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Internet Links for Health and Wellness Resources for WellNS

Stay Healthy
www.healthfinder.gov

Tobacco
www.smokefree.gov
www.cancer.org

Screening Tests
http://women.webmd.com/features/5-lifesaving-health-care-screening-tests-for-women

Flu
www.cdc.gov/flu

Living Longer
www.realage.com

Sun Exposure, Skin Cancer
www.epa.gov/sunwise

Sleep Issues
www.sleepfoundation.org

Health for Children
www.kidshealth.org

Physical Activity
www.presidentschallenge.org
http://www.mypyramid.gov/pyramid/physical_activity.html

Substance Abuse & Alcohol
www.samhsa.gov
www.drugabuse.gov
http://familydoctor.org
http://www.healthfinder.gov/prevention/ViewTopic.aspx?topicID=16

Nutrition
www.mypyramid.gov
www.nutrition.gov
www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/consumersite
www.deliciousdecisions.org
www.whfoods.com/foodstoc.php

Healthy Dining
http://www.helpguide.org/life/fast-food-nutrition.htm

Weight Management
http://www.consumer.gov/weightloss/
http://www.win.niddk.nih.gov/
www.4women.gov/faq/weightloss.htm

Stress Reduction
www.cdc.gov/niosh/stresswk.html

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Most popular sports for men and women

For Women: walking, aerobics, exercise, biking, jogging, basketball, lifting weights, golf, swimming, and tennis
For Men: golf, basketball, walking, jogging, biking, lifting weights, football, hiking, fishing, and hunting Source: The Leisure Trends Group.

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Best snacks

from the Good Housekeeping Institute’s Nutrition Director, Delia A. Hammock, M.S., R.D.

Sweet Treats for only 100 calories

5 Nabisco Nilla Wafers
1 Whole Foods Market Two-Bite Brownie
1 Healthy Choice Mocha Fudge Swirl Bar
9 Tootsie Roll Midgees
1 pouch Keebler Sandies Right Bites Shortbread Cookies
1/2 cup Sharon’s Lemon Sorbet with 1/4 cup blueberries
1 Skinny Cow Fat Free Fudge Bar
1 Nestlé Butterfinger Stixx
12 vanilla Miss Meringue Minis
4 Country Choice Certified Organic Ginger Snaps
1 Vitamuffin Vitatop

Savory Bites

29 pistachios
60 Pepperidge Farm Baby Goldfish Crackers
1 Jolly Time Healthy Pop 100 Calorie Mini Bag popcorn
25 EatSmart Café Fries
12 Back to Nature Sesame Ginger Rice Thins
12 Quaker Quakes Cheddar Cheese Rice Snacks
40 Rold Gold Classic Style Pretzel Sticks

Dairy Delights

Laughing Cow Light Creamy Garlic & Herb cheese wedge and 3 Triscuits
1 Kraft Polly-O Superlong Twist-Ums string cheese stick
1 Yoplait Light Smoothie
1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese with 5 strawberries

Hearty Helpings

Campbell’s Soup at Hand Blended Vegetable Medley
1 hard-boiled egg with 1 slice Melba toast
4 slices Sara Lee Honey Ham with 2 teaspoons honey mustard, rolled in lettuce leaf
1/2 mini bagel with 1 ounce smoked salmon

Fruits & veggies

cups raspberries
28 grapes
1 cup blueberries
1 cup mango chunks
1/2 medium cantaloupe
15 strawberries dipped in 1/4 cup Cool Whip Lite
45 steamed edamame (green soybeans)
2 tablespoons each of mashed avocado and chopped tomatoes stuffed in 1/2 mini pita
1/2 red bell pepper dipped in 3 tablespoons hummus

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