Healthy Living

Do not be wise in your own eyes;
       fear the LORD and shun evil.

This will bring health to your body
       and nourishment to your bones.

Proverbs 3:7-8

 


Physical Health

Nutrition and Eating Healthy:

HealthNotes: www.hy-vee.com/health/healthnotes/default.aspx
Healthnotes offers comprehensive, science-based health and lifestyle information. Written with you in mind, Healthnotes answers the most commonly asked questions with credible, easy-to-understand information — edited by physicians who review over 550 scientific and medical journals to keep content current, factual, and balanced.

Human Nutrition: www.ksre.ksu.edu/humannutrition/

Stand up more and Eat better: www.standupandeat.org/
The Stand Up & Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices.

Healthy Recipes:  The TasteofHome website offers recipe conversions to make recipes healthier.

Grocery Shopping tips from Healthy Cooking at Taste of Home: A commitment to eating right starts long before a meal hits the table, and it doesn't have to cost a fortune. The editors at Healthy Cooking offer 10 tips for smart shopping at the grocery store. www.tasteofhome.com/healthycooking

Physical Activity:

America On the Move: www.americaonthemove.org
This website provides tools for tracking steps to encourage exercise and physical activity. Join a group or choose a walking path to motivate yourself to get out and move over a six-week period. This is a free service.

Stand up and Eat: www.standupandeat.org/
The Stand Up & Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices.

Health Care, Health Insurance and Medical Conditions:

WebMD: www.webmd.com
This website offers a wealth of information about medical conditions, symptoms, health, healthy eating and fitness.

MedlinePlus: www.medlineplus.gov
This site features health information and will direct you to information to help answer health questions.  MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.  Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.  


Social Health

The following websites offer resources related to social health including parenting, finances, relationships and marriage.

Home and Family: http://www.ksre.k-state.edu/family/
This site offers resources and information about a variety of topics affecting home and family life. Topics include household and human health pests, wildlife and more.