Health and Wellness
IMPORTANT! These sites are for informational purposes only and are not a substitute for professional medical or health advice, examination, diagnosis, or treatment.
Daily Water App - IOS app that counts how many glasses of water you drink and reminds you when you need to drink more.
Drugs.com - This site allows you access to the latest in prescription medicine. "Drugs.com is the most popular, comprehensive and up-to-date source of drug information online. Providing free, peer-reviewed, accurate and independent data on more than 24,000 prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines & natural products." [Source]
Eat This Much - This site takes the hassle of dieting out of it. You get an automatic meal plan, grocery lists, and everything automatically.
Empower you with automatic control over your diet. Easily modify parameters such as total calories, macro nutrient ranges, grams of protein, and meal size.
Empower you with automatic control over your diet. Easily modify parameters such as total calories, macro nutrient ranges, grams of protein, and meal size.
Take the anxiety out of picking what to eat. Make the important decisions ahead of time and on your own schedule, then there’s nothing to worry about when it’s time to eat.
Follow any eating style or create your own. You can customize popular eating styles like vegan and paleo to match your needs and preferences. Reduce wasted food. Planning ahead means less produce going bad in the fridge, and fewer leftovers forgotten or tossed into the trash. |
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Eating Well - Discover eating well - with healthy recipes, healthy eating, healthy cooking, healthy diet recipes, weight loss recipes, and healthy menus.
Fitness Blender - Fitness Blender offers workout videos for every fitness level for absolutely free.
Fitness Class - This app gives you a chance to sign up for their ClassPass, which gives you access to hundreds of workouts. They give you around 9 free classes, but in order to take full-advantage of this app it is recommended that you sign up and pay for their ClassPass.
HealthCentral - Provides a collection of Websites providing trusted medical information from doctors, researchers, and expert patients, as well as news, information, video and other multi-media content on health related subjects.
Healthfinder.gov - Welcome to healthfinder.gov, a government Web site where you will find information and tools to help you and those you care about stay healthy. When making decisions about your health, it’s important to know where to go to get the latest, most reliable information. Healthfinder.gov has resources on a wide range of health topics selected from approximately 1,400 government and non-profit organizations to bring you the best, most reliable health information on the Internet.
Health Grades - Health Grades (formally known as Better Medicine) is one of the world’s leading providers of online medical health information. The site is an independent, objective source of factual, mainstream health information for both consumers and health professionals.
Health Line - The body maps this site gives you access to allows you to break down the human body virtually.
The Human Body by Tinybop - Explore a working model of the body. Every part is interactive: the heart beats, guts gurgle, lungs breathe, the skin feels, and eyes see. Designed for kids to discover what we’re made of and how we work.
“The sound effects are both hilarious and compelling—the pulsing swoosh of the heart pumping is soothing, but the gassy squeaks coming from the digestive system are enough to send my kids into a fit of giggles.” — COOL MOM TECH “What it all amounts to is a circuitous, engrossing tour through the human body—one that’s completely self-guided and unique to every user.” — WIRED |
Lose It! - Lose It! helps you set a daily calorie budget, track your food and exercise, and stay motivated to make smarter choices and achieve your goal. Lose It! is based on the proven principles of calorie tracking and peer support for healthy, sustainable weight loss. We seamlessly connect you to the people, devices, and food information you need to achieve your weight loss goals. We customize a weight loss plan that fits your life. Set your goals and achieve them on your terms.
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MapMyFitness - MapMyFitness provides advanced fitness tracking technology, a workout database, nutritional data, calorie calculators, and more than 160 million of the best running, cycling, and walking routes around the world.
Mayo Clinic - With over 3,000 physicians, scientists, and researchers, the Mayo Clinic offers their expertise to empower you. You can check out blogs about living a healthy lifestyle for people of any age. Mayo Clinic has a symptom checker that helps you input the symptoms you're having to get a better handle on what could be going on in your body. You can check out the Mayo Clinics lists of diseases and conditions, drugs and supplements, and tests and procedures to stay more informed for your health and the health of others.
