Health Tips & Advice

In addition to the physical benefits exercise offers, there are many positive impacts a daily workout routine will have on your emotional and mental health.

Within this section you’ll find tips and advice on a number of health related topics from various websites and nutrition experts.

Topics which cover exercises you can do at home (or in your dorm); healthy ways to reduce stress, anxiety and depression; how to identify unhealthy physical and emotional habits and behaviors; and steps you can take to avoid certain illnesses and viruses.

Women's Health

• Women's Health Magazine (https://www.womenshealthmag.com/)
• 8 Tips for College Women's Health & Safety (https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/features/college/index.html ) 

Men's Health

• Men's Health Topics (www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/menshealth.html)

Stress

• Stress Management (www.creditguru.com/stress.htm)
• Stress (stress.about.com/)
• American Institute of Stress  (www.stress.org)

Sexual Assault

• Violence & Prevention programming (www.drake.edu/violence-prevention/)

Traveler's Health

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov/travel/)

AIDS information

• US dept of Health and Human services (www.aidsinfo.nih.gov)

Sexually Transmitted Infections

• American Social Health Assoc. (www.ashastd.org)
• Go Ask Alice (www.goaskalice.columbia.edu)
• Center for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov/STD/)

Alcohol and Drugs

• National Institute of Health on Drug Abuse (www.drugabuse.gov)
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse (www.niaaa.nih.gov)

General Health Topics

• Village Health (www.ivillagehealth.com)
• Health Finder (www.healthfinder.gov)
• Vaccine Information in Various Languages (www.immunize.org/vis)

Food and Nutrition

• American Dietetic Association (www.eatright.org )

Smoking and Tobacco Prevention

• CDC website (www.cdc.gov/tobacco)
• Smoking cessation (www.tobaccofree.org)

Eating Disorders

• Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders (www.anad.org/)
• National Eating Disorders (www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/)
• Innerbody (https://www.innerbody.com/eating-disorders) 

Fitness

• Gatorade Sports Science (www.gssiweb.com)
• LIVESTRONG My Plate Calorie Counter (www.livestrong.com/myplate/)
• American Council on Exercise (ACE) (www.acefitness.org)

Mental Health

• Mental Health (www.ulifeline.com)
• National Institute of Mental Health (www.nimh.nih.gov)
• Freedom from Fear (www.freedomfromfear.org)