Internet Activities

1. Explore a Web Site and Use a Search Engine
Learn more about using the Internet by exploring a health-related Web site and using a search engine to locate information on a specific health topic of your choice; guidelines for evaluating the reliability of health-related Web sites are included.

2. Online Wellness Assessments
Choose and take an online wellness assessment, and assess its usefulness for behavior change.

3. Healthy People 2010
Visit the Web site of the Healthy People 2010 report, and do a search for objectives that relate to your target behaviors.

4. Fitness Glossary
Explore common fitness terms heard at your local gym.

5. Fitness Profile
Evaluate your current level of fitness and discover methods on how to improve your level.

6. Fitness Activities
Learn more about different fitness activities and how you can use them in your own life.

7. Cardiovascular Fitness
Explore different types of cardiovascular fitness and apply them to your own fitness program.

8. Target Heart Rate
Calculate your current heart rate and target heart rate, and explore ways to improve your cardiovascular endurance.

9. Healthy Heart Workout
Learn from the American Heart Association how to get started on your own healthy heart workout.

10. Strength Training
Discover the benefits of strength training and learn how to incorporate it into your own fitness program.

11. Weight Training
Explore information and videos on a variety of weight training exercises.

12. Training Program
Create a personalized weight training program.

13. Flexibility
Learn additional information about flexibility from a variety of sites.

14. Stretching and Flexibility
Explore different stretching techniques in order to improve your flexibility.

15. Flexibility Training
Discover exercises to include in your flexibility training.

16. Determining Body Mass Index (BMI)
Determine your current BMI, and describe online weight management resources.

17. Lifestyle Management of Diabetes
Research how diet and exercise can be used to manage diabetes, and identify some of the ways you would have to change your lifestyle if you were diagnosed with diabetes.

18. Essential Fatty Acids
Learn more about essential fatty acids and the role they play in your body.

19. Information on Fitness Activities
Search for and evaluate online resources for one of the activities in your personal fitness program.

20. Fitness Assessment and Program Planning
Evaluate an online resource for assessing current fitness levels and planning a fitness program.

21. Online Fitness Program Planning
Create an online customized fitness program.

22. Alternate Food Pyramids
Locate and describe one of the many variations on the basic USDA Food Guide Pyramid.

23. Online Nutrition Analysis
Use an online food composition analysis tool to learn more about the nutrients found in one of your favorite foods.

24. Daily Calcium Intake for Osteoporosis Prevention
Calculate your daily calcium intake, and compare it to the recommended total for your age and sex.

25. Dietary Supplements
Learn more about a particular dietary supplement by locating and describing a pertinent research study and by searching for reports of adverse effects.

26. Strategies for Improving Your Diet
Choose an area of special concern relating to your diet, and research strategies for improving your eating habits.

27. Body Image/Eating Disorders
Assess your current body image, and locate resources for preventing the development of eating disorders or helping a friend or family member who has an eating disorder.

28. Eating Habits
Evaluate your eating habits and assess where modifications might be made.

29. Building Social Support
Locate online resources for organizations and people who share your hobbies and interests.

30. Sleep
Visit sleep-related Web sites, and identify strategies for obtaining adequate sleep.

31. Relaxation Techniques
Search for a site providing information on a relaxation technique, and assess the site’s usefulness and reliability.

32. Online Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment
Take an online CVD or stroke risk assessment, and describe recommendations to reduce your risk.

33. Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease
Research lifestyle strategies for preventing or controlling a CVD risk factor.

34. Forms of Cardiovascular Disease
Search for information about a particular form of CVD—its risk factors, effects/symptoms, and treatments.

35. Research a Type of Cancer or a Risk Factor
Locate Web sites that provide information about a particular type of cancer or a specific cancer risk factor.

36. UV Index
Determine the current UV index and the yearly UV index pattern for your area.

37. Diet and Cancer: Five a Day—For Better Health
Identify strategies for increasing your daily consumption of fruits and vegetables.

38. Psychoactive Drugs
Research a psychoactive drug to learn more about its short- and long-term effects.

39. Preventing Drunk Driving
Identify strategies for preventing injuries from drunk driving.

40. College Students and Alcohol
Identify problems associated with alcohol use among college students, and research possible strategies for preventing alcohol-associated problems on campus.

41. For Smokers: Resources for Quitting
Visit and evaluate a Web site that contains resources for smokers who want to quit.

42. Online STDs Risk Assessment
Take an anonymous online HIV/STDs screening test, and assess its usefulness.

43. STDs Prevention/Recent Advances
Search for information on either safer sex strategies or a recent development in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, or testing.

44. Compare Your Family with the Average U.S. Family
Visit the Web site for the Census Bureau, and discover how characteristics of your family compare to the national average.

45. Challenges of Aging
Identify strategies for preventing and coping with a wellness-related challenge of aging such as arthritis or Alzheimer’s disease.

46. Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medications
Research a prescription or OTC drug to learn more about how to use it safely and effectively.

47. Alternative Therapies
Learn more about a particular alternative therapy by locating and describing a pertinent research study and by searching other resources for consumer-oriented advice.

48. Environmental Health Puzzles
Complete an online puzzle or quiz related to environmental health, and assess its usefulness as a learning tool.

49. Environmental Health in Your Community
Search for information about pollution and other environmental health concerns in your local community.

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