Health Resources list:
www.healthstatus.com membership (free); individual assessments for cardiac, diabetes, fitness, health risk (habits), general health assessment, general well-being; calculators for various things (including calories burned), ideal weight, costs of smoking, etc.
www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu
individualized risk assessment with specific graphs on risk improvement with changes in lifestyle: cancer by specific type, diabetes, cardiac disease, osteoporosis, stroke
http://hip.stanford.edu/ website links to others with subscription access inc.
http://hprc.stanford.edu/ computerized nutritional analysis $75,
http://www4.nau.edu/eaw/aboutus/eaw.asp Travis, J.W. & Ryan, R. S., The Wellness Workbook (1988); good whole health workbook, non-denominational but very spiritual
http://www.mbmi.org/shop/listproducts.asp?fam=1 Herb Benson’s mind-body institute book shop, good source for tapes, particularly for relaxation
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/portals/public.html National Library of Medicine, links to broad scope of current medical information
http://www.cdc.gov/node.do/id/0900f3ec80059b1a Centers for Disease Control Health Promotion information ranging from Adolescent to Women’s Health
http://www.hhs.gov/ Health and Human Services Portal linking variety of organizations and information resources
www.realage.com
www.shapeup.org health benefits of exercise websites from Diana Staatz
http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/23068734/
http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/exercise.html
www.cnumc.org website on spiritual formation, meditation, labyrinths, Taize
Sprituality assessments
http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=1&mid=2268
http://www.spiritualcompetency.com/recovery/lesson7.html
http://www.pastoralreport.com/archives/spiritual.pdf
www.audiodharma.org series of audio lectures on meditation, Buddhist perspective
www.bettermarriages.org relationships
Books
Body-Mind, Ken Dychtwald; Pantheon, 1977 Classic description of the connection of body and mind. Insightful observations about the consequences of long-held emotions on specific parts of the body.
Healthy Pleasures, Robert Ornstein & David Sobel; Addison-Wesley, 1989Support for pleasure as a source of health. Documents medical outcomes and offers a balanced perspective on what constitutes a healthy pleasure.
Emotional Intelligence, David Goleman, Bantam, 1995 Emphasizes the importance of healthy emotions on physical and social well-being.
Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings, Stephen Levine; Anchor Books, 1991 This book is a collection of meditation “scripts” useful for working with painful emotions and spiritual distress. It is non-denominational and very compatible with a Christian perspective.
