5 websites for better health

Spark People
Every New Year millions of people pledge to eat healthier, lose weight, and exercise. The majority of those people fail to keep their resolution and return to their bad habits. Spark People is a site that wants to help those who are struggling and inspire those who haven't started trying to get healthy yet. Their site is free to join and offers a wide variety of resources to help you improve your health. The site offers articles, calculators, food guides, quizzes, nutrition information, exercise videos, workout guides, calendars, recipes and tracker tools. Spark People is a fantastic place to assist you in meeting your health goals. If improving your health is something you want to do, go over to Spark People and join. What is there to lose?

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Video Jug

Video Jug is a sites that provides free professional "how to" videos on hundreds of topics. This sites videos are sorted into 10 categories and the focus of the site is improving your life. Do you have a home project you want to start? Perhaps you want to learn to cook a certain dish? Maybe you want to become a better golfer? This site is overflowing with tips on cooking, sports, technology, home projects, relationships, children, and the list goes on and on and on. If you want to learn something new by watching a video, don't go to You Tube, try Video Jug first. Their videos are high quality and done by experts so you can be sure you are getting good advice.

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Calorie Gallery
There are countless site that show the nutritional value of foods but the numbers might have more meaning if there were a visual to help you understand them better. Calorie Gallery is a site that not only provides the nutritional information it also gives you a picture of what a 200 calorie portion of that food looks like. According to the site's homepage, the site has not officially launched but you are still free to look around at their library of food pictures and information. There site offers 11 categories that you can browse or use their search bar to find a specific item and there is information. Each item you view comes with complete nutritional values information in grams or ounces as well as how long it will take you to burn those calories by different exercises. Their site also offers a meal planning tool that will help you calculate calories depending on what ingredients you choose. Calorie Gallery is a good website to help people stay healthy through nutritional choices. Health teaches as well as Consumer and Career teachers should give this site a try and they may find it useful for their students.

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Life Organizers
Life Organizers is a website designed to help you organize every aspect of your life. Messy homes, clutter, relationships, exercise, finances, travel, time management. These are just some of the areas that Life Organizers can assist you with. Their website contains both articles and check lists  to assist you in getting control over a challenging or time consuming part of life. Teachers and parents will be happy to know that Life Organizers has a section dedicated to education and helping your children/students with school. Most of us have an area of life that needs attention and Life Organizers just may have the solution to your problem.

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Monkey See
Last on today's agenda is Monkeysee, a "how to" website for just about everyone. It features videos produced by experts on just about any topic you can imagine. Their list of categories and subcategories is quite extensive. There are videos about cooking, safety, parenting, sports, and even education just to name five. Take a few minutes to browse their collection and you will be sure to find something interesting.

Picture the Recipe - Great recipes with lots of pictures

It has been awhile since I shared a cooking site so I figured I was overdue. Picture the Recipe is a food site that is visually appealing and informative. The site's author, Noreen, describes herself as the "ultimate foodie" who loves experimenting with recipes and takes pictures of the food at restaurants. She turned her food passion into this great website that shares well photographed recipes as well as other tips and information. If cooking is your passion or you simply want great ideas, you should definitely head over to Picture the Recipe to see the great things Noreen has for you.

All Things Cooking Infographic Collection

Soda Pic is a blog that likes to share cool things they find on the web. While there are many great things to be found on their blog I really liked this collection of 22 infographics that contain just about anything you need to know about cooking. Conversion charts, cooking utensil information, proper cooking times, spices, meat cuts, barbecuing, cooking methods, and the list goes on. This collection of infographics contains enough information to conduct a beginning level cooking class only you aren't paying a dime. If you teach cooking at any level, you will want to add this page to your web page for your students to access. If you enjoy cooking, or know someone who does, you will want to share Soda Pic's cooking infographic collection. 

Calorie Gallery - Showing you what 200 calories looks like

There are countless site that show the nutritional value of foods but the numbers might have more meaning if there were a visual to help you understand them better. Calorie Gallery is a site that not only provides the nutritional information it also gives you a picture of what a 200 calorie portion of that food looks like. According to the site's homepage, the site has not officially launched but you are still free to look around at their library of food pictures and information. There site offers 11 categories that you can browse or use their search bar to find a specific item and there is information. Each item you view comes with complete nutritional values information in grams or ounces as well as how long it will take you to burn those calories by different exercises. Their site also offers a meal planning tool that will help you calculate calories depending on what ingredients you choose. Calorie Gallery is a good website to help people stay healthy through nutritional choices. Health teaches as well as Consumer and Career teachers should give this site a try and they may find it useful for their students.

Math, Science, Writing, and Great Recipes

Brain Genie is an educational site based around improving math and science knowledge and skills. The site is intended for all grade levels and has thousands of lessons, games, and videos to guide students in mastering math and science. The site is free to join and will keep track of student progress and even provides reports, assignments, a gradebook, and awards. This site is a fantastic resource for students to use and teachers to share.

Writing is hard work but it is also very rewarding and can even be fun. 750 Words is a site that recognizes all these things and wants you to start writing. The site is built around the idea that starting your day by writing is a good way to clear your thoughts and improve your thinking throughout the day. It encourages you to attempt three pages (yes pages) of writing every morning but the writing can be about anything and your writing is always private. The purpose is to cleanse your mind and start your day without mental clutter. You are awarded points for your writing to help motivate you. The site is free so there is no reason not to look it over and learn more.

It has been awhile since I shared a cooking site so I figured I was overdue. Picture the Recipe is a food site that is visually appealing and informative. The site's author, Noreen, describes herself as the "ultimate foodie" who loves experimenting with recipes and takes pictures of the food at restaurants. She turned her food passion into this great website that shares well photographed recipes as well as other tips and information. If cooking is your passion or you simply want great ideas, you should definitely head over to Picture the Recipe to see the great things Noreen has for you.