Personal
Health and Fitness
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Fitness
Jumpsite - http://primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/index.html
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This site is a general introduction to physical fitness and includes the Activity
Calorie Calculator. Simply enter your body weight and duration
of the activity, then press Show me! The number of calories burned during
the specified duration will be calculated for each activity. It also has
a link to the Fitness
Library where you will find lots of information on maintaining
health and fitness at this website. Includes getting started, equipment,
weight management, and regular features.
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American Fitness
Alliance - http://www.americanfitness.net/
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This Web site promotes physical fitness in the schools and sells products
for assessing physical fitness in students.
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Just Move: Fitness
Center - http://www.justmove.org/home.cfm
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This Web site is sponsored and maintained by the American Heart Association.
Components include: "Exercise Diary--Keep track of your progress on-line
and sign up for your very own Virtual Personal Trainer; Fitness News--The
latest health, heart and fitness information as well as FAQ's and health
facts; and My Fitness--What fitness category do you fall into? Find out
here and receive personal information."
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Shape Up America!-
http://www.shapeup.org/
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"Our website is designed to provide you with the latest information about
safe weight management, healthy eating, increased activity and physical
fitness." Includes the Body Fat Lab; Health & Fitness Center; Library;
and Media Center.
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Dr. Mirkin.com-
http://www.drmirkin.com/
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The Web site of well-known radio talk show host, "a physician, author,
professor, columnist, talk show host -- and former marathon runner. A practicing
physician for forty years and a talk show host for twenty, Dr. Gabe Mirkin
is now heard each weekday from 4-7PM (ET) on the Talk America Radio Network
.... "While we discuss any topics related to health that are raised
by callers, each hour I include timely information on fitness, nutrition
and human sexuality," says Dr. Mirkin, ... [who] stays in touch with the
latest findings by scanning as many as 1,000 medical journals each month."
Return to the Redwood
Cybrary
Health Page
Updated by the Webspinner:
April 5, 2007.
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Drive, Larkspur, CA 94939 -- 415.945.3662