Health Resources

Website from the Department of Health and Human Services and the CDC.

Up-to-date advanced resource of all current health topics.

Girlshealth.gov offer girls reliable, useful information on health and well-being. Covers hundreds of topics, from getting your period to stopping bullies, and from getting fit to preventing sexually transmitted infections.

This site is good for general health information, sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Provides up-to-date health information with separate areas designated for kids, teens, and parents.

An excellent source for online health information, educational services, and communities for physicians and consumers.

The purpose of the website is to provide carefully researched health information to teenage boys and young men.

Scroll down to the section titled "Coping." Here you will find information about meditation, positive thinking, relaxation techniques and yoga.

Contains information about depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and other mental health issues.

Tips on how to add physical activity into your life, and links to children's programs.

10 great tips about how to keep yourself motivated from WebMD.

Website from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

All kinds of information about nutrition from the USDA.

Website that supports Mrs. Obama's health initiative for kids.

This site helps you plan and track your meals and nutrition. Also from the USDA.

This site serves as a guide offering access to government websites with reliable and accurate nutrition information.

Tips on how to add physical activity into your life, and links to children's programs.

This site contains sample workouts to increase power and speed in various sports.

A guide to many fitness and health resources.

Website sponsored by the University of Illinois.

This website is designed for kids to answer questions like: What are the facts? Why do people take 'em? How can I say no?

Al-Anon helps families and friends of alcoholics recover from the effects of living with the problem drinking of a relative or friend. Alateen is a recovery program for young people.

This site is designed to combat drug use and drug use messages.

Provides information about drugs including short and long term effects. There is an area just for teens as well.

Designed to provide current information about drugs and drug policy.

You can search for specific drugs using the search box. Other information includes prevention and treatments.

This site addresses the issues of underage drinking, impaired driving, drug use and other destructive decisions and killers of young people.

This site is designed to combat drug use and drug use messages.

Sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services, provides teens with reliable information about alcohol and resisting peer pressure.

Contains lots of information about tobacco use in a teen friendly format.

If you use this database in school, you do not need a password to access the articles. Remember to create good search strategies when using a database. Combine your search words with AND, OR, NOT in order to look for specific information.

For example: breakfast AND benefits or breakfast AND health

Do NOT type in something like this: What are the benefits of eating a healthy breakfast? It won't work!!!