Gathering the best health, fitness, nutrition, wellness, and FUN online resources for our readers.

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LOCAL HARVEST - the best organic food is what’s grown closest to you. This website helps you to find farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.

HEALTH AND DIET BLOGS
Healthy Tips For A Healthy Lifestyle - health tips to inspire you to become healthier. Tips regarding food, exercise and more will be updated reguraly.
Feel Good Health Now - Dr. Dominic Gaziano (The Feel Good Health Guy Health and Wellness Expert), presents health & lifestyle tips online, for living a healthier life.
Energise for Life - Natural health, alkaline diet, health news, alkaline diet resources & tips to make you happy.
Healthy Mind, Healthy Body - the relationship between the body, the mind and health and how spirituality, meditation, mindfulness, exercises, proper nutrition and self care, can help us keep our body and mind in harmony to make us healthy.
Because you value your body - lots of informative, short and to the point helpful posts on health and related issues.
Dietriffic - “Weighty Advcie from a pro. No jargon. No nonsense. Just a straight talking qualified dietitian, giving advice and sharing knowledge, equipping you to take the necessary steps to better health.”
Real Food For Life - discussions on quality of life issues such as diet, nutrition, exercise, finance and spirituality.

FOOD PRODUCTS - (diet, low sodium, healthy, organic, etc.)
Amy’s Kitchen - family business providing prepared vegetarian meals made with natural and organic ingredients.
Heart Healthy Market - 100s of healthy food items, recipes, low sodium products
Rice Diet Store - lots of healthy items, focusing mostly on low-sodium
Extend Bars - best protein bar on market, designed to keep blood sugar levels stable up to 9 hours
Fit and Free Pizza - only 252 calories, taste great, and gluten free.
Only 8 Yogurt - all natural, only 32 calories per serving, safe for latose interolant and diabetics.
Peanut Butter (Bell Plantation) - 54 calories a serving, all natural
Sweet Perfection - all natural (made from a root) sugar substitute, only 3 calories per tsp.

HEALTH
Healing Food Reference and Herb Reference - comprehensive listings of health benefits of herbs & Food, easy to navigate through the two alphabetical listings: one of food\herb name and the other of health conditions.
Honest Food Guide - free to download. Genuine nutritional information, not watered-down information designed to boost the sale of milk, beef and grains.”
Health Express - exercise, training and instructor supplies (bands, posters, nutrition eduction)
Health Bolt - Blog with the latest news and information on science and health with personality and perspective. Improve your everyday life guided by passionately opinionated writers who care about you
America On The Move - “Keep it simple.” A national movement that encourages everyone to take steps towards a healthier way of life.
Because you love your body - Very good blog on the health benefits of foods, herbs, and lots of other information.
Dr. Weil - Your trusted health advisor (sound medical advice with alternative healing options included). Author of 8 Weeks to Optimum Health.
Healing Foods Reference - Free public service to promote health freedom and empower consumers with information about the healing power of foods.
Health Information - U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Resources.
Health Tools - Mayo Clinic, a variety of online tools for self assessment, calculators, quizzes
Guide to Changing Behavior - Guide to Changing Behavior (National Heart Lung & Blood Institute) - includes lots of other useful information for getting healthy.
Junk Food Science - the truth about food, fat and health, laern the science that mainstream media doesn’t report and how to critically think about the junk they do that’s not fit to swallow.
Obesity.org - Obesity is not a simple condition of eating too much. It is now recognized as a serious, chronic disease. No human condition — not race, religion, gender or ethnicity — compares to obesity in prevalence and prejudice, mortality and morbidity, sickness and stigma.
Green Smoothie Info - recipes and information

NUTRITION
Health Castle - Simply better health (nutirition 101, super foods, weight & diet information)
Nutrition Data - complete nutritional inforamtion for any food or recipe, helps you select foods that best match your dietary needs.
Nature’s Health Foods - micro-nutrients, phyto-nutrients, vitamins, minerals, super foods, recipes.
The Menu Coach - Creating healthy people one menu at time.

