Best Online Health Sites

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Dec 29, 2008

Health gurus have created websites that can help you do everything from counting the calories in your favorite snack to searching running trails around the globe.

The web is loaded with health sites--some useful, some not so much. Here are some personal favorites that make better health only a click away:

Plan a Week's-Worth of Meals

This site posts a recipe for every day of the week side-by-side with simple ingredient lists. Click on the ones you don't have on hand to generate a printable grocery list.

Buy the Best Bottle

Read user-generated reviews and get personalized recommendations for every occasion. You can even keep a wine journal to remember your faves for the future.

Eat Locally

Search by zip code to find restaurants and stores that sell locally grown and produced foods in your area.

Make a Last-Minute Meal

Think there's nothing in your kitchen? List your scraps onto the site and, tada, the site gives you a list of meals you can make with what you've got.

Count Calories Without the Work

Type in what you want to eat and the site will tell you how many calories are in it. Available for restaurant food, candy, and at-home recipes, the site also monitors other nutritional factors to take the guessing out of monitoring your health. Just don't blame the messenger. It's there to help.

Create an Exercise Playlist

The best songs for high-intensity aerobic exercise should hit between 120 and 150 beats per minute. To find out if a song falls within range, cue it up and click your mouse to the beat. The site will measure the song's tempo in real time.

Chart Your Progress

Check out the list of common aerobic and anaerobic exercises to count the calories burned during your favorite activities. The might not be exact, but they'll give you a pretty good idea of how you are burning off that cheesecake.

Run Wherever You Are

Search this database for running routes around the world. Displayed on a Google map, you can sort the trails by length, difficulty, and whatever else you choose.

Shop for New Fitness Gear

Choose a goal (jump higher, improve overall fitness), and this site suggests the best gear. Want to run faster? The dual resistance harness will help you do it.

Be One With Nature

Constantly updated with the latest in environmental news, products, and celebrity gossip, going green has never been so cool.

Shop 'Til You Drop

Search more than 66,000 products according to health, environmental, and social welfare ratings. You can even add the application from iTunes to find great goodies wherever you go.

Avoid Drug Interactions

Plug in your current medications, click "check interactions," and you'll get a comprehensive list of every drug, vitamin, and supplement that could interfere with it. Plus, you can also search for interactions with food and alcohol.

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