One of the most important nurse practitioner duties is to help patients learn how to live healthy. For many people, though, it can be a challenge to access the information that they need to make better decisions about their health and wellness. Even more difficult is learning about how to inspire a little more happiness as part of a healthy lifestyle. The good news is that, no matter your salary, you can afford to improve your health and find a little more happiness. Here are 50 YouTube videos that can help you improve your health and your happiness:

Nutrition

Proper nutrition is one of the foundations of a healthy lifestyle. Additionally, food can have an impact on our moods and happiness. When you eat right, you will have better health, and increased feelings of well-being.

1. Top 10 Worst Foods: This video from Nutrition by Natalie tackles the worst foods you can eat. Avoid these foods and improve your health.
2. 7 Nutrition Fundamentals for Losing Fat: Dr. Clay provides some of the nutrition fundamentals you need to observe in order to reduce your body fat.
3. Nutrition & Behavior: This is a fascinating lecture that includes a look at nutrition and how it affects behavior and mental health.
4. Japan vs. USA Diet: Get information on what makes a Japanese diet so healthy.
5. Top Antioxidant Foods: Learn more about foods that are high in healthy antioxidants.
6. 5 Diet and Nutrition Tips: Get some good health and nutrition tips for better dieting and better nutrition in general.
7. How to Follow a Health Diet by Reading Nutrition Labels: A helpful look at how to read a nutrition label so that you make better food decisions.
8. “Health Food” vs. Healthy Food — How to read labels: Learn about how “health foods” make their claims. Learn to make better choices for truly healthy food.
9. Carbohydrates & You: Get the real story on carbohydrates, and how they work in your body and how they affect your nutrition.
10. Ani Phyo’s Raw Food Kitchen: Watch how to make a delicious — and healthy — apple pie without cooking anything.

Aerobics

Aerobic exercise offers a number of health benefits. You get into better shape, improve your health, and can even boost your overall happiness and energy level with aerobic exercise.

11. Specific Low Impact Aerobic Exercises: Creating a low impact exercise routine.
12. Specific High Impact Aerobic Exercises: Learn some basic high impact exercises.
13. 10 Minute Cardio Jump Start Workout: Go through this great aerobic workout for increased health and calorie burning.
14. How to Do Ab Crunches for Aerobic Exercise: Learn some ab exercises you can do in conjunction with aerobics.
15. How to do Turn Steps for Aerobic Exercise: Step by step look at how you can do turn steps to add variety to your step workout.
16. Dance Dance Dance Fitness: A fun dance aerobics workout.
17. Arabic Belly Dance Basic Moves:  Learn belly dance moves for fitness and an aerobic workout.
18. 10-Minute Cardio Kickboxing Workout: Enjoy a quick kickboxing workout for increased health and calorie burning.
19. How to Pole Dance for Fitness: Boost Your Upper Body Workout in Pole Dancing: Learn how to use pole dancing as a fun and innovative way to work out.
20. Aerobic Fat burning zone myth and true fat burning exercise: Get some information about how exercise burns fat. Learn about the myths behind some aerobic exercise.

Strength and Resistance Workouts

Part of overall health and fitness is adding strength and resistance exercises to your regimen. This also includes toning exercises. Here are some videos showing you how to keep your muscles strong.

21. Strength Training at Home: A great video focusing on exercises you can do around the house to condition your body.
22. Resistance Band Workout: Use a resistance band to increase strength easily.
23. Exercise Ball & Resistance Band Workout: Use two basic pieces of equipment to create a workout for your whole body.
24. Advanced Resistance Workout: This is a more advanced workout based on using a band.
25. Shoulder Bridge Exercise for Core Muscle Toning & Strength: Learn this great exercise designed to strengthen your core.
26. The Evolution of Abs Exercises and Core Workouts: Stabilization and resistance exercises for your abs.
27. Body Conditioning: Create a conditioning workout using a variety of exercises. For some, you may need access to a gym.
28. Seated Upper Body Strength Exercises: You can actually condition your body while sitting. This video shows you how.
29. Lower Body Workout: Strengthen your hips, glutes and thighs.
30. Strength Training: This is a workout designed for strength training, requiring dumbbells.

Mind/Body Exercises

There are a number of health benefits associated with engaging in mind/body exercises like yoga, tai chi, and even pilates. These exercises provide beneficial stretching exercises that promote flexibility, and they also provide strengthening benefits. The mindfulness component can boost mood and reduce stress, providing some help with happiness and self esteem.

