Great Health and Physical Education Links

This Web site allows the visitor to ask questions about health and wellness issues. The visitor simply sends their question via the form on the site. It is answered by the team of folks from the Columbia University Health Question and Answer Service. Answers are provided and posted in a matter of days. Visitors can read all other questions and answers in their nicely present archive section.

This site helps parents, children, and professionals find answers to commonly asked health questions. Topics include the benefits of different types of vitamins, the food pyramid, healthy children's recipes, how to read food labels, and keeping fit. Children can also submit their own questions. Check out the "Childhood Infections" section under "Parents" for information about appendicitis, meningitis, mumps, and more. For a good laugh, be sure to read the entry for that most common of all childhood afflictions, cooties. A great site but be patient this site may take a little longer to download

One size doesn't fit all. MyPyramid Plan can help you choose the foods and amounts that are right for you. For a quick estimate of what and how much you need to eat, enter your age, sex, and activity level in the MyPyramid Plan box. For a detailed assessment of your food intake and physical activity level, click on MyPyramid Tracker. Use the advice "Inside MyPyramid" to help you: make smart choices from every food group, find your balance between food and physical activity, and get the most nutrition out of your calories

The Center for Science in the Public Interest introduces a web site designed to teach kids that healthy eating can be fun! This snazzy web site uses games to teach kids (and their parents and teachers) how to eat well and resist the food industry's marketing campaigns. Kids can see how their favorite restaurant foods stack up, play "true or false" with a food industry spokesman, and "bite back" by asking food companies and government officials to promote nutrition

Kidnetic.com is a Web site that communicates healthy eating and active living information in meaningful and relevant ways to kids aged 9-12 and their families. Kidnetic.com is intended to encourage kids and their families to begin the process of behavior change toward healthy lifestyles. Kidnetic.com is the first component of ACTIVATE, a healthy eating and active living initiative. ACTIVATE is committed to promoting healthy family lifestyles to help prevent kids from becoming significantly overweight and to reduce their risk of suffering from obesity-related chronic diseases as adults.

The Scrub Club (www.scrubclub.org) provides a fun way for kids to learn the importance of handwashing to fight infectious and food borne diseases. By watching the adventures of seven soaper-heroes, kids learn the six steps to proper handwashing. In addition to an animated Webisode, kids, parents and teachers can access:

* Interactive games that are fun, yet teach you how to
properly wash up.
* Educational music and activities to download.
* Public service announcements.
* Tips for parents on teaching kids how to wash their hands.
* Curriculum guide for teachers

This site informs you all about the proper ways to warm up and stretch. 

Play the Longevity Game and calculate how long you can expect to live based on life insurance industry research.  (This web page is for parents)

This free web page is a great way to monitor your nutritional goals.