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Keep Your New Year's Resolution
books and links in January 2002 |
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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is
so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
---Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), British novelist, poet. Far from the Madding Crowd,
ch. 18 (1874).
The New Year is a traditional time to make a
resolution to give up a vice or improve one's self. Although there are
many vices available, this web page is focusing on five garden
varieties. Maybe this could be your year to:
Whichever you pick, good luck!
Improve Nutrition and Diet
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Weight Loss Index
This site is dedicated to those of you fighting the battle of the bulge! Here you will find free
tools, guides, support and information to help you along your journey to lose that extra weight!
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Diet Information
An information-only web site providing sensible advice on diet, weight loss and
nutrition, not from experts but humorous and practical information
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FATFREE: The Low Fat Vegetarian Recipe Archive
This archive has 4,667 fat free and very low fat vegetarian recipes as well as information about healthy very low
fat vegetarian diets. But you don't have to be vegetarian or eat low fat all the time to enjoy one of these recipes. Browse and
enjoy!
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Anita's Tried and
True Recipes
Anita message - I have personally tried each and every recipe posted on this site. In almost all cases, I have modified the original recipes in
an attempt to reduce the fat while still preserving the flavor. As a result, most of these recipes are low-fat containing less than thirty
percent calories from fat. I've kept only those recipes which my husband and I feel taste good (you don't want to try the failures). We
hope you enjoy the recipes as much as we have!
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Fad
Diet Information from About.com
Reviews for and against high protein, low carbohydrate diets. Learn about gimmicks like the Mayo Clinic Diet and American Heart
Association Diet.
Improve Physical Fitness
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Just Move from
the American Heart Association
Features a personal exercise diary, the latest fitness news, and advice for
starting a fitness program based on your current fitness level.
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Canada's
Physical Activity Guide
Sponsored by the Canadian government, this site features many useful fitness
tips and facts. Available in English for French.
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Health
and Fitness Page
Features articles on determining an exercise program to meet your needs,
changing to low fat cooking, metabolism, and warming up and cooling down by
a long-time aerobics instructor.
Have Less Stress
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Stress Management
and Emotional Wellness Links
A plethora of resources on stress, stress management,
time management, relaxation techniques, workplace stress, and
emotional self-help links. Includes listings of commercial
vendors but the advertising is limited.
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How
to Master Stress
Practical, if less than in-depth, advice on beating
stress.
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Stress
Assess
From the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point -
"Stress assess is an educational tool designed to enhance your knowledge about stress. It is not a clinical instrument or diagnostic
tool. The program will evaluate your current stress sources, distress symptoms and lifestyle behaviors. Based on your personalized
assessment, you can learn healthy and effective strategies to balance the stress in your
life".
Quit Smoking
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Great
American Smokeout and Quitting
Tips
From the American Cancer Society. Tips to stop smoking on both these
helpful pages.
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CDC's Tobacco Information & Prevention Sourcepage
From the Center for Disease Control. Includes an
overview with tobacco information and links, Surgeon General's Reports,
other research, data, and facts, quits to help quit smoking, education
materials, and many other anti-smoking resources.
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World Health
Organization Tobacco Free Initiative
A worldwide effort against tobacco.
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thetruth.com
Features both a html and Flash gateway into the
site. A hip site geared towards today's youth that exposes the
truth about the shady practices of the tobacco industry, the adverse
effects of tobacco and links to many other anti-tobacco sites.
Quit Caffeine
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Kick
the Caffeine Habit
From Healthwell.com, a short articles featuring the
adverse effects of caffeine and suggestions on how to quit.
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Caffeine's
Effects on Health
From Go Ask Alice - A good summary of the pros and cons
of caffeine use.
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Caffeine
Information
From McKinley Health Center at University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, a short article on the evils of caffeine.
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