Below are Medical, Nutritional and Stress Management links

Medical

Texas Heart Institute

Easy to understand anatomy of the heart

PMRI (Preventive Medicine Research Institute

Dr. Ornish's official web site

Dr. John McDougall

Online Wellness Center with discussions, Q&A, recipes and resources

HeartSite

Text and graphics with excellent coverage of coronary artery disease, angina, heart attack - many other features

Ask the Doctors

Ottawa freenet based question and answer panel for any medical issue

OnLine Medical Dictionary

Full medical dictionary with alphabetical browsing

Ask Dr. Weil

Alternate medicine - Q&A feature and contributions from many other famous physicians

Cardiac Anatomy

Pediheart site with highly technical and detailed explanation of heart function

Cardiology WebMedLit

Abstracts of heart-related articles in medical journals

eHeart

 Electronic edition of Heart (medical journal)

Circulation

Abstacts from the cardiology journal of the American Medical Association

Healthlinks

Search engine for health related issues

Heart Disease and Stroke, Ask NOAH

New York (NOAH) joint medical project with database search and much useful information

Heart Info

News reports and summaries, independent; founded by a heart patient and a physician

Intellihealth

Harvard Medical School general medical resource + heart disease section.           Request daily or weekly email news summaries.

HeartScan

Commercial site - much information on non-invasive diagnostics

Mayo Clinic

General medical information plus Heart Center

NHLBI

National Cholesterol Education Program - Information on lowering cholesterol with FAQs and resource library

Dietary Supplement Information Database

search of bibliographic archives from National Institute of Health

PubMed - Medline

National Institute of Medicine search for over 9 million articles on medical topics

Yale Heart Book

Entire text of one of the best popular books on heart disease and function (requires Adobe Acrobat reader, available free)

WebMD

General medical resource site, encyclopedia, Q&A, self-care, discussions

Dr. Koop's Healthy Heart Resource Center

Former Surgeon General's coronary disease site - library, news, chats, advice

AMA Health Insight Information for Consumers

General medical news, audio articles

Lipid Health

National Lipid Education Council's newsletter, slides, articles, case studies. Highly technical

Heart Surgery Online

Well illustrated and easy to understand site showing how the heart works

The Heart in Plain English

Basic fundamentals featuring anatomy, function, circulatory system, electrical system, coronary arteries, heart valves and more.

RX Med

Information about most prescription drugs

Heart Risk Evaluation Calculator

Instant heart risk assessment based on Framingham Study data.

Cholesterol Risk Evaluation Calculator

Instant heart risk assessment based on cholesterol levels.

ApolloLipids

Comprehensive scientific resource on lipids; cholesterol and tryglycerides

    Nutritional  - Recipes, Food Sources, Vegetarian

Fat Free

Thousands of recipes archived by category, all low fat vegetarian

VegSource

On-line magazine, discussion groups, recipes, book reviews, personalities and resources for vegetarian living

Vegetarian Resource Group

Helpful center of vegetarian information

Vegetarian Times

Articles and recipes from a leading vegetarian magazine

Dixie Diner's Club

Mail order source of many low fat vegetarian foods, make their own soy foods high in isoflavones

USDA Nutritional Values

Database to determine the exact nutritional content of more than 10,000 foods

The Satiety Index

Foods that satisfy craving the longest

Vegetarians in Paradise

Los Angeles vegetarian resource - has excellent general information on airline meals and vegetarian food companies

        Stress Management  

Yoga Basics

Step-by-step instructions for many basic yoga poses (asanas)

Yoga Sequences

Simple instructions for selected yoga sequences, one for each day of the week

The Yoga Corner

Amazon.com's top-selling yoga books, audio and video tapes

Meditation

Basic information on various types of meditation and links

Meditation techniques - 1

Meditation instructions

Meditation techniques - 2

Simple instructions to learn meditation

Meditation Station

Information, resources and instructions from the Meditation Society of America

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