31. Best Beginner Kundalini Yoga Exercises: Learn some basic Kundalini exercises for beginners.
32. Yoga Exercises to Burn Fat and Lose Weight: You can actually use yoga to burn fat and lose weight.
33. How to Do Yoga Combo Exercises: Learn some good yoga exercises to integrate into your cardio workout.
34. Prenatal Yoga Flow Pregnancy Fitness Sequence: Learn some yoga moves you can do if you are pregnant.
35. Tai Chi Chuan 24 Steps Beginngers Lesson: Learn how to do some basic tai chi moves and sequences for control, exercise and mindfulness.
36. Scott Cole’s Discover Tai Chi: Weight Loss Workout: Dynamic tai chi workout for calorie burning.
37. Kabbalah Tai Chi Workout: This is a very interesting combination of traditions for a good workout.
38. Beginner Pilates Workout: Learn the basics of pilates and how to do the exercises.
39. Bonnies Workout Pilates Routine Total Body: A total body workout using pilates.
40. POP Pilates: Core Abs Workout: Get a good workout for your core.

Meditation and Relaxation

There are definite health benefits associated with meditation. Additionally, if you find time for relaxation, you can reduce stress and anxiety and enhance your mood.

41. Simple Meditation Techniques: Proper Breathing in Meditation: Learn how to breath properly during meditation practice.
42. Simple Meditation Techniques, and Lifestyle Tips: Learn some basic meditation techniques and tips for better lifestyle.
43. Advanced Meditation Techniques Microcosmic Orbit: Learn an advanced meditation technique.
44. A Simple Meditation Technique with Breathwork and Movement: Learn meditative process that involves small movement.
45. Chakra Meditation: Follow along with this nine minute meditation designed to help you focus and relax.
46. Morning Chakra Meditation: Start your day out right with this 10 minute morning meditation.
47. Breathing Relaxation Exercises: Learn some breathing techniques to help relax anywhere.
48. Spinal Twists-Lower Back Exercises & Relaxation Techniques for Stress: Learn how to relieve stress with this simple exercises.
49. 5 Relaxation Techniques to Relax Your Mind in Minutes!: Learn techniques to help you relax so that you can sleep better.
50. “Sea of Tranquility” Relaxation Video: Use this video to help you relax.

This autumn has brought with it an re-emergence of swine flu. The H1N1 virus is a rather aggressive form of the flu that most people are not used to. With the kids back in school, and flu season already causing some problems, it is little surprise that the disease that was declared a pandemic six months ago is back in the consciousness of the nation. There is plenty of news out there with regard to swine flu, however. If you are looking for some helpful information about swine flu, you might consider these 50 blogs that have provided some coverage of swine flu:

Swine Flu Information and Guides

Information pages and guides can help you get a good overall feel for swine flu and what to expect. Here are some blogs that can provide you with reliable information on the H1N1 virus.

1. Cold & Flu on About.com provides a complete guide to swine flu.
2. Swine Flu Overview from WebMD offers a great picture of swine flu, and includes treatments and other helpful information.
3. Parenting.com’s blog offers a parental guide to H1N1 that can help you protect your children.
4. Discovery Channel has a great inside guide video presentation on the swine flu.
5. Pune Mate offers an illustrated online swine flu guide.
6. Centers for Disease Control give you the information the government is offering on the swine flu. Includes updates, links, symptoms and more.
7. CNN has also put together a parental guide for swine flu on its Health blog.
8. CBN.com’s blog put up a swin flu guide for ministries to use as they continue the work of spreading Christianity.
9. The ChamberPost provides access to a guide about H1N1 and how businesses can prepare for it.
10. Scientific American has its own guide to swine flu on its blog, including a 60-second video look at the swine flu vaccine.
11. Career Woman, Inc. offers a guide to how you can prepare your small business for swine flu.

News Coverage of the H1N1 Virus

See which blogs have been providing news coverage of the latest H1N1 outbreak, and keep updated on further developments.

12. Google Maps Mania offers the latest version of a swine flu outbreak map, helping you keep up with what’s going on with the spread of swine flu.
13. The Huffington Post has a large number of news type articles covering swine flu.
14. Health News Blog has been covering the H1N1 virus and its progress, and has some great resources and news items about the swine flu.
15. NHS Blog Doctor has some information on swine flu, including how the mainstream media has been covering the outbreaks.
16. Nature News has a number of special stories and news coverage of the swine flu, including a timeline and the latest headlines.
17. ScienceInsider looks at some of the latest news with regard to the swine flu and issues related to combating it.
18. Balanced News Blog offers coverage of swine flu, including a story about president Barack Obama declaring H1N1 a national emergency.
19. Threshing Grain looks at some of the coverage of swine flu, and some of the issues that worry parents about H1N1.
20. Mommy Poppins provides a number of news stories and other information on the H1N1 virus.
21. NPR’s blog has some news stories on swine flu, and different information about what you can do about it.
22. MSNBC offers swine flu news coverage that can help get a handle on things.
23. Fox News helps you keep track of the latest happenings with swine flu, and helps you find helpful information.

