PED266 Fall 2010

This website provides a lot of information on fitness, nutrition, and strength and conditioning. It also has links to other organizations and free training videos.

The Wilmington chapter of Crossfit. It is an amazing strength and conditioning program, which delivers fitness by design is broad, which makes it perfect for any commited individual.

This site is sponsored through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On this site particularly, it covers all aspects concerning immunizations and vaccinations, including facts sheets about immunizations and immunization schedules for pediatrics. This information is important not only to parents of pediatric patients, but also to any one who perhaps is interested in traveling outside the country or for people moving to the United States. This site also offers publication materials that you can use in your community to promote safe vaccinations!

For anyone that likes to race, this is a central website where you can register for triathlons, road races, and 5ks to marathons. Its based on region, so from Wilmington you can register for races in NC, VA, and SC.

The US webpage for Habitat for Humanity. Community Service is a passion of mine and I love working with Habitat.

Learn and try different recipes. It has everything from microwave meals to slow cooked meals. It shows all different tabs so that looking for a specific type of food is easy. You can put your favorite recipes on and share with others or keep them in your file for future reference. It gives tips for having big dinner parties as well.

This article discusses the importance of eating healthy. Although eating organic is a good way to start, not everyone can afford to shop organic all of the time. This article explains other ways to begin eating healthier.

This website is a great tool for physical therapists. They include scholarships as well as information on different jobs and continuing education.

Provides an outlook on the career of an Athletic Trainer. Also gives the salary rates, requirements, and other useful information.

With all the imergerging trends in the exercise industry it is great to know wheather these machines and plans actually work. People ask all the time if this or that works, now you can tell them for sure.

Great yoga center right off of Oleander. It has a bunch of different types of classes like vinyasa and hot yoga for all levels of experience. There is also a student discount!

The CDC publishes articles weekly dealing with Morbidity and Mortality issues mostly in the United States. This site is an great tool for other health/exercise/medical information, studies, and new discoveries.

Learn something new about a variety of foods and nutrition news. Lots of info that will help keep you current with your nutrition and nutritional trends.

This website gives you a variety of exercises that you can do at home. It allows you to tone your muscles without needing wieghts.

This site discusses barefoot running. This is currently a hot topic on whether or not this style of running is good for your body

Same stuff from the book that's just online. Definitely helpful if you're trying to eat healthier in restaurants or at home

Tidal Creek Co-Op is a local organic and health foods store located off of Oleander. You can pay a membership fee which gives you an opportunity to earn money back at the end of the year based on how much you have spent at this store and based on the store's over-all profit, and sometimes you get an extra discount at the register when you check-out. However, you do not have to have membership in the Co-op to shop there. This is a great resource in the community not only for purchasing healthy foods, but also for health and wellness programs.

This website provides people with some of the latest Cross Country and Track and Field news, results and information. It also allows athletes to create online running and training logs. It's not all serious--the creators of the website went around the country challenging people to a push up contest. Overall a great site, lots of information, and you can learn a lot from professional athlete and coach interviews.

This is a great source for keeping track of your daily food intake. This tool even breaks down your various nutrient intake for the day, week, and month. If you over-consume your daily intake of protien, for example, it will highlight "Protein" in red to catch you attention. -Rachel