Top 10 Health Tools to Bookmark Now!

“If you have your health, you have everything.” Right?

Do you know if it’s true? Check out these 10 tools to improve, manage or calculate your Health and Wellness on line, for FREE.

1. Life Expectancy Calculator

The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator uses the most current and carefully researched medical and scientific data in order to estimate how old you will live to be. Most people score in their late eighties... how about you?

http://www.livingto100.com

2. SparkPeople.com

Spark People is a free online diet and healthy living community with tons of interactive tools all totally FREE. You can get the FREE online diet plan that has helped over 5 millions of people. Nutrition; Fitness; Menus; Recipes; Other Goals and trackers.

www.sparkpeople.com

3. My Health Trackers!

This easy-to-use tool can help you reach any health goal you set your mind to. Log and track your daily health habits and get personalized, in-depth analysis of all of your health weight loss and fitness goals.

http://www.prevention.com/cda/healthtracker.do?cm_sp=HealthTracker-_-TopNav-_-healthtracker.do

4. Basal Energy Expenditure: Harris-Benedict Equation

Cornell University. Weill Medical College.

Your resting metabolism (RMR) (also known as basal metabolism or BRM) is the minimum calories you burn each day for your body to keep everything functioning. This tool allows you to estimate your Basal Energy Expenditure. Also contains links to other medical calculators.

http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~spon/picu/calc/beecalc.htm

5. Body Mass Index Calculator

A simple to use BMI calculator from DHHS. National Institutes of Health. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm

6. HEALTHY DINING FINDER

Here is a resource to help you identify nutritious choices at nearly 30,000 popular restaurant locations in all 50 states, including P.F. Chang's, Chili's, Au Bon Pain and Burger King. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided partial funding for the development of this site.

http://www.healthydiningfinder.com/

7. Carbohydrates: Rate Your Intake

It isn't just how much of them you eat that counts, it's which ones. Nutritionally, carbs range from super-healthy to almost useless.

http://www.healthcentral.com/diet-exercise/carbohydrates-intake-3055-143.html

8. Estimating Your 10-Year Risk of Having a Heart Attack

DHHS. NIH. National Cholesterol Education Program. Risk assessment tool to predict an onset of a heart attack.

http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/atpiii/calculator.asp

9. Rate Your Plate

USDA. FNS. Connecticut's Team Nutrition Program. Analyzes food intake based on the Food Guide Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines, along with information on food labels and portion sizes.

http://sp.uconn.edu/~cthompso/

10. Health Risk Assessments

Actually, this is 12 different tools provided by North Shore Medical Center. Here you will gain insight into your health risks through the use of these assessment tools. They're easy to use and give you a quick snapshot of your likelihood to develop these common conditions.

http://nsmc.staywellsolutionsonline.com/InteractiveTools/RiskAssessments/