Physical Health

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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

Nutrition and Eating Healthy:

HealthNotes: http://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: http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/humannutrition/

Health and Nutrition: http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=23

Families, Food and Fitness: http://www.extension.org/families%20food%20fitness

Stand up more and Eat better: http://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.

My Pyramid: http://www.mypyramid.gov/
MyPyramid offers personalized eating plans and interactive tools to help you plan and assess your food choices based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Look for the Great Plate and the Food Pyramid on this website.

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.

Live Healthy America: http://www.hy-vee.com/health/live-healthy-america/default.aspx
Hy-Vee sponsors a walking program to encourage better health and physical fitness. This is a paid program for teams of people to walk their way to better health with their Hy-Vee grocery store.

Stand up and Eat: http://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.

Faithfully Fit Forever:  See Health Curriculum

Health Care, Health Insurance and Medical Conditions:

Kansas Health Online: http://www.kansashealthonline.org/index.php
Kansas Health Online helps Kansans make well-informed health care decisions. You'll find quality information and news about medical conditions, health insurance, and health care policy.

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.