MLS Top Health Websites: The Consumer and Patient Health Information Section (CAPHIS) of MLA evaluates websites based on the following criteria: credibility, sponsorship/authorship, content, audience, currency, disclosure, purpose, links, design, interactivity, and disclaimers.
MindBodyGreen - This blog site offers the latest in food, exercise, and health. MindBodyGreen offers classes in yoga, relationships, personal growth, spirituality, etc. you can take right from your own home. For the price or cheaper of those in a big chain fitness center. This health site gives advice and help in 5 areas; eat, love, live, breathe, and love. You can get it all in this site.
MyFitnessPal - This site is great for logging what you eat, when you exercise, and when you're hydrating. This site also has a great companion app that is free and available on most tablets and phones. With the convenience of taking the app everywhere you go you can weigh your eating choices before you eat them by seeing how many calories they are and where they puts you for the day. Medical studies show that keeping a food journal DOUBLES your weight loss! So MyFitnessPal gives you a free community to join to start tracking your food and lose the weight.
MyPlate by LiveStrong - This is another great weight loss food tracker. MyPlate is not just tracking calories - it is getting smart about your diet and nutrition. Want to know exactly how much sodium you consumed today? Cholesterol? Sugar? Calcium? MyPlate's daily nutrition charts and graphs
give you everything you need to know.
Everything You Need to Lose Weight in One Place.
give you everything you need to know.
Everything You Need to Lose Weight in One Place.
- MyPlate Calorie Tracker with Simple One-Click Tracking
- Stronger, Workout Program with Celebrity Trainer Nicky Holender
- Daily Motivations and Tips
- Personalized Meal Plans from Nutritionist Keri Glassman
- Daily Nutrition Charts, Graphs and Goals
- Great Community Support
- Much, Much More!
Fitness Apps (like MyPlate, MyFitnessPal, or Lose It!):
- Cron-O-Meter - This app/site helps you track your calories, food intake, exercise etc.
- Dutrition - If you want the best for your body, you need to pay attention to the details. Get the proper amount of fiber, protein, carbs and fat from your diet by only 5 minutes of planning with Dutrition.
- FatSecret - This totally free app has helped 35 million people lose weight! Start your weight loss journey today and get access to the world's highest quality food and nutrition database.
- Lifesum - Lifesum helps you form healthy habits so you can live a healthy lifestyle. Track food and exercise; get tips, inspiration, and feedback; and become a healthier, happier, you.
- Sparkpeople - This app/site is a fast and easy to use calorie counter with over 2 million foods in our database. It also has personalized fitness programs that work with most wearable fitness trackers.
NIH - National Institutes of Health - The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency—making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
Smart Plate - This technology enhanced plate gives the user the opportunity to analyze exactly what's on their plate and what should and shouldn't be on there. This new technology is fairly recent and has been invented by a family hoping to help other families stay healthy or get healthier. With the ability to sync your smart plate onto your mobile device, people can keep track of what they ate and when to help improve their eating habits.
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YAHOO! Beauty - If you measure by internet traffic to a site, YAHOO! Health ranks #1 with 21.5 million visitors each month. As with all sites on this page, Yahoo! Health is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or health advice, examination, diagnosis, or treatment.
WebMD - WebMD is a wonderful site where you can track your way to weight loss success, manage your family's vaccinations, join conversations, choose from 50+ health and wellness newsletters, and access the WebMD magazine. You can look up drug information, an A-Z index of health related topics, information about living healthy, and much more.
Zombies, Run! - This app is available on Iphone or android devices and is a new and fun way to get running. You can run, jog, walk anywhere in the world and be a hero in another. This app allows you to run away from zombies, defend your home, gather supplies, and have fun while running.
This app mixes two of the biggest fads out there, zombies and getting healthy. With this app you can monitor your run while also participating in a zombie apocalypse. |
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Page last updated June 13, 2018