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Health,
Fitness, and Disease Hotlist
NIck Deligencia
Health
Education: Health Care Perspectives for Teachers
University of San Diego Department of Continuing Education
KROQ.com
http://www.kroq.com
Click on the LOVELINE link on the left-hand side of the screen. I’m
no doctor, but my students frequently come to me with medical/health
questions. I always refer them to our teen clinic (it’s free to registered
students), but I also usually tell them to call Dr. Drew. It’s actually
become a powerful resource for many of my students because even if it’s
not cool to listen to your English teacher, it is cool to listen to
Adam and Dr. Drew. By the way, for those of you who are unfamiliar with
Dr. Drew, he is a real doctor who hosts a radio show called LoveLine.
KROQ is the radio station in Los Angeles that airs the show weeknights
at 10:00 p.m. Some of the content is inappropriate for younger children.
HealthScout
http://www.healthscout.com/
This site provides all kinds of information about general health, diseases,
addictions, etc. It’s a good general reference, and many students use
this site and WebMD for research resources for their Health and Science
projects.
WebMD
http://my.webmd.com/webmd_today/home/default
This is the WebMD site address. It’s like the HealthScout page, but
it also has links to health-related news articles.
24 Hour Fitness
http://www.24hourfitness.com/html/fitness/youth/adolescents/
Please don’t consider this an endorsement for 24 Hour Fitness. I often
try to refer parents to online tipsheets like this one; for some reason
it seems to have more credibility if the parents can see the original
source of my information. I also feel like it minimizes my liability
because I didn’t tell them what to do, I only referred them to information.
Centers for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov/
How could I not include the Center for Disease Control website? I often
encourage students to do their own research about the diseases and health
concerns that they hear about in the news and in their classes. The
CDC Factbook is also a handy resource (kind of like the CIA Factbook).
About Nutrition
http://nutrition.about.com/
One of our Health teachers turned me on to this site. It has a lot of
information about, you guessed it, nutrition. I like that it has links
to different nutrition topics like healthy recipes, eating advice, and
diet analysis. I also noticed that it has news links that are suspiciously
similar to those in the realage.com electronic newsletter.
Teen Pregnancy
http://www.teenpregnancy.org/
I wish that this site was not as important to my Hotlist as it is. The
very first time I taught 10th grade English, 8 out of 8 girls in my
class either had a baby or had gotten pregnant by the end of March.
This site has a parent tipsheet (you know how I love those), research
data and results, and links to related news articles.
ParentsPlace
http://www.parentsplace.com/expert/nutritionist/articles/0,10335,240006_108638,00.html
This page has information about prenatal health, including and FAQ page.
Like the site referenced above, I wish I didn’t think this was an important
resource for our students.
American Dental Association
http://www.ada.org/public/topics/index.html
This is the site for the American Dental Association. I don’t know about
your students, but many of my students neither brush nor floss on a
regular basis. At least one of the questions in the realage.com survey
was related to oral health.
OSHA
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp
OSHA recently came to my school to begin an investigation into what
may turn out to be a disproportionate cancer rate among our teachers.
We have not yet received a report, but many teachers quickly sought
information about the various types and features of cancer. This site
has links to news, research/clinical trials, and hopeful stories about
cancer survivors.
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