| | Drive Through Diet.
This site is maintained by Wake Forest University's Medical Center. Click
on the icon of a major fast food chain and place your order from their
menu. Then click "SUBMIT" and see the nutritional info for your order.
Note to Mr.Harnett's students - if you have french fries or a shake that you
aren't going to finish, let me know. I'm hungry.
http://www1.wfubmc.edu/Nutrition/Count+Your+Calories/dtd.htm
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| | BMR - Basal Metabolic Rate.
Your BMR is the bare minimum # of calories you need every day just to stay
alive. If you did nothing but lay in bed your body would still need
calories to burn for energy for heart rate, respiration, liver function,
kidney function, brain function, etc. This link allows you to calculate
your BMR. Maybe you don't need to run a mile to burn off that Coke after
all!
http://health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/basal/basal.html
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| | Body Mass Indicator.
The Body Mass Indicator or BMI is widely used as a tool to indicate how much
body fat a person is carrying. A score of 40 or more indicates a clinical
diagnosis of morbid obesity. This is NOT a calculation of body fat %. This
site, maintained by the National Institute of Health, takes great care to
stress that this formula works best for adults and acknowledges other
limitations of the formula.
http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/
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| | My Pyramid.
In the spring of 2005, the U.S. Deptartment of Agriculture changed the
dietary requirements of the traditional food pyramid. The biggest change,
in light of rising adult and child obesity rates, was the addition of an
exercise component to everyday life. The USDA has a wonderful interactive
website that details the changes and also includes games and a way to
personalize your diet/exercise lifestyle choices. I personally like the
addition of the Stairmaster to the side of the pyramid.
http://www.mypyramid.gov/
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| | National Insitute of Health.
This link takes you to the NIH's Health Information page. Once here, you
can click on a health topic alphabetically if you want to find out about a
topic - or if you were assigned to do a paper.
http://health.nih.gov/
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| | World Health Organization
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United
Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health
matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards,
articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to
countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
http://www.who.int/en/
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| | Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC is the government agency that operates in conjunction with the
National Institute of Health in order to keep the public informed about
public health risks. They have information about everything from infectious
diseases to travel destination warnings for outbreaks of disease.
http://www.cdc.gov
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| | Mental Illnesses.
This is a link to a site that gives a list of all currently recognized
mental illnesses. This ties into our Mental Illness unit in the 8th grade
curriculum. Please note that this list is much more comprehensive than the
list that we use in class. Most of the conditions on this list will NOT be
covered in the 8th grade health curriculum. Naturally, those are the first
ones that students will ask about in class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_illness_(alphabetical_list)
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| | Alcohol Screening.
This link takes you to an online quiz about your drinking habits. Note to
Mr.Harnett's students - the correct answer for you here is "I don't drink
alcohol, I'm only 13!"
http://www.alcoholscreening.org/
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| | Calorie Burner.
This is a link to Prevention magazine's online site. This site gives you a
choice of physical activities and calculates approximately how many calories
that you burn during that activity. Remember that you have to burn 3,500
calories to lose a "permanent" pound of fat. You can lose a pound by
working out with lots of sweatshirts on, but it's largely water weight that
you will soon replace.
http://www.prevention.com/caloriecalc/0,5719,s1-4-121-48-1158-1,00.html
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| | Daily Calorie Calculator.
While you're at the Prevention website, this calorie calculator lets you
determine how many calories you need in order to maintain your current body
weight. The calculator will ask for your height, weight, age, gender, and
activity level. "Sedentary" means inactive (think couch potato). "Extra
active" means you are training to win the NYC Marathon by running 20
miles/day. Most of us will fall somewhere in between.
http://www.prevention.com/dailycaloriecalc/0,5869,s1-4-121-48-0-1,00.html
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| | Calories in Food Chart.
Someone has taken the time to figure out how many calories are in different
kinds of food and has listed them alphabetically. I'm glad that he did
this, because I don't have the time to. Scroll down to the food of your
choice. Note to Mr.Harnett's students - this is one of those times in life
that I warned you about when.....spelling counts!
http://www.ntwrks.com/~mikev/chart1.html
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| | College Drinking Prevention.
Although this site is geared towards college students, the interactive icons
for "Alcohol Myths" and "Interactive Body" are applicable for all ages.
Note to Mr.Harnett's students - the correct answer is still "I don't drink
because I'm not 21 yet."
http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/students/default.aspx
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| | NJ Division of Highway Safety.
Ever wonder what happens if "your friend" gets caught driving while
drinking? Ever wonder what happens if "your friend" gets caught drinking
alcohol before s/he turns 21? Ever wonder what "your friend's parents" will
do to "your friend" if one of those 2 things happen to "your friend"? Well,
the answers to the first 2 questions can be found if you click on this
site. As for the third question.....you may not want to know the answer.
http://www.nj.gov/lps/hts/alcohol.html
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| | Holiday Turkey Recipe.
This recipe for turkey is too good to be true. Never a dry bird again!
This link will take you to the Food Network site and to Alton Brown's turkey
brine recipe. Never a dry bird again! It's fantastic! Happy holidays.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_8389,00.html
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| | Red Cross (services).
This is a link to the Red Cross' website, specifically to the page that
gives information about becoming certified in First Aid/CPR, lifeguarding,
babysitting, and other useful things that may be helpful to 8th grade
students. This ties in to our First Aid unit.
http://www.redcross.org/services/hss/
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| | BAC/BAL Calculator.
Your Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) or Blood Alcohol Level (BAL) are terms used
interchangeably. This number represents what % of alcohol is in your
bloodstream when you've been drinking alcohol. In the great state of New
Jersey, if you have a BAL of 0.08% or higher and you are pulled over by a
police officer, you will be charged with Driving While Intoxicated (DWI).
If your BAL is under 0.08%, you can be charged with Driving Under the
Influence (DUI). You should never drink alcohol and then try to drive.
http://health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/alcohol/alcohol.html
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| | Determine Your Future Height.
This link (for students - sorry Mom & Dad) can give you an estimate of how
tall you will be based on your parents' heights. Note to students - don't
complain to me that you'll only grow up to be 4'4". Go complain to Mom &
Dad. And look them directly in the knees when you do.
http://www.webmd.com/content/tools/1/calc_kid_height.htm
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| | Web MD
Web MD is one of the places that I send students when they ask questions
that I cannot answer. I.e. "How many kind of viruses are there?" "What are
the side effects of these 10 obscure drugs?" "Why don't my parents/teachers
understand me? Is something wrong with them?" (website hasn't helped on
that one)
http://www.webmd.com
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| | The Phobia List
Feel free to self-diagnose yourself into insanity with this list of phobias.
http://www.phobialist.com/#A-
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| | The American Cancer Society
Cancer is a huge health problem. NJ has the highest rates of cancer per
capita of all 50 states. The ACS does an excellent job with information.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp
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| | Evolution of a Supermodel
This 1 minute short film by Dove underscores a valuable lesson for the self
esteem of adolescents. This shows how makeup artists and computer editing
can take a girl who is not unattractive but isn't "supermodel pretty" and
change her appearance to make her beautiful enough to appear in billboard
ads. Pay attention to what the computer enhancements do to her face, neck,
and shoulders. Adolescents (and adults) need to understand that sometimes
the "ideal" images of people that we see aren't what we think they are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFPGa0pKyTg
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