Swine Flu FAQs

Many people have questions about swine flu. The good news is that there are some reliable FAQs that can help you find answers to your questions quickly and easily.

24. Mayo Clinic has a blog, and that blog includes some helpful swine flu FAQs that can help you get answers to your questions. There is even a video.
25. Consumer Reports has a health blog that offers a great FAQ on who should get the swine flu vaccine.
26. Healthy Living addresses a number of frequently asked questions related to swine flu, and the swine flu vaccine.
27. Noteshow has a swine flu FAQ post that can help you figure out some of the basics.
28. Patient Empowerment from About.com offers a very helpful FAQ that is easily organized and can help you learn about H1N1.
29. The New York Times blog offers a great video that answers some of the frequently asked questions about the H1N1 virus.
30. World Health Organization provides helpful information on the H1N1 virus, and how you can prepare for it.
31. Minute Clinic offers some easy to navigate answers to the most common questions about swine flu.

Protection from Swine Flu

Learn how to protect yourself from swine flu. There are some measures you can take, and these blogs will help you learn what they are.

32. The Smart Woman’s Guide Blog offers some helpful information on the swine flu vaccine, and how it relates to the seasonal flu vaccine.
33. mclelun.com provides a “survival guide” for the H1N1 virus that can help you figure out what to do in order to protect yourself from swine flu.
34. On Women from U.S. News and World Report is a blog about women’s issues, and it addresses how pregnant women can protect themselves from swine flu.
35. Examiner.com offers a look at how you can do your part to prevent swine flu in schools.
36. National School Boards Association blog offers helpful information on protection against swine flu during the school year.
37. Testing It Up has a list of tips that can help breastfeeding and pregnant women protect themselves and their babies from swine flu.
38. Politicol News offers a look at general protection against the swine flu virus and steps you can take.
39. Trends Updates looks at some of the things you need to know in order to protect yourself from swine flu.
40. Kevin MD offers a great inside look at the swine flu vaccine vs. the seasonal flu vaccine. Hint: you need the swine flu vaccine — the seasonal flu vaccine isn’t going to cut it.
41. Walyou has an interesting look at fun and fashionable surgical masks that can help protect you from the H1N1 virus.
42. Six Until Me shares her own story about fighting to get the swine flu vaccine.

Swine Flu Myths

As with all diseases and health concerns, there are a number of myths circulating about the H1N1 virus. These blogs can help you debunk those.

43. National Geographic’s blog debunks common swine flu myths.
44. MSN Health offers some of the top myths associated with swine flu, and helps you get your facts straight.
45. Bad Astronomy from Discover offers a great video of busting swine flu myths.
46. ABC News looks at some of the swine flu myths you might encounter, and then debunks them.
47. Newsday’s blog looks at some of the myths surrounding swine flu, and counters them with the facts.
48. New Scientist takes a look at eight swine flu myths that could prove a danger to your health.
49. Times Now offers a great video on swine flu myths and facts.
50. Mobile Reviews, News and Tips provides a helpful look at myths that could make you susceptible to complications from swine flu.

One of the major health issues facing the world — especially the developing world — continues to be HIV and AIDS. Any health practitioner needs to be aware of the current research and findings related to HIV/AIDS, and what is being done in this field. The epidemic continues to be one with dire consequences for global health, and one that needs to be addressed. Here are 50 opencourseware clases, research papers and other sources that can help you learn more about HIV and AIDS:

HIV & AIDS Open Courseware

If you are interested in becoming better acquainted with the way that HIV/AIDS progresses through the body, and what is being done about the AIDS epidemic right now, you can take free or very low-cost classes online. Open courseware provides an excellent way for you to expand your horizons and learn something new and useful about HIV and AIDS.

