Online Resources

Health

BBC Health
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/
Tips to keep healthy from the BBC. Includes a men's health section, a healthy heart section and an A-Z of illnesses and medical conditions. There is also information and advice on relationships. nutrition, fitness and exercise. There are lots of fun online health quizes and you can also find out your body mass with an online BMI calculator. Recommended!

Healthy Living
http://www.healthyliving.gov.uk/
An easy to read and informative website to promote Scotlands healthy living programme. There are some online quizzes to help you assess how healthy your diet is and how active you really are. The website also contains top tips on healthy eating and physical activity. You can find recipes, meal ideas and suggestions for being physically active.

FreeSkills
http://tutorials.freeskills.com/v2l/healthyliving/vid/relweb
Healthy Living is a 90 hour FREE online course. It will challenge you to adopt a healthier lifestyle, develop a fitness plan to suit you and measure and improve your personal fitness. The course includes two online study units, packed with healthy hints and tips as well as quizzes and recaps. When you successfully complete the course you'll receive an accredited qualification - the NCFE Foundation Certificate in Exercise Studies

British Heart Foundation
http://www.bhf.org.uk
Information about maintaining a healthy heart from the British Heart Foundation. Find out about different heart conditions, how the heart works and treatments for those with heart disease. There are also explanations of medical terms related to the heart.

Cool Food
http://www.coolfoodplanet.org/
Tips for good nutrition and getting fit along with some fun online quizes. Also contains food safety advice, a section on food and emotions. The site is aimed at school children and there are lots of fancy graphics which may take a long time to download if you don't have a fast Internet connection.

Food Fitness
http://www.foodfitness.org.uk
An attractive site, aimed at parents and teachers and all those promoting a healthy lifestyle to children. Try the games section. It contains some fun online quizes which children will love.

Lifebytes
http://www.lifebytes.gov.uk/indexmenu.html
An very attractive site aimed at youngsters and teachers. Lots of information on alchohol, drugs, emotional wellbeing, healthy eating, smoking and relationships. The site is fun to look at with lots of interactive quizes and activities. A lot of the quizes are not easy to find in the site so you really need to explore the site to get the most out of it. Recommended!

Medline Plus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html
This American site contains some excellent interactive online tutorials. Covers a huge variety of health problems from acne to Rheumatoid Arthritis. The tutorial use animated graphics and easy- to-read language to explain a condition.

NHS Direct
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/
Includes a health encyclopaedia and a self help guide which gives advice on a range of common symptoms. A very useful resource.

Best Treatments
http://www.besttreatments.co.uk/btuk/home.html
A really excellent website that can help you understand how treatments work and help you decide which treatments are best for you. The information comes from the British Medical Journal but they have been re-written without the jargon. Very informatative easy to understand.