CHOLESTEROL
- Cholesterol Tracker: Monitor your progress on managing your cholesterol. Print and use this tool from the AHA and share it with your doctor.
- Managing Cholesterol: Cholesterol is one of the most familiar medical words today. Cholesterol is a waxy substance that is very important for our body, but could also be very dangerous if there are high levels of it in our blood. This interactive tutorial will help you understand what cholesterol is and how to control the level of cholesterol in your body.
- Test Your Cholesterol IQ With This Quiz: How much do you truly know about cholesterol? Do you have a few minutes? Take this brief 10 question quiz.
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EXERCISE AND WEIGHT LOSS
- Adult BMI Calculator: Provides a definition for BMI as well as separate BMI calculators for adults and for children and teens. Additional nutrition, weight and health resources are also available.
- America on the Move: Allows users to keep track of their physical activity (steps) and dietary progress.
- Exercising for a Healthy Life: This interactive module discusses the benefits of being physically active. It also presents exercising options and tips.
- How Active Are You? Calorie Calculator: Determines a targeted calorie intake determined by a person’s gender, age, height, weight, and activity level.
- Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid Tool: An online tool to help people manage their weight and improve their health. The pyramid emphasizes low energy density high volume foods and focuses on increasing intakes of fruits and vegetables.
- SmallStep.gov: Stories, newsletter, tips and recipes geared to helping people manage their weight and body image. Includes the Small Step Activity Tracker that allows users to set physical activity goals and track progress.
- Learn more about Stress Testing with this MedlinePlus interactive module
- WebMD Diet Health Check: WebMD’s interactive Weight & Diet Makeover Health Check will assess your weight loss goals, determine your metabolic starting point, evaluate your current eating, and create a personalized weight loss plan.
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FOOD AND NUTRITION
- America on the Move: Allows users to keep track of their physical activity (steps) and dietary progress.
- Analyze My Plate is an interactive tool from the CDC based on the balanced plate concept.
- Carbohydrate Calculator: Calculates your daily carbohydrate intake requirement based on factors like age, height, and gender.
- Count Your Fat Grams Worksheet: Determine your ideal weight, the daily calories needed to maintain that weight, and your maximum allowance of fat grams per day.
- Cyberkitchen by Shape Up America: Shows how to balance food intake with physical activity. Also provides information on how to achieve and maintain a healthy weight through interactive assessment, meal planning, and recipes.
- Delicious Decisions: Find heart-healthy recipes for everything from appetizers to desserts. Recipes range from Thai curry catfish to mushroom quesadillas.
- Face the Fats: The American Heart Association’s page on fat facts including quizzes and interactive calculators.
- Fruit and Vegetable Recipes Find great meals and create your own cookbook on the CDC’s Fruits and Veggies Matter Website
- A Healthier You - My Shopping List: Make a healthy foods shopping list, based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005.
- Interactive Nutrition Quiz: 6-question quiz to help you separate nutrition fact from fiction.
- Meet the Fats: Your chance to get better acquainted with the Fats family- the Bad Fats Brothers and Better Fats Sisters.
- Portion Distortion Quiz: Interactive Web site with two quizzes to compare portion sizes now and 20 years ago.
- Recipe Remix: Find helpful tips to reduce the total fat, saturated fat, calories, and sodium in your favorite recipes.
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HEART HEALTH AND BLOOD PRESSURE
- For Your Heart: Provides women with a personalized series of articles detailing the latest information on exercise, nutrition, smoking, diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure and other factors that affect women and their risk for heart disease - all tailored to meet the needs of each individual.
- High Blood Pressure Health Risk Calculator: Enter your blood pressure numbers to: Understand your health risks, get quick answers to common questions about blood pressure, learn how lifestyle changes can lower blood pressure and your health risks, and get a printout to use at your next doctor's appointment.
- High Blood Pressure Heart Profiler: The American Heart Association has interactive tools that can help you participate in decisions about your blood pressure treatment.
- Learn more about Stress Testing with this MedlinePlus interactive module
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MENTAL/EMOTIONAL HEALTH
- Online Depression Screening Test: Designed to give a preliminary idea about the presence of mild to moderate depressive symptoms that indicate the need for an evaluation by a psychiatrist.
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METABOLIC AND RENAL
- Calculate your risk of developing pre-diabetes and diabetes using the Diabetes Risk Calculator
- CheckUp America is a national prevention initiative of the American Diabetes Association aimed at helping people learn how to lower their risk for type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
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SMOKING CESSATION
- Become an Ex: On this personalized smoking cessation support site, you’ll find plenty of tools, resources, information, and exercises that will help prepare you to quit. Allows you to create a free confidential profile so that you can set a quit date, track your progress online, complete & save exercises, and join the online community.
- Craving Journal to print out, fill out, and identify triggers.
- Freedom from Smoking Online: The American Lung Association’s free online smoking cessation program. The program consists of 7 modules that guide you through the process of quitting and give you strategies to stay smoke-free in the future.
- Smokefree.gov allows you to choose the help that best fits your needs. You can get immediate assistance in the form of: An online step-by-step cessation guide, Local and state telephone quitlines, National Cancer Institute's telephone quitline and instant messaging service, and publications, which may be downloaded, printed, or ordered.
- Try-to-Stop is a web-based support program sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
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