Health

Browse hundreds of pages of informative coffee materials adapted from Kenneth Davids' books. Includes a section on coffee and health.

Answers to questions about the effects of coffee on health, provided by the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee.

Information about research, uses, side effects, and cautions, from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatricians that infants not be given milk. Includes suggested daily consumption of dairy products for infants, children, and adults.

Information about weight management and development of their personalized weight loss programs. Includes links to clinical research studies, and contact information. Located in California, United States.

Offers treatment for obesity at several Florida locations.

Offers testing for Adenovirus 36 (Adv36) that causes obesity and a variety of complications associated with obesity.

Site detailing a personal journey to lose 60 pounds, includes pictures and motivation.

A website for women to share their weight loss experiences.

Site features a group of people that need to lose at least one hundred pounds. Includes journals and links.

An overweight guy logging his daily struggles in losing 60 lbs.

Information on how to pursue better health, overcome health challenges, lose weight and feel better.

Doris captures her weight loss journey in this online diary.

Dispels the myth that eating later in the day is more likely to cause weight gain.

Provides weight loss solutions through education. Offers articles on exercise, diet, fitness, weight loss tips, and metabolism.

Food and medical information, and recipes, from a physician and professionally trained chef.

Provides diet information including low carb diets, diet reviews, and other health information.

Find information about and calculate your Body Mass Index.

Subscription service provides information about safe weight management and physical fitness. Includes support, BMI information, and recipes.

Information on menopause and resources, including books.

Offers a discussion about this change in a woman's life. Includes perimenopause, contraception, management, and the postmenopause.

Offers advice a woman needs about periods, menstruation, health and well being, and PMS. Includes maternity and menopause.

Calculate your own Body Mass Index and compare yourself to other women.

Seeking to improve the health of women through research, education and advocacy. Includes membership details and information about research and funding. Based in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

Resources on various women's health topics from abortions to menopause, links to relevant sites, local and national.

Offers information about sexuality, STD symptoms, and emergency contraception.

Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.

Matched Birth and Death Certificate data tell a grim tale, and a short discussion gives the story behind the data.

A paper on addiction to massive multiplayer online games by Nick Yee.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. Part of (NIH) National Institutes of Health.

Offers a number of different drug test services, including in home tests.

A nationally accredited drug and alcohol program by DATIA.

Occupational medicine physician provides advice, information and forums on workplace drug and alcohol testing.

CAADE serves College and University programs in California. The organization also sponsors an annual conference where state-of-the-art alcohol and drug training issues and information is shared.

A virtual network for the scientific study of addiction and for the application of information derived from scientific analysis to the problems of addiction.

Promotes standards in the administration of workplace substance abuse prevention programs through education and training.

Alcoholism Council of the Cincinnati Area-NCADD, promotes the prevention and treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction through advocacy and education.

Insights about alcoholism from therapist and spiritual teacher.

California-based service provides sober coaches to help avoid relapse, available in several states. Accepting treatment professionals to match with clients.

Professional service provides telephone and in-person coaching to help avoid relapse into alcohol or drug use, with pages on crisis and intervention.

A group for recovering pagans in 12-step recovery: AA, NA, OA, and DA. This group will focus on working the 12 steps and supporting each other in recovery.

A WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on global tobacco use and problems caused by that use.

Medical facts on the physiology of nicotine addiction, and the effect tobacco products have on the brain, lungs, and other vital organs, and a treatment options section.

A substance abuse treatment resource focusing on current substance abuse trends and treatment protocols.

Provides details of founder, specialties, and successes. California.

Resources on the ancient art of harmonizing the body, mind and spirit with gentle touch. Maintained by Ron Hodges, Boston, Massachusetts.

Eight-weekend program in Japanese acupuncture offered to licensed acupuncturists and third year acupuncture students. Class locations worldwide.

A look at the basis of traditional Chinese medicine, from the point of view of someone who grew up with it.

SAR is a charitable research organization promoting scientific inquiries into clinical efficacy, physiological mechanisms, patterns of use, and theoretical foundations. Washington, DC.

Professional organization for Doctors of Chinese medicine, acupuncturists, herbalists, and other practitioners of Chinese medicine.