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General
My
Pyramid Tracker
"MyPyramid
Tracker is an online dietary and physical activity assessment tool that provides
information on your diet quality, physical activity status, related nutrition
messages, and links to nutrient and physical activity information." provided
by the United States Department of Agriculture..
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here for more]
Activity
Calorie Calculator
Quick
easy way to determine how many calories one burns. Simply enter your weight
and the amount of time you were engaged in an activity and the calculator will
furnish number of calories expended in a wide variety of activities.
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here for more]
Teens
Health
Variety
of health topics of interest to teens from anorexia to depression and much more.
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here for more]
Women's
Health Informaiton from the National Women's Health Resource Center
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
Data and statistices, health information,
and news are found here. A search engine will help one find a specific topic.
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here for more]
PubMed from
the National Library of Medicine.
Contains over 9 million references
on health related issues from medical journals.
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here for more]
Index
of Food and Nutrition Internet Resources
Many subject headings with topical links.
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here for more]
Cybertown
Campus: Health and Physical Education
Links to topics such as nutrition, sports, family
health, substance abuse and others.
[click
here for more]
Go
ask Alice
Confidential information about adolescent problems
including mental health and substance abuse.
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here for more]
Dr.
Koop.Com
Find resources on health issues such as AIDS, arthritis,heart
disease, cancer, anorexia and so on.
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here for more]
Healthfinder
A gateway consumer health and human services information
web site from the United States government.
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here for more]
Internet Mental
Health
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here for more]
Patient Information
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here for more]
American Lung
Association
[click
here for more]
Spineuniverse
[click
here for more]
Malehealth
[click
here for more]
National Osteoperosis
Foundation
[click
here for more]
ASHA: American
Social Health Association
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here for more]
All About Vision
[click
here for more]
American Dental
Assocation
[click
here for more]
American Heart
[click
here for more]
Hepatitis Central
[click
here for more]
Computer Related
Repetitive Strain Injury
[click
here for more]
AC: Arthritis
Central
[click
here for more]
Breast Cancer
[click
here for more]
WebMD Health
[click
here for more]
National Institute
Of Health
[click
here for more]
Mayo Clinic
[click
here for more]
American Medical
Association
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here for more]
Medline Plus
Health Information
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here for more]
MedScape
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here for more]
HealthWeb
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Facts
about Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
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here for more]
Nutrition
Micronutrients
[click
here for more]
CNN
Food Central- Vitamin Guide
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here for more]
Vitamins
Infoplease
offers information on vitamins in general and then specific .
[click
here for more]
Vitamins
About.com
lists various vitamins and notes information about each.
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here for more]
Ms. Taylor's Food Pyramid Research
My
Pyramid Tracker
"MyPyramid
Tracker is an online dietary and physical activity assessment tool that provides
information on your diet quality, physical activity status, related nutrition
messages, and links to nutrient and physical activity information." provided
by the United States Department of Agriculture..
[click
here for more]
Nutrition Analysis
Tool 2.0
Use this interactive tool to analyze your diet
for nutrition.
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here for more]
Tufts University
Nutrition Navigator
This online guide is designed to "help you sort
through the large volume of nutrition information on the Internet and find accurate,
useful nutrition information you can trust.
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here for more]
Fast Food Facts
"Fast Food Facts is your source for the most
up-to-date nutritional information on your favorite fast food for dieting and
weight control; sugar levels for diabetics; carbs (carbohydrate) for low-carb
dieters; and health & nutrition class projects for students and teachers."
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here for more]
Nutrition Facts & Calorie Counter
"NutritionData (ND) provides a complete nutrient
analysis for any food or recipe, and helps you select foods that best match
your dietary needs. "
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here for more]
The
Fast Food Nutrition Fact Explorer
Choose
the restaurant you are most interested in and the database will sort out menu
items by fat content.
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here foxr more]
Fast Food Best Choices
This article details what menu choices are the
healthiest from various fast food restaurants.
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here for more]
Food Timeline
Covers history of food, recipes, nutrition, economics,
inventions and much more.
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here for more]
The
CASA National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse II: Teens and
Their Parents
The first national survey of the attitudes of teens and their parents towards
cigarettes, alcohol, inhalants, marijuana, LSD, cocaine, heroin and other illegal
drugs.
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here for more]
Facts on Drugs
Information
on alcohol, cocaine/crack, heroin, inhalants, marijuana, methamphetamine and
tobacco.
