Breakthroughs in Health and Fitness
Dr. Mirkin is one busy guy, what with his daily radio health tips, newsletter, video course, and fitness clinic. At his site, you can read his tips, search a file of articles on practical health matters ("Health Benefits in Food, Not Supplements"). There's a helpful link to lots of fat-free recipes for entrees, soups, and desserts. But wait, there's more: You can also order his videos, books, and his very own collection of spice blends for cooking. If he doctors as well as he markets, we're in good shape (or will be).-KW
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Internet Athlete
I'm afraid the Internet Athlete, "your worldwide source for athletic information," is down for the count. It's supposed to be a place where runners, swimmers, bikers, and triathletes find out about upcoming races and results, teams, features articles, and the inevitable products - but nothing is open past the top level. Worse yet, the latest date on the page is July 1995. Folks: We would gladly trade a nice clean home page for some gritty, useful information. You did it backwards, and we have no reason to visit.-KW
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The Good Health Web
The good folks at Good Health offer you a no-frills site, with a good amount of well-organized information. You can link to newsgroups on illnesses and preventive health care and health FAQs (AIDS, migraines, typing injury). There's a searchable database of a thousand health organizations, and a helpful clutch of health care mailing lists you can subscribe to. Best link of all is "Interesting Sites," which takes you to several government agencies (HHS, FDA, CDC) and other meta-pages. Good job, Good Health.-KW
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The Weight lifting Page
Power lifting, Olympic weight training, hardgaining: this is an excellent place to get inspired - or at least be impressed by the passion of the Seriously Muscled. This well-organized site contains lots of links to e-mail lists and FAQs on exercising, training, the ever-challenging abdominal muscles, and more. You can find lots of nutrition and diet info geared to the serious lifter, as are many links for diet supplements, vitamins, and the powdered food forms they favor. A few gyms have pages, and the personal pages feature lots of GIFs of major muscular magnitude.-KW
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To Your Health
Dr. Art Ulene, who gained fame as the ever-calm and sensible doctor on "The Today Show," hosts a handsome page with good intentions, but there's very little there. For one thing, it hasn't been updated in months. The weight loss tips are, well, lame ("Go to the salad bar at a fast food restaurant... stretch a glass of wine by mixing in 50 percent seltzer to make a spritzer." Doesn't everyone already know this stuff?!). There are nutrition "strategies" that may be useful, but they're loaded with typos. Come on, Dr. Art - we thought we could trust you.-KW
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