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James Cook

American College of Sports Medicine - 1 views

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    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.
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    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.
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    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
James Cook

Journal of Applied Physiology - 0 views

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    The website for the Journal of Applied Physiology provides current issues and archives for a limitless number of experiments. It is very helpful and I have used it several times.
James Cook

National Strength and Conditioning Association - 0 views

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    This is the website for the National Strength and Conditioning Association, it provides tons of information about strength and conditioning, this is also where you would go if you were interested in becoming a certified strength and conditioning coach.
James Cook

Muscle and Fitness - 0 views

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    This is a good website for anyone who is pretty serious into weight training and/or bodybuilding. It has alot of solid information on a how to structure your training and how to put together a good diet to achieve your goals.
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    This website provides pages upon pages of workouts and nutritional information. There are workouts for ever muscle group and nutritional info for any fitness goal, whether it is to lose body fat or put on muscle. It also contains blogs and discussion forums.
James Cook

My Pyramid - 0 views

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    This provides lots of great information on eating healthy- what foods are best for you and the proper amount of servings to eat. It can also help you analyze your dietary needs and provides you with the choice to personalize a healthy eating plan.
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    It also tells your the daily amount you need to be eating and exercising on a generic scale which is really helpful! You can also find percentage data and common information on the health of the American population!
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    This site provides healthy dietary guidelines based on the new food pyramid, it provides different recommendations for specific age groups and populations. I often refer my personal training clients to this website.
Kristen Vaudrin

Food and Drug Administration - 0 views

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    this website is very useful when protecting and promoting health. On this website the users can find information on dietary supplements to vaccination information.
Jasmin Stover

Healthier Shopping List - 0 views

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    This is a shopping list that can be used as a guideline for a healthy household. It has healthy foods and beverages that can help someone be better nutritionally. This is actually really good and I think I might use it myself.
Jasmin Stover

Dietary Supplements - 0 views

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    Those individuals concerned with what supplements do and are used for can look them up alphabetically. The website sends you to other websites with clear definitions of the particular supplement.
Jasmin Stover

Food Safety - 0 views

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    Food safety is something everyone should be big on. Who wants to eat something that has spoiled or can make you sick because it was not processed correctly? This website keeps you updated on food recalls and food born illnesses. You can ask questions and look up answers to questions you have. They have a blog and you can get a RSS feed of the website
Jasmin Stover

Nutrition Assistance Programs - 0 views

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    This website, under the Department of Agriculture believes that no ones deserves to go hungry or uneducated about the food they eat. The website can help you with figuring out a healthy diet and help find nutrition assistant programs.
Jasmin Stover

Dietary Guidelines for Americans - 0 views

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    This website has the dietary guidelines for Americans as stated by the government. you can download the whole book or look at individual chapters that consist of all the guidelines one should follow to be completely healthy according to government standards.
Jasmin Stover

Calorie Counter - 0 views

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    This website can be used to help someone count the calories of a particular food. The counter has all food categories in its drop down menu. It is a simple counter and if you would like something more in depth I am sure you could search Google for one.
Alan Sestito

Baseball's Steroid Era - 0 views

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    This site gives a good outline of when the whole steroid era in baseball all began. It is very interesting and gives good descriptions of what players admitting to it and why it is against the rules.
Jasmin Stover

Nutrition in Texas Schools - 0 views

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    Because of childhood obesity becoming a very big topic in society today, schools in the state where I graduated high school are restricting and even eliminating the use of vending machines in schools. This minimizes access to junk food to children during the school day. If children are having access to chips and soda, it is at home and occurring because a parent gave permission.
Jasmin Stover

Nike V.S. New Balance - 0 views

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    I feel like this is a controversial topic because a lot of people are fans of both brands. I myself have had to choose between Nike or New Balance. Which is the better running shoe? Personally I think New Balance is. However, we all know Nike running shoes are a lot more stylish and trendy.
Jasmin Stover

Australian Exercise and Sports Science Association - 0 views

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    This is an exercise and sports science organization rooted in Australia. There mission is to make sure those in the profession are taken care of and have a clear career path.
Alan Sestito

NFL Hits the Rule Book (Controversial) - 0 views

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    This site is letting the public know about the recent controversy of head-to-head contact hits that the NFL is trying to crack down on. These hits are causing more and more serious concussions and the NFL has now put into their rule book the penalties if these hits continue by any player. They are trying to prevent the number of head/neck/spine injuries that NFL players are having.
Jasmin Stover

Product (RED) - 1 views

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    (RED) is an organization founded by Bono that helps with the fight against AIDS. They have teamed up with a lot of brands to raise money for the Global Fund. I have been a big fan of this org and am extremely passionate about awareness and the prevention of HIV/AIDS
Alan Sestito

Carolina Sports Med.- Physical Therapy - 0 views

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    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.
Alan Sestito

Safe Kids USA (Organization) - 0 views

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    Safe Kids USA is a nationwide network of organizations working to prevent unintentional childhood injury. This site offers programs, education, and researching latest techniques to try and help prevention of injuries for kids ages 11-14. The site is easy to find info about a Safe Kids program in your state.
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