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Health

All About Braces

Everything you want to know about braces, including fun facts, and famous people with braces.

Bodies in Motion, Minds at Rest

What is your heart rate? What are some basic exercises you can do? Do diets work? What are some health issues you should know about? These and more questions answered at this site.

Fast Food Finder

This site was created by the Minnesota attorney general's office. Students can type in a food item from a fast food place to find the calories, fat, cholesterol, and salt content.

FDA Kids Home Page

Includes a food safety quiz; all about animals; all about vaccines; children & tobacco; FDA investigators; medical devices; health issues for teens; and a food safety coloring book.

HeadLice.org

The mission of the the National Pediculosis Association, Inc. (NPA) is to protect children from the misuse and abuse of potentially harmful lice and scabies pesticidal treatments. As part of its mission, the NPA works to encourage our nation's health and child care professionals to adopt standardized head lice management programs.

HealthFinder

HealthFinder is an award-winning Federal Web site with links to carefully selected information and web sites from over 1,800 health-related organizations.

Injury Prevention

Provides safety tips on many activities for kids, teens and parents. Also covered are road rules, being around lawn mowers, lightning, fireworks, dogs and many more subjects. From Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

kidsDoctor

Medical advice and information on kids' illnesses and injuries. Type in a keyword and you'll find lots of great information. Think of kidsDoctor as a 24 hr-a-day source for "What every parent needs to know" when it comes to keeping our kids healthy.

KidsHealth for Kids

KidsHealth is the largest and most visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. There are literally thousands of in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources - all original and all developed by experts in the health of children and teens.

KidsPeace

KidsPeace, a private, not-for-profit organization, brings hope and healing to America's children through public awareness and treatment programs. The National Hospital for Kids in Crisis and KidsPeace National Centers for Kids in Crisis are divisions of KidsPeace.

NIEHS Kids Page

The National Instititute of Environmental Health Sciences presents these pages of games, activities, and Internet links dealing with environomentally caused health problems like: asthma, cancer, lead and zinc poisoning.

On the Teen Scene

FDA Consumer magazine periodically runs articles with important health information for teenagers, ranging from nutrition and sun safety to eating disorders and attention deficit disorder. These "Teen Scene" articles are available here electronically, and some are available as reprints. Topics include: acne agony, bone builders, eating disorders, food labels, mono, and more.

Poison Prevention

Primer on poisons and poison safety. Sponsored by Internet Public Library, American Pharmacentical Association Academy of Students of Pharmacy, University of Michigan.

TIPS 4 Kids

Health and wellness tips for children from the Center for Disease Control.

UNICEF Voices of Youth

Through Voices of Youth, you can take part in an electronic discussion about the future as we face the 21st century. We invite you to discuss with us how this world can become a place where the rights of every child are protected, that is, the right to live in peace, to have decent shelter, to be healthy and well-nourished, to have clean water, to play, to go to school, and to be protected from violence, abuse and exploitation.

Walk in My Shoes

Walk in My Shoes is an activity project that reaches across generations and teaches young people about growing older and the physical changes that occur with age. The activities provided online enable youth to distinguish between the realities of aging and the stereotypes or myths that exist about older adults.