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Helpful Links
We are dedicated to providing you—the Air Force family— with the latest in fitness information and tips to get you moving and eating right. Be sure to check out these valuable online resources to help educate your family on how to live healthy lifestyle together.
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Food & Nutrition
5 A Day For Better Health Provides, tips, recipes, publications, Q&A, and benefits of fruits and vegetables for better health.
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics AND’s commitment to helping people enjoy healthy lives brings the Academy into the forefront of five critical health areas facing all Americans: Obesity and overweight, with a focus on children; Healthy aging; Safe, sustainable and nutritious food supply; Nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics; Integrative medicine, including supplements and alternative medicine.
Aetna Intelihealth Contains health and weight management information, interactive quizzes and calculators, a nutrition database and recipes for weight loss.
Aim For a Healthy Weight The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) guidelines provide you with a new approach for the measurement of overweight and obesity and a set of steps for safe and effective weight loss.
America on the Move America on the Move offers free, personalized online resources, interactive tools, community support, and fun events.
Ask the Dietitian Contains many FAQs including questions and answers concerning overweight issues, diets, diets, and many more as well as links to additional resources.
Atkins Diet Alert A resource to help with questions and concerns about high-protein diets. Created by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Bam! Body and Mind Fitness and Nutrition website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System From The National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a state-based system of health surveys that collects information on health risk behaviors, preventive health practices, and health care access primarily related to chronic disease and injury.
Delicious Decisions Online recipes with dozens of other tempting heart-healthy meals.
Dietary Guidelines for Americans Dietary Guidelines for Americans has been published jointly every 5 years since 1980 by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Guidelines provide authoritative advice for people two years and older about how good dietary habits can promote health and reduce risk for major chronic diseases. They serve as the basis for Federal food and nutrition education programs.
Discovery Health Provides articles, advice and resources for nutrition, fitness and weight loss.
Family Doctor.org Health information for the whole family from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Fat Calories.com Nutrition information from fast food restaurants.
Fit to Fight - Commander Toolkit Nutrition and Fitness Resources from the Air Force Medical Service.
Fit Watch.com Provides basic information about fitness, exercise and nutrition along with tools to analyze and track fitness results. Fitness Center (Mayo Clinic) Find fitness information and expert exercise advice on starting an exercise program, staying motivated, preventing injury and more.
Food & Nutrition (Mayo Clinic) Contains information on food and nutrition and what constitutes a healthy diet, healthy cooking and healthy eating.
Food and Nutrition - U.S. Department of Agriculture Contain reports, publications, resources and information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding food and nutrition.
Food and Nutrition Information Center The Food and Nutrition Information Center provides credible, accurate, and practical resources for nutrition and health professionals, educators, government personnel and consumers.
Food Fit Contains up-to-date information on good food and good health including tools, recipes and guides.
Let's Move: America's Move to raise a Healthier Generation of Kids Let’s Move! has an ambitious but important goal: to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation. Let’s Move will give parents the support they need, provide healthier food in schools, help our kids to be more physically active, and make healthy, affordable food available in every part of our country. Join First Lady Michelle Obama, community leaders, teachers, doctors, nurses, moms and dads in a nationwide campaign to tackle the challenge of childhood obesity.
MSNBC Nutrition and Fitness Library Diet, fitness and health resources.
Nutrition - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC nutrition efforts cover a wide spectrum of related topics. Good nutrition is vital to good health, disease prevention, and essential for healthy growth and development of children and adolescents.
Weight Loss Center (Mayo Clinic) Explore components of successful weight loss, from diet and exercise to weight-loss programs, weight-loss products and weight-loss surgery.
Military Family Fitness
Military Family Fitness Spouse & Family Fitness
Commissary Eat Healthy – Be Active Your Way
Exchange Be Fit Operation: BEFIT! Your guide to a healthy lifestyle
Human Performance Resource Center A DoD inititiative under the Force Health Protection and Readiness Program. This is an online, one-stop clearinghouse of evidence-based information and resources to help Warfighters and their families be the best that they can be.
Financial Health
Military Saves Military Saves encourages the military community to meet immediate needs and build long-term wealth through saving and debt reduction.
