www.eatsmart.org - (Dairy Council of Washington State) Enter the Nutrition Café! Play interactive nutrition games that test your knowledge of nutrients and food groups. Sign up for one of their two online newsletters. Choose from a newsletter for seniors with advice on aging or the Nutrition Nibbles newsletter that offers up-to-date information on how to decipher fact from fiction with regards to nutrition. This site has a large list of free educational resources for pre-kindergarten through sixth grade as well as PowerPoint presentations on Sports nutrition and Healthy Habits for life. It also offers a list of links including The Wellness Guy – a source of health promotion and wellness in the Northwest. All in all a very informational site!

www.healthy.net - Enter “Health World” a virtual health resource of wellness information. An interactive amusement park with individual theme parks that take you through a Nutrition Center, a Fitness Center, A Referral Network, Alternative Medicine and much, much more. This site offers a free online newsletter and stores where you can purchase items for a healthy lifestyle including vitamins, books, and even baby gifts! The Wellness Center at the middle of the park offers information on Mind/body heath, spiritual health and exercises in progressive relaxation. This site is a must

www.Intelihealth.com - From the Harvard Medical School. Offers information on healthy lifestyles, diseases and conditions, men and women’s health issues. It also offers interactive tools such as a depression self assessment questionnaire and a report on what your answers say about you. Lots of quizzes for you take on everything from body weight to cholesterol to chocolate! It also has an online body mass index calculator and a pregnancy due date calculator! This is an excellent site with lots of useful information and user-friendly tools!

www.americanheart.org - (The American Heart Association ) This site is full of useful, easy to understand information. Subjects included are, of course, Heart Attack Warning Signs, CPR, Healthy Lifestyles and eating well for a healthy heart. Check out the Healthy Lifestyle page that takes you through exercise tips, raising heart healthy, active children, and nutrition for a healthy heart. For a quick overview of the site that is user friendly click on the site index. It allows you to quickly find what you are looking for. For those who are looking for a program to start getting back into shape, check out Choose To Move under Healthy Lifestyles or you can go to justmove.org website by clicking on the link. A good place to start when looking at wellness subjects.

www.wheatfoods.org - Not a lot of information on the site, but lots of links to related sites such as health and nutrition organizations and other nutrition sites. A personal favorite is the link to Hershey’s Chocolate! As we all know, wellness includes some comfort foods! Other sites include Kellogg’s, IronKids and KidsHealth. The links make this a useful site to visit.

www.foodfit.com - The home page is very user friendly and allows a quick overview of tools and information. Click on the picnic basket to check out everything from meal planners to weight calculators. A very interactive site that offers nutritional information as well as recipes, healthy eating and cooking. Sign up for their newsletter, which is updated three times a week.

www.seniorswellness.com - A great site for seniors or anybody for that matter! This site offers information from alcoholism to yearly exams and anything in between. Tips on dealing with end-of life care, caring for someone with Alzheimers’s Disease, and healthy habits for seniors. It includes Tips of the Week, Helpful Hints and a Medical Index. Sign up for their online newsletter or check out some of the many senior links listed. Some of these sites include: Health & Aging, Caregiver Resources, and Assisted Living. For anyone with an elderly relative or anyone wanting information on aging issues, this would be a worthwhile site

www.sparkpeople.com - Set your fitness goals and track your progress with their online fitness program. You can use their online journal to track your success Sign up for your free membership to the site and get inspirational quotes and newsletters . You can set up “pop ups” to remind you to track your goals and you can specify if you want emails reminding you if you miss one of your goals. This site contains lots of information to help you attain your goals through nutrition, exercise, and inspiration. Check this site out!

www.healthchecksystems.com - Great fitness gadget store! Order Heart rate monitors, blood pressure monitors and health & fitness tools, tips and information.

www.mealsforyou.com - This is a fun site with recipes, for healthy eating and to make it easy they offer a shopping list for the recipe selected. Offers fitness, and nutritional information as well a health guide. Also have a free online newsletter that offers tips, recipes and meal plans as well as other information pertaining to nutrition.

www.onhealth.com - (WebMd) there is a plethora of information on sports & fitness, health, nutrition, health guides. Check out everything from Drugs and Herbs to Aging. You can create a personal online health record, read up on healthcare news, information or check your symptoms. They too have an online newsletter.

www.yourlinktonutrition.com - Site offers links to a wide variety of wellness sites, as well as recipes and is a definite one to take a look at. Some of the sites topics include weight & fitness, diabetes and special diets.

www.strongwomen.com - Bookstore with lots of information on women’s health issues including how to eat well and beat arthritis.

www.nutrition.gov - This site is easy to navigate. It includes information on food facts and safety, health management. This site links to a list of newsletters that you can sign up for . The list includes newsletters on food and nutrition an information on antioxidants and aging.

www.cancer.org - Lots of information on cancer research and offers useful tools such as how to locate Doctors, and support systems for current and recovering cancer patients.