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more]
Do It Now Fast
Facts
Cocaine,
marijuana, alcohol, heroin, speed, downers, lsd, smoking, inhalants, steroids,
meth, smokeless tobacco, ectasy, jimsen weed, ritalin, Rohypnol, , Ketamine,
GHB, nicotine, and DXM are all covered in these electronic pamphlets.
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for more]
Medical Dictionary
Find
information on a variety of topics, including information on all kinds of drugs.
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for more]
MedLine Plus
Locate
information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
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here for more]
The National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
Research
& Statistics, Alcohol & Drug Facts, and lots more information is found here.
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Searchable
Online Archive of Recipes
Use this site to find recipes from other countries
by simply typing the country's name. Recipes of all kinds can be found here
as well.
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here for more]
Diana's
Desserts
Find great dessert recipes. If searching for International
recipes, just type in the county's name.
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here for more]
International Cuisine Recipes
A great site to find links to many international
recipes.
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here for more]
International
Recipes
Recipes from Africa, Asia, North America, Europe,
South America and the Carribean.
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here for more]
Recipes
International Recipes
Recipes from Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand
Europe, Middle East, North America, South America and Soul Food.
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here for more]
Better
Homes and Gardens Recipe Center
In the recipe section, enter up to 3 ingredients
of the food you have on hand and it will give you recipes.
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here for more]
Cooking
Light Online
Learn the essentials in the Food section from cooking
101 before you dive into more than 2,000 recipes here. Dieters and health-concious
eaters can find more tips in Healthy Living.
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here for more]
Food
Network's FoodTV.Com
The video demonstrations of basic and advanced
cooking skills are the biggest draw here, but you'll also find cookbook reviews,
a food encyclopedia, world cuisine and wine articles.
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here for more]
YourProm.Com
After you've nabbed your dream date, get into prep
mode at this first-rate site. There's a good prom scene section, but the draws
here are the extensive fashion and beauty areas.
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here for more]
Fashion-Era
Fashion-era contains 695 content rich, illustrated pages
of Fashion History, Costume History, Clothing, Fashions and Social History.
Liana's
Paper Doll Boutique
Find a paper dolls, then select the clothing you'd
like to use from Formals, Work, Casual, Fantasy, Historical and more.
History
of Fashion: 1900-1910
Summary
of the fashions of the Edwardian Era, which occured after Queen Victoria's death.
Fashion
in the Edwardian Era, 1901-1919
Primarily
text outlining the changes in fashion after the death of Queen Victoria.
1940s
Fashion History
1940s
Utility Clothing to New Look
Dave
Arns’ Guide to 1940s Dance Fashion
Illustrates
the type of clothing worn for dances such as the Lindy Hop and Latin dances.
20th
Century Fashion History: 1950s
Totally
70's
Fashions, hairstyles, TV shows, music, cars, radio and more from the 1970s.
The
1970s and Disco Fashion History
Fashion
History.
JCPenney
Catalog: Fall-Winter 1980
Photos
of the actual fashions sold by jCPenney
Fashion
after 1980
Fashion
influences, designers, accessories and more from power dressing to the romantics.
Fashion
in the 1980s--Fashion Central
A-Z
guide to fashion in the 1980s
PriceGrabber
Locate the lowest-priced product you need by inputting
your preferences.
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here for more]
MySimon
Compare
products and prices from around the web.
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here for more]
Dealtime
Compare
products prices and stores.
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here for more]
PriceWatch
Locate
price comparisons for technology products..
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here for more]
Amazing-Bargains
Check out the discount and coupon codes here to
save money.
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here for more]
Consumer
Reports
To receive information on the ratings and evaluation
of products, you must pay a subscription, but there is plenty of interesting
information to be found here.
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here for more]
Smoking and Tobacco Use
Encyclopedia
of Drugs and Addictive Substances
PVHS High online eBook See library staff for username and
password required for off campus use.
Grolier
Online Encyclopedias
Medline
A database
of health related information maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine
and the National Institutes of Health.
American
Cancer Society
American Lung Association
National Cancer Institute
Smoking
and Tobacco Use -- CDC--Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--
Find
here: Smoking
and Tobacco Use, including Factsheets for Cigars,
Smokeless
Tobacco (Chewing Tobacco), and Tobacco
Industry Marketing.
Drugs and Addictive Substances
Encyclopedia
of Drugs and Addictive Substances
PVHS High online eBook See library staff for username and
password required for off campus use.
Medline
A database
of health related information maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine
and the National Institutes of Health.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Drug Facts -- Office of National Drug Control Policy
Health
& PE Lesson Plans
Dozens of lesson plans are grade specific and include
topics such as nutrition, hygiene, fitness and safety.
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here for more]
Updated 9/29/2008