BRENDA'S THIS & THAT
HEALTH,
NUTRITION, FITNESS & BEAUTY
BRENDA'S THIS & THAT
HEALTH,
NUTRITION, FITNESS & BEAUTY
REMEMBER THAT THE WEBMASTERS OR ORGANIZATIONS SPONSORING EACH OF THESE SITES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN CONTENT. YOUR PERSONAL HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IS THE BEST SOURCE FOR MEDICAL INFORMATION.
For links specifically related to children’s health, pregnancy & parenting, go to my Children’s Health & Parenting Page. Links to sites with teen related issues are on this page as well as that one.
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AccentHealth
(tons of information related to health conditions, tests and
procedures, and medications)
Alateen
(support group for children who have family members who are
alcoholics)
Alice
(Topics include mental and emotional health, relationships and
sexuality, substance abuse.)
Alpha1
National Association (information on alpha1-antitrypsin
deficiency)
American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
American
College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
American
Medical Association (Access full text articles from medical
journals. The site also
lists approximately 650,000 physicians.)
Ask
the Dietitian (hundreds of nutrition related questions in over 80
categories with answers from
a registered dietitian)
Associated
Press Medical News (Pick a newspaper site to enter from in
your state, then click on “Science”)
Bodies
in Motion... Minds at Rest (health, diet, fitness, stress
management and teen issues)
Body
Quest (anatomy for kids 11 and up)
Calorie
Control Council (Use the calculators to track calories and fat in
your meals and get help in meal
planning, diet management and
excercise.)
CancerNet
(information for patients from the National Cancer Institute)
Centers
For Disease Control And Prevention
DiabetesNet
(This is a very comprehensive site with much helpful
information from Scott &
White Hospital. In addition to the medical
information, you will also find
a lot of recipes.)
Diabetic-Lifestyle
(health information, recipes, more)
Eating
Disorders Awareness and Prevention
Fitness
Link (good section on nutrition that includes guides to food
groups, vitamins and vegetarian
eating)
The
Frugal Face (make-up tips that are money-saving, fun and creative)
Green
Giant (health and fitness information, plus recipes and games related
to food and nutrition )
Healthfinder
(government health information site)
Healthsquare
(women’s health and prescription drug resource)
IntelliHealth
(This site has a huge amount of information on a large
variety of health subjects and
includes a search engine, medical dictionary, symptom scout, and a section
to ask health related questions.)
International
Foundation For Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
Internet
Mental Health (One of the oldest and largest mental health sites
on the Net. One of the
sections has self-diagnostic testing for common
disorders.)
Irritable
Bowel Syndrome Self Help Group
iVillage.com
(the number 1 women’s network online)
Marilu
Henner’s Official Website (health and nutrition, fitness and beauty)
Mediconsult
(news and information on a variety of medical subjects)
Medline
(a vast government operated database)
MEDLINEplus
Medical Encyclopedia (This is the best one I’ve seen
and I’ve found it to be very helpful, having hundreds
of topics with
detailed, understandable information).
Medscape
(a collection of full-text journal articles)
MSNBC
Health (Find excellent health related news. Get a “Virtual
Checkup” with a series of quizzes
to help you decide whether you’re at
risk for various disorders.
Includes an “Interactive Calculator”, which
gives you an estimate of how
long you will live given your current health,
habits and lifestyle.)
My
Beauty Center (very reasonable prices)
My
ParentTime’s FREE Fertility Charting Software
My
ParentTime’s Printable Basal Body Temperature Chart (Print out to
chart your body temperature to help locate fertile
days.)
My
ParenTime’s Printable Family Medical History Checklist
National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill
National
Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
National
Center for Infectious Diseases index (alphabetical index of infectious
diseases with articles related to those diseases)
National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information Prevline
(prevention info)
National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National
Neurofibromatosis Foundation
Neurofibromatosis
Resources (several links with helpful information)
Nutrition
on the Web For Teens
Obsessive-Compulsive
Foundation (They also have links to many other
mental health sites.)
OnHealth
(There are reference sections on children’s, men’s, and
women’s health, plus a search
function for medical conditions from A - Z.
You can also ask experts for
information or advice. Find local health
directories, recommendations
of doctors by site users, and live chat
shows with medical experts.)
Online
Psych (This comprehensive site offers detailed information
covering topics as varied as
aging, anxiety, children’s issues, depression,
domestic abuse, dreams, eating
disorders, grief, obsessive-compulsive
disorders, parenting and relationships.
An interactive section on mind
games has quick tests on everything
from personality to mental health.)
PDR
(Physician’s Desk Reference) consumer information
Pollen.com
(Use zip codes to get probable pollen counts for the next 4
days for the area you live in,
or in other cities, which can be useful if you
plan to travel. Plants
most likely to cause problems during this period
are also listed. You can
even have e-mail alerts sent to you that warn
when certain types of pollen
are expected to reach troublesome levels
locally.)
Prevention
Magazine’s Healthy Ideas (daily updates on diet news and
articles from medical experts,
plus meal planning and fitness info)
Psych
Central (Mental Health)
Quaker
Oats Live Well, Be Well Online Magazine (health and fitness information,
plus recipes)
RealAge
(This site has interesting health quizzes and caculators for
different types of health problems,
plus the “What’s Your Real Age?”
test.)
SafetyAlerts.com
(This site lists food and other product recalls, has safety information,
and many interesting health articles. You can sign up for their newsletters
and they will send a message each time there has been a recall of a product
that was distributed to your state, plus links to their newest health articles.)
Scorecard
(Enter your zip code to find out about health hazards in your
community.)
Self-Help
& Psychology Magazine
The
Something Fishy Website on Eating Disorders
Students
Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)
Teen
Scene from the FDA (The topics include acne, asthma, cosmetics,
eating disorders, nutrition,
menstrual cycles and mono.)
Teen
Workers Rights & Safety Information (The National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
provides this page which includes
information about laws concerning
what hours teens may work, what types of jobs they may hold and duties
their employers are not allowed to require them to perform, in addition
to safety info.)
Texas
Department of Health (large amount of health information, a medical
and research library, and info for adoptees and biological parents on how
to register with the state’s Central Adoption Agency)
Toll
Free Numbers for Health Information (Look for the link on this page.
There are many categories.)
Tufts
University Nutrition Navigator (This is a really great site for
tons of information about health, nutrition and food safety with lots of
links. There are separate areas for parents, women and children with
links to sites such as The Heart and Stroke Foundation, Centers For Disease
Control, National Osteoporosis Foundation, The North American Menopause
Society and The Vegetarian Resource Group. There are also links to
subjects such as “Kids Learn About Diabetes” and “The Healthy Refrigerator”.)
Whole
Family Center (Family issue sections include marriage, parenting
and teens.)
Women’s
Wire (news and issues of interest to women)
