Current Health
Nutrition Action Health Letter The Fay School Library subscribes
to both of these print periodicals. They are very
useful for health and nutrition information. Find
them in the magazine section of the library. Nutrition
Action Health Letter ONLINE.
MyPyramid.gov 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. Check out
the animated MyPyramid tour. Take steps to a healthier
you!
My
Pyramid Tracker After providing a day's worth of
dietary information or physical activities, you will
receive a "score" on the overall quality
of your diet or physical activity status for that
day.
Kids'
Nutrition Official website of the Children's
Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine.
Features include interactive healthy eating, BMI and
energy calculators.
Merck
Manual The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and
Therapy is a great general medical reference.
Medline
Plus Health topics, drug information,
medical dictionaries, etc. from the National Library
of Medicine/National Institutes of Health.
InteliHealth Featuring Harvard Medical School's
Consumer Health Information, this easy-to-use site
offers disease and drug information, healthy lifestyle
resources and an A-Z encyclopedia.
Health
and Medicine Links to reliable information by
subject from the Librarians' Internet Index.
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention Information about preventing and
controlling disease, injury, and disability from the
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
Health
Reference Center Use this Gale (InfoTrac) database to find
articles on fitness, medicine, nutrition, diseases,
public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol
and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc. To use Health Reference
Center at home, enter a library card number
from Fay School (see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder) or any public library in Massachusetts
in the box below. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.
