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Reference Links
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Non-Profits or Not-For-Profits
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For Profit Medical Organizations
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U.S. Government Organizations
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| Cancer - National Cancer Institute |
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
FDA - Food and Drug Administration |
FTC - Federal Trade Commission |
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| Healthier US.gov |
IOM - Institute of Medicine of The National Academy of Sciences |
Let's Move! |
Medline Plus |
Military.com Fitness Center |
You think you know what will make you healthier, but are you sure? HealthierUS.gov provides credible, accurate information to help you choose to live a healthier life. |
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Learn health and wellness the military way. |
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| My Pyramid |
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
National Institutes of Health |
National Institute of Mental Health |
PubMed |
MyPyramid Plan from the USDA can help you choose the foods and amounts that are right for you. The Menu Planning Tool is primitive. Instead we suggest people try the CalorieKing.com software instead. |
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A central library for mental-health news and research. |
A service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals from biomedical articles back to the 1950's. |
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| President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports |
Reciprocal Net |
Recreation |
United States Department of Agriculture |
United States Data |
Take the Adult Fitness Test! |
A distributed crystallography network for researchers, students and the general public. |
Recreation.gov, part of the Recreation One-Stop E-Gov initiative, offers and provides a single point of access to information about Federal recreational activities and reservations. It provides a comprehensive source of information about thousands of Federal recreation opportunities. Information about recreation opportunities on Federal lands is displayed based on the interests of the customer, not centered on the agency providing the recreation opportunity. |
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The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. |
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Educational Sites - Free or Mostly Free
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| Academic Earth |
Apple ITunes-U |
Howcast |
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Online courses from the worlds top scholars. |
iTunes U - a powerful distribution system for everything from lectures to language lessons, films to labs, audiobooks to tours — is an innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students. |
Howcast empowers people with engaging, useful how-to information wherever, whenever they need to know how.
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With a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 125 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn whatever you want, whenever you want, at your own pace. |
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Logs and Blogs and Fun Stuff
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| Cofi Jukebox |
eHow |
Find Law |
How Stuff Works |
How to Clean Stuff.net |
The top 100 songs from the golden years of popular music - plus more of our musical heritage. |
What would you like to do? eHow is the world's most popular place to find step-by-step instructions on how to do just about everything. |
We provide legal information, lawyer profiles and a community to help you make the best legal decisions. |
HowStuffWorks is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. |
Trying to clean something? This site has tips on how to clean almost anything. |
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| Instructables |
Mood Gym |
Out of Service |
Radio Lovers |
Short Answers |
Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. |
Mood Gym is a free, fun and interactive program where you can do cognitive behavioral therapy online. |
Find out about your personality! All of the following psychology personality tests are based on true psychology research, meaning that you will find out accurate information about yourself. Results are instant, free, and anonymous! |
Radiolovers.com - Free Old Time Radio Shows.
Hundreds of vintage radio shows for you to listen to online in mp3 format, all free. |
Help in small doses.
We believe that although individual lives are complicated, the solutions to our most troubling and intimate problems are often very straightforward. We sift through the details and get to the heart of the issue.
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| Tips Net |
We Endure |
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Tips.net - Helpful hints, handy tips, and thrifty ideas! |
We Endure is a social training log where you can track your progress in any of a number of endurance sports and then compare that progress with others. |
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Fake/Fraud Investigation Sites
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| American Council on Science and Health |
Break The Chain |
Down for EVERYONE or just me? |
Hoax-Slayer |
Looks Too Good To Be True |
The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) is a consumer education consortium concerned with issues related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle, the environment and health. ACSH is an independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. |
Stop Junk Email and Misinformation. |
Ever been surfing along, when suddenly a website doesn't come up? Want to figure out if it's just a problem with your computer or if it's really down? This is the website that does it for you! |
Hoax-Slayer is dedicated to debunking email hoaxes, thwarting Internet scammers, combating spam, and educating web users about email and Internet security issues. |
This website was developed to arm you with information so you don't fall victim to these Internet scam artists. Education, good judgment, and a healthy dose of skepticism are the best defenses against becoming a victim. Remember, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is! |
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| National Council Against Health Fraud |
Quackwatch |
ScamBusters |
Skeptics Dictionary |
Skeptic Wiki |
NCAHF is a private nonprofit, voluntary health agency that focuses upon health misinformation, fraud, and quackery as public health problems. Our positions are based upon the principles of science that underlie consumer protection law. |
Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions. |
You'll find lots of great free resources here on how to avoid the most popular scams, identity theft threats, and urban legends making the rounds. |
The Skeptic's Dictionary is a website and a book. Each features definitions, arguments, and essays on topics ranging from acupuncture to zombies, and provides a lively, commonsense trove of detailed information on things supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific. |
The encyclopedia of skepticism, science and reason. |
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| Snopes |
SourceWatch |
Truth or Fiction |
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Is it true or not? Check out rumors here first. |
SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. A primary purpose of SourceWatch is documenting the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and public relations professionals engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. |
Find out if those stories you hear are TRUTH! or FICTION! |
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Nutritional/Cooking Information
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Supplement Testing Links
(Look for these symbols to make sure the supplements you choose contain what the label says.)
