RVHS Health Department

# National Clearing House for Alcohol and Drug Information http://www.health.org/
Excellent resource

# Picada Online http://members.aol.com/picadaweb/info.htm
Excellent site includes descriptions of drugs, their characteristics, and their street names

Google Directory http://www.google.com
Select the Directory tab. Go to Health. Select Addictions. Select Substance Abuse. Select Illegal Drugs to go to specific drugs.

Yahoo Directory http://www.yahoo.com
Select Drugs under Health category. Select Substance Abuse.

Drugs, Society and Behavior: Annual Editions
http://www.dushkin.com/online/contentsmain.mhtml
Under Annual Editions, select Drugs, Society and Behavior

Health Databases - Excellent resources for Health Information

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

HealthWeb

Institute of Health - National Institutes of Health Web site includes a search engine to search the Institutes various databases for health related information

Karolinska University (Sweden) Alphabetical list of Diseases http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/alphalist.html

MedlinePlus Health Information http://medlineplus.gov/

Merck Manual of Medical Information -- http://www.merckhomeedition.com
Includes an interactive multimedia edition

Virtual Library of Medicine and Health - Links to various sites containing medical information

Virtual Library of Pharmacy

WebMD

Adult Living

#AA Weight Loss and Diet Plan Success

Glossary of symptoms and mental illnesses affecting teenagers

Consumer Reports

Facts for Families - Fact sheets for various issues relating to families, parenting, children, and young adults

First 9 Months - Presents a multimedia journey through the first nine months of an unborn child's life.

Let's get married

Parenting Magazine

Parents Magazine

Health Links

American Heart Association - official website of the association

Blood Types Tutorial - http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/problem_sets/blood_types/Intro.html
Tutorial on blood types, including a set of questions and answers about blood type inheritance.

Dushkin Online - Web resources to supplement Annual Editions, Taking Sides, and Global Studies

Poison Center Answer Book - This site has information about common poisons including insect bites, lyme disease, snake bites, mushrooms, pesticides, and food poisoning. It also includes a babysitters guide, poisoning prevention tips, emergency first aid information, and a section on pet poisoning.

Sports Medicine

Physicians and Sports Medicine Online - Articles on topics in sports medicine and personal health

Nutrition

HEIA Nutrition and Food http://www.pa.ash.org.au/tefa/heia/

How Stuff Works: Food http://www.howstuffworks.com/category-foods.htm

Nutrition Explorations http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/

Awesome Library Nutrition Links http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Health_PE/Nutrition/Nutrition.html

FDA Center for Food Safety and Nutrition http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html

Food Timetable http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html

Resources for Food History http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food2.html#history

http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/pyramid.htm

http://www.motts.com/pages/main.cfm?tid=2&jid=6&aid=281&pid=281

http://www.navigator.tufts.edu/

www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/nutrition/pube/foodguid/>

www.nutrition.gov

http://www.mikesart.net/cooking/nutritionOnLine/.

http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/

http://www.nat.uiuc.edu/

www.fitday.com.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl

http://www.nutrition.org.uk/

You might want to try CalorieKing.com - Food Database (www.calorieking.com/foods/). I used it with a group of health classes last month and it worked out well.

If you're looking for fast foods try
Fast Food Facts - Interactive Food Finder (http://www.olen.com/food/)
Fast Food Facts (http://www.kenkuhl.com/fastfood/).

http://www.dole5aday.com/Teachers/T_Index.html

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/index.html

Last year I used the US Department of Agriculture web site. It took a lot to weed through it, but they had a place where you could put in what you ate in a day and it would make your personal food pyramid comparing it to the standard food pyramid. A real eye opener. Don't know if it is still there and don't have the address at home and when I did a search of the site I got so many hits I ran out of time. It might be worth you hunt if it sounds like something that will help you.

http://www.foodfit.com/

RVHS Health Education Department