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Shape Up America

This site is designed to provide you with the latest information about safe weight management and physical fitness from Dr. C. Everett Koop.


Cool Tools

This site is full of tools to help you calculate your unique target health statistics, like your energy expenditure, your target heart rate and body mass index.

The Internet's Fitness Resource

Called "grandmother of all fitness links sites," this site has pathways to almost any type of exercise information or fitness site.

World Fitness

This site not only offers free information, but also offers free answers from professional trainers for your questions.

On-Line to Fitness

This site calls itself "the complete guide to total fitness," and it strives to achieve this by offering tips and guidance on weight loss, strength training, nutrition and more. This site offers free info as well as commercial advertising.

Sportfit.com

A very slickly packaged site which offers free tips, commends and links on fitness, but also has something to sell you as well. Despite its obvious commercial intentions, this is a great site.

Healthy Weight

This site offers a Body Mass Index calculator, which will tell you whether or not you need to diet, as well as a weight management guide and fitness news.

Duke University Health and Fitness Center

This page provides information on Duke's version of the SRC, but it also provides worthy information about general fitness.

Consumer Information Catalog: Health

This government-sponsored sie provides several text versions of pamplets and documents which provide important health information.

World of Fitness

A very elaborate links site for fitness trainers.

US Department of Health and Human Services

This is the site of the Federal Government's most health-focused agency.
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This site was created especially for students of the UNC School of Journalism's
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