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"Proper nutrition is the foundation of good health and recovery.
Cooking classes, meals, and cookbooks all demonstrate the variety
appeal, and satisfaction of whole plant food vegetarian cuisine.
In addition physicians explain the issues that link nutrition with
health or disease in their lectures."
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NEWSTART Lifestyle Program
"Action is a law of life. Muscle tone and strength are lost without
exertion, but exercise improves the health of body, mind, and spirit
multiplying vitality and health.
Exercise therapy includes outdoor exercise, treadmill evaluations and
Stretchercise. The many trails through beautiful surroundings beckon
you to walk, walk, walk, but indoor exercise equipment is available."
"Because the body is 70% water, keeping well hydrated and knowing what
and when to drink are essential to health.
Hydrotherapy (water applied externally to the body) followed by massage
enhances the circulation and immune system in wonderful ways."
"The sun is the established energy source ordained by God to sustain the
cycle of life for plants and animals. Abundant in California, sunlight is
supremely important for the body.s metabolism and hormonal balance."
"Using good things moderately and avoiding the bad is obviously wise,
yet often hard to practice. Temperance can be neither bought nor earned,
but is rather an important gift of God, a .fruit of the Spirit.
(Galatians 5:22, 23). Moderation in all things is a thread woven throughout
the fabric of NEWSTART® Lifestyle programs."
"The body.s most essential resource is air. More important than food or water,
proper breathing and pure air are fundamental to good health.
Fresh, clear mountain air surrounds the beautiful natural environment of
Weimar Institute."
"Restoration requires rest because sleep allows the body to renew itself.
Many types of rest are important for health, but the sweetest rest follows
labor. .Early to bed and early to rise. is a vital NEWSTART® principle,
and a healthy lifestyle makes this principle easier to maintain."
"Directly linked to physical health (Proverbs 3:5-6), trust in God is a gift
leading to right choices."
HealthNet
Uchee Pines Institute
Weimar Institute
Wildwood Lifestyle Center
Healthopedia.Com
HelathAllRefer.Com
National Library of Medicine
- Health information: MEDLINE/PubMed
MEDLINE/plus | NLM Gateway Databases | Publications | Grants
Healthfinder.gov -
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
noah-helath.org -
Health Topics | Word Search | What's New
N L M
Guide - a database for medical research
MEDLINEplus.gov -
Health Topics | Drug Information | Dictionaries
Directories | Current Health News | Featured Web Site
CNN Health with
WebMD
National Institute of Health
Mayo Clinic
Medical images on the Web
- U. of Nebraska, Medical CenterIncredible: one Web site you may ever need !!!
Atlas of Dermatology
M E G A S I T E
Center for Disease Control
and Prevention Find comprehensive,
current health information on a wide range of diseases and health
concerns
under .
Those planning trips can check
Traveler's Health.
Click on the
CDC Fact Book to learn the latest
activities to promote
good health.
A Spanish version is also available. [ LJ Ap15'01 ]
P R O D U C T P A C K A G E I N S E R T S
(labeling!)
- Druginfonet
Those who maintain this Web site have scanned in both
the official package insert and the patient package insert. - FDA It lists drug labeling
information for drugs approved since 1998,
as well as consumer-friendly versions; new drug approvals; and
discussion of items currently in the news.
P R E S C R I P T I O N D R U G S
- Rxlist Created by a
hospital pharmacist. This well-respected site contains
the same drug monographs that appear in Mosby's GenRx.
In addition to therapeutic information, other useful information is given, such
as the annual cost of taking the drug and brand names under which the drug
may be sold in other countries.
Excellent monographs for patients, in both English and Spanish, are found here.
You can also identify a pill here by entering its imprint code. There are a small,
but very good, number of monographs on herbals. - Drug Facts and Comparison
This highly respected publication, known
generally only to pharmacists, examines drugs within a particular class -- say,
antidepressants or calcium channel blockers -- and compares their therapeutic
action, dosage, precautions, and drug interactions.
By registering on their site, you may access an abridged version of the
publication at no cost; access to the complete version is by paid subscription
only.
There is a consumer section with good monographs. There is also a drug
interaction index, as well as drug quizzes for the health professional.
I L L E G A L D R U G S
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
This is a nicely designed site with clearly
marked sections for health professsionals, parents and teachers, and students.
Includes research reports, statistics, directories of street names for drugs. - C E S A R
(Center for Substance Abuse Research) Located at the Universitiy
of Maryland, this site is good for basic information and numerous charts as well as
statistics. - Drug Enforcement Administration
This Web site contains a listing of "drugs
of concern," as well as access schedules of controlled substances and statistics,
such as the number of meth lab seizures over the last decade.
H E R B S / N A T U R A L P R O D U C T S
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Longwood Herbal Task Force
This joint effort of Boston's Children Hospital,
Massachsetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science.
The Dana Farber Cancer Institute, maintains on of the best herbal Web sites.
Included are here lengthy monographs that link claims with the scientific evidence
as well as leaflets for both clinicians and patients.
Its only drawback is that the number of herbals covered is limited. - HerbMed The Alternative
Medicine Faoundation, a nonprofit organization
located in Bethesda, has created this useful database, which contains summaries of
published studies done with commonly used botanicals, with links to the articles'
abstracts in PubMed. Adverse effects are linked to the FDA's adverse events reports.This is the part of the National Institute of Health that sponsors
research on complimentary and alternative medicine.
At this site, you'll find fact sheets on natural products and also "consensus reports,"
summaries of conferences that came to conclusions about the use of certain
alternative medicines. - I B I D S
(International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Suppements)
This bibliographic database of "published, international scientific literature on
dietary supplements, including vitamines, minerals, and botanicals."
You may choose to search the full database of for consumer references or
peer-reviewed journals only. - Consumerlabs One of the
difficulties with herbals is that often the product that
you buy may contain little of the active ingredient. Consumerlabs tests natural products
to see what they actually contain; some of their results are available for nonsubscribers. - MEDICAL BOTANY
For those who want to learn about natural products
themselves, there is a mini-course by James A. Duke, one of the gurus on the use of
herbals. This site contains his actual lecture notes.
S T A T I S T I C S
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Drug Topics Very often
students seek statistics on the use or sales of prescription
drugs. Once a year, a marketing firm, IMS America, does a National Prescription Audit,
sampling the number of prescriptions per drug. Some of the results can be found on the
Drug Topics site, a pharmacy trade magazine. Its "Pharmacy Facts and Figures" lists the
top 200 brand-name and genetic drugs, both by number of prescriptions and by retail
sales.-
* "Internet Recources"
C & RL News, July / August 2001 p701
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Wolfhard Touchard, M.L.S. Retired Reference & Database Librarian Andrews University - February 2012 |