Living Healthy

Recommended Websites for Living Healthy

• Taking Charge – develop a self-care plan
• MyFitnessPal.com - website and mobile apps to track what you eat and how you are exercising

a. Healthy Eating

• My Plate – the Diet Pyramid replacement
• Worlds' Healthiest Foods – including cooking videos for preparing veggies
• Fruits and Veggies – More Matters – helpful videos for preparation techniques
• Disease Proof – Nutritarian eating - blog site emphasizing research-based nutritarian approach; reviews recent findings on nutrition related to various diagnoses
• Oldways – Mediterranean diet, Latino Nutrition
• African-American style healthy foods
• Latino healthy foods
• Feeding Kids Healthy
  • Lets Move
  • Recipes from the California Department of Public Health

b. Exercise

• CDC Physical Activity
• Small Step

• Handout on meditation
• Relaxation for Chronic Pain
• Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine
• And check out many apps available for your phone, like Take a Break, Simply Being, Qi Gong Meditation, and others

• Dietary Supplement Fact Sheets
• ConsumerLab – investigates the quality of various supplements
• Drug-Supplement Interaction - investigates herb and supplement interactions with pharmaceuticals
• Pure Encapsulations - high quality hypoallergenic supplements from Pure Encapsulations with a 15% discount courtesy of Family Medicine os Southwest Washington
• Inexpensive sources:
  • Iherb.com
  • Vitacost.com
  • Pacific Botanicals for bulk herbs

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