHelp magazine offers these tips.

Physical Activity for Everyone - Learn more from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

QuitNet - Want to quit smoking? Start here!

Shopping List: Basic Ingredients for a Healthy Kitchen - The American Cancer Society offers this information for cancer patients, and everyone else.

Staying at a Healthy Weight - KidsHealth has prepared this information specifically for overweight teens.

Twenty-one Healthy New Year's Resolutions for Kids - The American Academy of Pediatrics has developed these resolutions.

Weight Loss for Life - This detailed information on losing weight is courtesy of the Weight Control Information Network (see their other great pages on the same site).

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December 2009