FITNESS
Couch to 5K - beginner’s running schedule has helped thousands of new runners get off the couch and onto the roads, running 3 miles in just two months.
Calories Burned - enter your body weight and the time you spend during an activity to calculate the total calories burned
Burn the Fat - fittest blog
Exercise and Muscle Directory - resource for trainers and therapist, create easy exercise routines.
Fitness Chronicles (Do, or do not. There is no try.) - fitness advice with out the hype. (blog)
Fitness Fixation - unleash your inner badass
Physical Exercises - packed with exercises to build free work out programs
Strong Lifts - Strength Training - Nutrition - Lifestyle - Attitude
The Training Station Inc. - over 100 animated exercise examples.
Weight Loss Tips (exercises on youtube videos)

RENEWAL, INSPIRATION, RELAX, FUN
Right Now - a simply beautiful, wonderful way to de-stress and take a few moments to gain perspective
Native American Code of Ethics - truly beautiful, code to live by, find your balance, discover what is truly important.
Essentials of Buddhism - simple, beautiful, tranquil
Mind, Body, Spirity and Fluttering Thoughts - “We are body, mind and spirit all wrapped up into one. Each of us borrow the package during our time on earth. How we pamper or abuse our body and mind leads to how we are spiritually and how balanced we are.”

HEALTH, FOOD AND DIET INFO.
Health A to Z Cool Tools - lots of great easy to use online tools, i.e. food pyramid to calculate calories needed (broken into food groups); calories burned; lots of information and logs.
Shrink Yourself (blog) - hosted by Michelle Fiordaliso, clinical director of Shrink Yourself, gives you expert info. on emotional eating. (Blog based on the book, Shrink Yourself by Dr. Gould)
The Beck Diet Solution (dieters’ blog) - follows the progress of 11 women learning the techniques of the BDS program as they steadily lose weight. (blog based on book The Beck Diet Solution, by Dr. Beck)
Hungry Girl - product reviews, tips, lots more.
The Nibble - diet gourmet food, food reviews, yummy things for foodies with restirctions.
Serotonin Power Diet - By harnessing the power of serotonin, THE SEROTONIN POWER DIET allows you to eat less, lose weight and feel good about yourself again.
Three Fat Chicks - three sisters weight loss blog, reviews, forums, lots of info.

DIET TOOLS
My Fitness Pal - free calorie, carb, and fitness tracking tool
Calorie Count - know before you eat! Includes information on fast foods.
The Daily Plate - easy, free way to track what you eat.
Diet Bites - lots of resources, menu and diet planning, and more.
The Diet Channel - diet, fitness, and nutrition information.
Every Diet - reviews of 100s of diets.
Fit Day - free online journal.
Foods Database - food and activity tracking, nutrition, food, and recipe resource.
Health Fitness Calculators - several different useful tools, including target heart rate, estimated daily calorie intake.
Calculate Daily Calories Needed - based on age, height, weight, activity level.
Burning off the fat - estimate number of calories burned for various activities.
Diet Calculator - BMI, % of body fat & lean body mass.
Virtual Model - from Prevention.com, they list it for trying on bathing suits, but it is also a great diet motivation tool.
My Virtual Model - links to several sources for virtual models for men and women
40-30-30 Diet Calculator - geared to high protein.

COMMUNITIES
Fat Secret - community of dieters, information, feedback, resourcs.
Konamoxt - where fitness meets inspiration, gathering place for active people committed to the fitness lifestyle (get a free blog).
Weight Loss Surgery - lots of information and a supportive forum.

FOOD FUN FOR KIDS
Children’s Nutrition Center - lots of fun links just for kids
Food & Nutrition Information Center - My Pyramid for Kids, Child Nutrition and Health
Neat Solutions Nutrition Lesson Plans - these are designed for teachers, but are great for generating ideas you can do for family fun at home (without having to buy the teaching supply package).
Cooking with Kids - healthy, fun in the kitchen
Nutrition Coloring Book - free pages you can print out.

GLOBAL HEALTH & ISSUES
Awaken Your Inner Gaia - seeks to raise public awareness of issues that affect all of us.
Ideal Bite - bite-sized ideas for light green living.

OTHER
Fly Lady - online coach to getting your home organized.

Campaign for Real Beauty - Dove, (resources for FREE) Real Beauty Workshop for Girls Facilitator Training Guide is an easy to use tool that takes you through everything you need to know to arrange and host a self-esteem workshop and mother\daughter kits too.

FASHION (for all sizes)
Beauty Plus Power - blog and listing of 500 resources for plus-size fashions
Curvy Fashionista’s Catch of the Day - blog and lots of resources for sexy plus-size fashions
Swimsuits for All - shop
Too Fat For Fashion (blog) - Fashion beyond sample sizes.

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