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Healthy Tips, Info & Travel Sites
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| Airport Gyms
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Athletic Minded Travler |
Environmental Working Group - SUNSCREEN Information |
Habit Forge |
Local Hikes |
When you're traveling use this site to find the closest place to workout. |
Expert recommendations for athletic-minded travelers. |
Your favorite sunscreen may not be all it's advertised to be. EWG's research team found that most brand-name sunscreens either don't sufficiently protect skin from sun damage or contain hazardous chemicals - or both. |
You provide a Goal and Desire, and we'll send you a customized daily email asking how you did.
Simply click "yes" or "no" daily.
Succeed for 21 days, and the new action will be easier than ever.Skip a day and the clock starts over at day one.
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The Localhikes web site provides information on local hiking opportunities near both large and small metropolitan areas in the United States. You can find the perfect trail by selecting your metro area below to browse the available hikes, or by using the search feature to find the trails closest to your home or office. |
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| Martial Arts Schools |
Men's Health Gymfinder |
Packing List Online |
Trail Link |
Smart Runner |
Find local Martial Arts Schools. |
Find your next great workout. Search the Men's Health database of gyms, health clubs and sports centers. |
Packing our bags, the last minute horror before traveling to your holiday destination. Not anymore! Packinglistonline provides you a free packing list that is easy to use. Follow the steps and within a minute you have a personalized packing list. |
Discover more than 30,000 miles of bike trails, walking trails, equestrian trails, and hiking and running trails including interactive trail maps, trail descriptions, photos, reviews and more. |
SmartRunner consists of two components: a mobile application and a website. GPS (global positioning system) makes it possible to record an athlete's motion during training. The only thing needed is a phone with SmartRunner software installed. Already during training information such as speed, calorie consumption, traveled distance and time required become available. Back home after running data can be analyzed and evaluated on the computer or experiences can be discussed through the SmartRunner-community website. |
| Sports Injury Clinic |
Trails |
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We have information on over 350 sports injuries with rehabilitation, stretching, strengthening exercises and more. |
Trails.com is made up of a team of outdoor enthusiasts with backgrounds in web development, project management, outdoor retail, digital content, and information technology. Our team has traveled and explored the outdoors all over North America and internationally in Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. |
Trip Planning, GPS Navigation, Fitness Training using a GPS enabled phone or GPS Navigator |
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Biking, Running & Walking Information
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| Bicycling |
BicyclingInfo.org |
Bike Hugger
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League of American Bicyclists |
Map My Ride |
Bicycling is the world's leading cycling magazine and connects with millions of active, affluent professionals for whom cycling is the centerpiece of a vibrant, experiential lifestyle. |
By promoting bicycling, individuals and organizations plant the seeds for initiating change by creating awareness about bicycle issues and alerting others to the benefits of bicycling and the ways that bikeable places foster healthier, more livable communities. |
A "Hugger" is someone whose lifestyle revolves around a sport, who is transfixed by gear shopping, who builds arsenals of equipment, and who spends the week training for the weekend (if they haven't rearranged their lives to do their sport full-time). |
To promote bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America. |
Search bike maps in your area, track cycling workouts in our online bike training log and track your favorite biking routes. |
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| Mud Run HQ |
Mud Runs |
Route Finder |
Team in Training |
Walk Score |
If you’re new round here, get ready for a BLAST! Mud Runs are the dirtiest, challenging and most downright fun out there. . . . What to Do Right Now? |
MudRuns.net is your all-in-one resource on everything related to mud run details and mud racing events! From the latest mud run events to mud run training advice, mud race FAQ’s to basic mud racing information- we’ve got it all covered! |
Find running routes around the country by entering nothing more than a zip code or city name. |
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training® is the world's largest endurance sports training program. The program provides training to run or walk marathons and half marathons or participate in triathlons and century (100-mile) bike rides. |
Walk Score ranks your neighborhood based on zip code to help you find a walkable place to live. |
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Consumer Protection Sites
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Weather & Emergency/Disaster Preparation Sites
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