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Nutrition, Health & Heart Disease
This website provides information about nutrition, health, and heart disease. It also discusses specific types of vitamin and mineral supplements you can take to improve or maintain your health.
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Story md.com: Wellness and Nutrition: Fats
Fats are part of a larger family of molecules known as lipids. Lipids occur naturally in your body and can also be ingested through the foods in your diet. Which fats are healthy and which should you avoid? The answer may surprise you.
New York State Dept. of Health
New York State Department of Health: Cardiovascular Disease
Use this resource to learn how proper nutrition and diet play a role in preventing heart disease. Provides facts and figures on causes, costs, and risk factors for the disease.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Hypoglycemia
Thorough overview of this condition often associated with diabetes. Includes information on symptoms, treatment, prevention, and more.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Atherosclerosis
Thorough overview of atherosclerosis. Includes information on symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and much more.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Spot a Fad Diet
Conventional wisdom about diets, including government health recommendations, seems to change all the time. And yet ads routinely come out claiming to have THE answer about what we should eat. So how do we distinguish what's actually...
Harvard University
Harvard School of Public Health: The Nutrition Source: Fiber
Why is fiber important to our diets? How can we get the fiber we need from the food we eat? In addition to answering the above questions, this website also describes the diseases and disorders we can avoid by eating fiber-rich foods.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: High Cholesterol
Thorough overview of high cholesterol. Includes information on symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and much more.
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American Diabetes Association: Food and Fitness: What Can I Eat: Eating Out
Learn to make low fat, low sugar, and low sodium food choices, even when eating out. This guide serves as a helpful tool not only for diabetics who need to control their blood glucose levels, but for anyone seeking to eat healthfully,...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Dick Gregory
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Dick Gregory, an African-American comedian, civil rights activist, and spokesman for health issues, who became nationally recognized in the 1960s for a biting brand of comedy that attacked...