FINRA Investor Education Foundation The FINRA Investor Education Foundation’s Military Financial Education Project delivers free, unbiased financial education tools and training to servicemembers, their spouses and on-base financial educators through a variety of programs and public awareness initiatives.
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Adult Fitness
America on the Move America on the Move offers free, personalized online resources, interactive tools, community support, and fun events.
Discovery Health Provides articles, advice and resources for nutrition, fitness and weight loss.
Discovery Health National Body Challenge Discovery Health’s National Body Challenge is a FREE, eight-week, comprehensive fitness and weight-loss challenge that provides the tools and inspiration, online and on television, to get in shape, shed extra pounds and adopt a healthier lifestyle. Open to individuals, groups and families, the National Body Challenge offers the flexibility for participants to make the right choices to meet their personal nutrition and fitness goals.
Exercise Daily! ExerciseDaily! is a free online wellness magazine. Fit to Fight - Commander Toolkit Nutrition and Fitness Resources from the Air Force Medical Service.
Fit Watch.com Provides basic information about fitness, exercise and nutrition along with tools to analyze and track fitness results.
Fitness Center (Mayo Clinic) Find fitness information and expert exercise advice on starting an exercise program, staying motivated, preventing injury and more.
Food & Nutrition (Mayo Clinic) Contains information on food and nutrition and what constitutes a healthy diet, healthy cooking and healthy eating.
Government Recreation & Fitness The forum for military and government recreation and fitness managers worldwide. Features news and in-depth reports on concepts, methods and equipment, the latest trends, policies, practices and products. Maintains dialogue with readers at U.S. military installations—Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, National Guard; Veterans’ hospital; National parks; state and local facilities; and more.
Healthy Choices - Commissaries.com DeCA is a partner with TRICARE and DoD nutrition and medical professionals from all services in an effort to encourage military consumers to read labels and make healthier food choices to improve health and control weight.
Let's Move: America's Move to raise a Healthier Generation of Kids Let’s Move! has an ambitious but important goal: to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation. Let’s Move will give parents the support they need, provide healthier food in schools, help our kids to be more physically active, and make healthy, affordable food available in every part of our country. Join First Lady Michelle Obama, community leaders, teachers, doctors, nurses, moms and dads in a nationwide campaign to tackle the challenge of childhood obesity.
Medical Fitness Association The Medical Fitness Association (MFA) mission is to foster opportunities for the development and operational success of medically integrated fitness centers. MFA provides industry standards, educational programs, benchmarks, outcome measurements, professional development and networking opportunities for the medical fitness industry.
MSNBC Nutrition and Fitness Library Diet, fitness and health resources.
Physical Activity for Everyone Provides resources on physical activity from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Fitness Jumpsite Contains active calorie calculator, fitness library, resources for getting active, nutrition made easy, managing your weight and fitness equipment.
The Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Health, physical activity, fitness and sports information website of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
Youth Fitness
Kids Health: Children's Health Web MD: Kids.gov: Helpful resources for youth health topics
Bam! Body and Mind Fitness and Nutrition website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Cancer
American Institute for Cancer Research Education on diet and cancer prevention, recipes, free brochures. Explains obesity and lack of physical activity’s link with cancer.
Diabetes
American Diabetes Association The American Diabetes Association funds research, publishes scientific findings, provides information and other services to people with diabetes, their families, health professionals and the public.
Diabetes Self Management Diabetes Self-Management brings you the information you need to control your diabetes and improve your health.
Heart
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association’s mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Health Information Center Provides health information, tools and publications from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Lung
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Health Information Center Provides health information, tools and publications from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Tobacco Cessation
Quit Tobacco - Make Everyone Proud Tobacco use impacts physical fitness, night vision, and healing and impairs mission readiness. Find out how you can quit or help others quit by accessing “Quit Tobacco - Make Everyone Proud”, a DoD website that provides free cessation coaching and other resources to aid in cessation.
The Great American Smokeout Contains advice on how to quit smoking, from advice on planning how to quit to tips for when cravings hit. Also provides contact information for counselors who are ready to talk to you anytime, day or night.
Sun Protection
The SunWise Program The SunWise Program is an environmental and health education program that aims to teach children and their caregivers how to protect themselves from overexposure to the sun.
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