Health
Education Resources (K-12) (http://www.indiana.edu/~aphs/hlthk-12.html)
Adolescent
Health On-Line
(http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1947.html)
posted by the American Medical Association
Diseases
and Disorders (http://www.healthtouch.com/level1/hi_toc.htm)
explained by Health Touch On-Line
About.com
Family Medicine (http://familymedicine.about.com/)
Achoo.com
(http://www.achoo.com)
E
Medicine (http://www.emedicine.com)
Health
A to Z (http://www.healthatoz.com)
Health
Answers (http://www.healthanswers.com/)
Medical
World Search (http://www.mwsearch.com/)
Mediconsult.com
(http://www.mediconsult.com/)
WebMD
(http://www.webmd.com/)
Drug
Information (http://www.healthtouch.com/level1/p_dri.htm)
- Find information about more than 7,000 prescription
and over-the-counter medications, including common uses of a
drug, the proper ways to use the medicine, possible side effects,
and other helpful information.
PDR
Family Guide to Prescription Drugs (http://www.healthsquare.com/profiles.htm)
- Look up any prescription drug.
Fighting
Disease: Health At The End Of The Millennium (http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/special/health/index.html)
- Another Wired Curriculum from The United Nations CyberSchoolBus.
5 a Day from Dole
(http://www.dole5aday.com/) - Nutrition
education and fun activities for kids. In the virtual classroom
students have daily assignments for a week. One example, "If
you were in charge of your school cafeteria, what fruits and
vegetables would serve?"
Apple
Juice on the Internet (http://www.applejuice.org/)
- Welcome from AJ and the Jammin' Juicers!
The
American Dietetic Association's Complete Food & Nutrition
Guide (http://www.eatright.org/adafood.html)
- To promote the sale of this guidebook the ADA provides
a baker's dozen of excerpts.
FDA's Center
for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html)
Daily
Nutrition Tips (http://www.eatright.org/erm.html)
from the American Dietetic Association
Dietary
Guidelines for Americans (http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/dga/dguide95.html)
from the USDA
Eating
Well (http://www.worldguide.com/Fitness/nut.html)
has a really cool view of the food pyramid, and a good
explanation of each group.
Food
Allergy Network (http://www.foodallergy.org/)
- Read daily tips and product alerts.
Food
Dictionary (http://www.epicurious.com/run/fooddictionary/home)
from Epicurious - search for any food item and find recipes
for most of them.
The
Food Guide Pyramid (http://www.nal.usda.gov:8001/py/pmap.htm)
- A Guide to Daily Food Choices. (Vegetarian
version - http://www.oldwayspt.org/html/p_veg.htm)
Food
Guide Pyramid from the American Dietetic Association
(http://www.eatright.org/fgp.html) - The
Pyramid is meant for all healthy people from age two on up.
It offers practical advice to enjoy the diverse array of foods
available in today's marketplace. This page also provides a
link to the USDA.
The
Healthy Refrigerator (http://www.healthyfridge.org/mainmenu.html)
- Open the door to a healthy heart.
Healthy
Weight Network (http://www.healthyweightnetwork.com/)
- the latest scientific information on eating and weight
and help you apply it to your life.
Index
of Food and Nutrition Internet Resources
(http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/fnic.html) - Compiled
by the Food and Nutrition Information Center of the USDA.
Journal
of The American Dietetic Association (http://www.eatright.org/pr/highlights.html)
- read highlights of the current issue or see a previous
issue
Leafy
Greens (http://www.leafy-greens.org/)
- The National Leafy Greens Council provides market,
nutritional, and educational information to consumers, produce
growers and produce buyers. Promotional materials such as their
Leafy Greens Lesson Plans encourage students to understand the
nutritional benefits and the cancer-fighting elements of leafy
greens.
Milk
(http://www.whymilk.com/) - Where's your
mustache?
Nutrition
Features (http://www.eatright.org/feature/)
- a different article each month from the American Dietetic
Association. As an example, the October 1998 article was Sugar
Myths - A Trick or Treat? (http://www.eatright.org/feature/100198.html)
Office
of Public Health and Science (http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/ophs/)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Quackwatch
(http://www.quackwatch.com/) - Your Guide
to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions
A Story
Coloring Book about tooth care - The class divided into
groups. All week they worked on their play, which they called
"Bright Smiles, Bright Futures." They wrote the script, assigned
parts and practiced. As you read the story, select the picture
you'd like to color on each page. (http://www.colgate.com/Kids-world/coloring/)
Colgate
Kids World (http://kids-world.colgate.com/)
Many great tooth care related care. Includes coloring
activities. Activities sorted by age of child.
