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This a good website to go to if you want a range of options when it comes to healthy eating/dieting and fitness. You can use this site if you already live a healthy lifestyle, or if you want to start.

This website contains many different stories and articles on health and medicine.  Where it be from a surgery to how you should eat this website is a good place to look for information on nutrition and health.

Great organization with information on how to become certified in different ACSM jobs, like personal trainer, CSCS and health and fitness experts. It is very useful for a college student, or a health and fitness professional.

This website is used by professionals and the general public to gain insight into sports medicine. It provides physical activity guidelines, current comments, position stands, and articles referencing exercise, health and fitness, and physiology.

Provides information for several different health and fitness certifications as well as guidelines for exercise prescription for general and special populations, this is also the governing body for Exercise Science

This site keeps up to date with the latest research news. In particular I am interested in the articles about health and medicine. They have links that narrow down your search to exactly what disease or condition you want to know about. I really enjoy keeping up to date with all this research.

This is a site I found researching for my PLN project. It was very useful and interesting to me. It has all kinds of research on new technology and medicine in all aspects of health care.

This website offers blogs, events, and even videos on top of providing information on what is available at Tidal Creek Co-op (grocery store more or less). If you are looking for a great and healthy place to shop for food, medicine, and personal hygiene products Tidal Creek Co-op is a fantastic local place to go.

This website offers wisdom, newsletters, health, and more. It offers daily tips on a wide variety of health topics.

This website is based off a magazine distributed all over the world. It depicts different yoga poses, mind and body health, holistic healing, and wisdom. It also teaches families and parents about food and habitat wellness and proper self-care. Yoga news, controversial issues about yoga used as medicine and daily blogs are also contained within this website. There is also a link that will give you ideas for music while performing yoga. This magazine has been around for 30 years and written by credible authors. Check is out and sign up for a free issue.

This website offers a variety of alternative medicines and techniques to achieve a balanced, healed, healthy life. It provides gardening tips on how to grow health foods, personal care, and much more.

This website covers topics from all aspects of wellness and health. Topics such as aging, disabilities, beauty, and medicine are all covered in great detail. If you are looking for a wide range of helpful information this website is a great place to start.

This blog is all about sleep and sleep disorders. This is from WebMD which actually has quite a few blogs about different topics. They are all very credible because they are published by an expert with a lot of experience in the field the blog is about. This particular for example blog is published by Michael Brues who has a PhD and is a member of the American Board of Sleep Medicine.

One of the biggest controversial health issue in the world of medicine is if prescription drugs should be directly advertised to consumers or kept between the physician and drug company. This website not only provides insight to how presciption drugs were handled in the past, but also the pros and cons of advertising them directly to the consumer.

This website has information on all types of certification from personal trainer to triathlon coach. It is a good resource for those involved in exercise science and sports medicine.

Carolina Sports Medicine is a group in Wilmington, NC that specializes in rehabilitation of injuries to athletes and to the general public. It is very well known and highly recommended here in Wilmington. Contact information and services provided are easily found on the site.

This is a site for my PLN. It has everything from sports medicine, arthroscopy, rehabilitation, therapy, and technology.

This is a site for my PLN. It will narrow down your search to branches of medicine in a tab on the side. Very easy site to navigate and use.

This cite gives a Physical Therapy worksheet for knee exercises that can, and should be progressively done throughout the rehabilitation process. Not only shows with a picture how the activity should be done, but also gives a description of the proper way to go about performing the exercise.

This is a very interesting brochure that has a link to the University of Calgary website that explains their views on sports medicine. The brochure gives information about the schools programs that focuses on strength, agility, and balance which are all key components in avoiding injury.