About.com Hydration Calculator
http://nutrition.about.com/library/blwatercalculator.htm
This website will tell you how much water you should be drinking everyday based on your weight.
ASU Personal Wellness Profile
http://www.asu.edu/studentaffairs/wellness/personal-wellness-profile.html
If you are an Arizona State University student or have a MyASU account/asurite, you can take the ASU personal wellness profile. This is a longer survey – up to 30 minutes – that will give you your “biological age” (age given your current habits) as well as some suggestions how to improve your current lifestyle (food, exercise habits, stress, emotions).
Blue Zones Vitality Compass
http://www.bluezones.com/
This is a 5 minute survey that will give you your “biological age” (age given your current habits), overall life expectancy, health life expectancy (how long you will live free of major diseases), “blue zone years” (the number of years you have gained/lost given current behaviors), as well as suggestions of how to maximize your health life expectancy and current lifestyle.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention Physical Activity Chart
http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/everyone/guidelines/adults.html
Discusses how long adults should exercise for – including aerobic and muscle building exercises. Also gives suggestions for different exercises and tells you how to calculate casual walking (such as walking between classes) into the amount you need to truly exercise.
MyPyramid Food Plan
http://www.mypyramid.gov/mypyramid/index.aspx
This is a good website sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture. By simply entering your age, sex, weight, height, and physical activity, they will provide you with the amounts you should eat of each food group daily as well as the total calories for your particular build and life style. It also suggests how many teaspoons of oil and calories of sugar you should have each day.
My Pyramid Menu Planner
http://www.mypyramidtracker.gov/planner/launchPage.aspx
This is a good website to get an idea of how much you have to eat to get enough vegetables, fruit, etc. You can test different amounts and foods to get an idea of how to satisfy your daily food groups. It does ask for a name but it does not save any information.
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