1. HIV/AIDS: This information from Johns Hopkins University provides you with lectures and assignments related to HIV and AIDS, as well as addressing issues related to human rights and sexual health.
2. Sexual Health, HIV/STI, and Human Rights: Johns Hopkins University offers an interesting approach to studying HIV and other sexually transmitted illnesses.
3. AIDS and Poverty in Africa: This course is offered by MIT and takes a look at the AIDS epidemic and how it is related to poverty in Africa.
4. HIV and AIDS audit: This collection of information, lectures and more from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa is very interesting and insightful.
5. Biography of the AIDS Epidemic: Creating an Oral-History Project: This interesting open courseware project from Columbia University follows the development of AIDS.
6. HIV/AIDS: This is an overview of HIV and AIDS, and the progress being made to manage the condition. This course is available for $12.95 from Western Schools.
7. Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases: This open courseware from Harvard’s medical school features different immune diseases, and includes case studies on HIV.
8. Contagious Diseases: There is little doubt that HIV/AIDS is contagious. And it is one of the diseases covered in this Connexions open courseware class.
9. Infectious Diseases: This in another Tufts University offering. It goes into greater detail about AIDS.
10. Oral Public Health: Slide Lecture 3: Issues and Hot Topics in Oral and Public Health: While all types of oral health issues are addressed in this slide lecture from Tufts University, it is worth noting that some time is devoted to HIV/AIDS.
11. Introduction to Technical Communication: Perspectives on Medicine and Public Health: An offering from MIT, this courseware class allows you to read what physicians have to say about HIV and AIDS, as well as other subjects.
12. General Immunology: This course from Southern Illinois University looks at the immune system. It also includes information on diseases, like HIV/AIDS, that attack the immune system.
13. Immune Evasion: How Sneaky Pathogens Avoid Host Surveillance: While not about HIV and AIDS, this course from MIT is nevertheless helpful in learning about the immune system, a section of the the body that HIV/AIDS attacks.
14. Microbiology: Look at the way the human body works on a cellular level. This course from Tufts University is helpful in understanding how different diseases attack the body.

Research Papers and Findings on HIV & AIDS

There are a number of research papers and findings on HIV/AIDS every year. Here are some places to start if you are interested in learning about the latest related to HIV and AIDS.

15. Vulnerability and opportunity: adolescents and HIV/AIDS in the developing world: An interesting look at young adults and others in the developing world and how HIV and AIDS affects them. Available for free, as long as you order it for email delivery through Popline.
16. Psychological interventions to prevent HIV infection are urgently needed: New priorities for behavioral research in the second decade of AIDS: A look at what is happening as the AIDS epidemic continues. Available for $11.95 from American Psychologist.
17. Bridging the gap: addressing gender and sexuality in HIV prevention: Another helpful offering through Popline. This one is about looking at gender and sexuality in terms of the AIDS epidemic.
18. Translating HIV/AIDS research findings into policy: An interesting paper, available in free full text, from the Health Policy and Planning journal at Oxford. A look at how research findings on HIV and AIDS can be used to set policy.
19. Utilization of research findings for HIV/AIDS interventions targeted at women: A look at ways that research findings can be used to help women avoid becoming victims of HIV/AIDS.
20. IFJ research findings on reporting HIV/AIDS in six countries in Africa and Asia: An interesting look at the way journalist cover HIV and AIDS.
21. Child Health Topics: This site contains a number of papers and information on child health topics — including several on HIV and AIDS, including antiretroviral resistance, HIV parents and more issues related to children and HIV.
22. Women’s Property Rights, HIV and AIDS, and Domestic Violence: Research Finds from Two Rural Districts in South Africa and Uganda: A look at how HIV/AIDS plays a role in gender dynamics and society in Africa.
23. HIV/AIDS White Papers: Read about attempts to win the battle against HIV, as well as some of the helpful treatments to manage the disease.
24. Women and HIV/AIDS: A white paper on the interplay between gender and HIV/AIDS.
25. The Full Cost of HIV/AIDS Treatment: Access to Medicine: This white paper addresses the costs associated with HIV/AIDS treatment, especially as related to access to medicine to treat the condition.
26. The Minority AIDS Initiative: Meeting the Challenges in Communities of Color Nationwide: Addresses the issues in addressing HIV and AIDS in non-white communities.
27. The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Public Sector Human Resources in Africa: This paper looks at how HIV and AIDS can make things difficult for public sector service.

Web Sites Focusing on HIV & AIDS Information

There are some web sites that offer access to a number of informational white papers, research findings and other resources related to HIV/AIDS. Here are some places where you can go to find a number of different sources of information on HIV and AIDS.

28. AIDSinfo: This is a resource from the National Institutes of Health.
29. HIV/AIDS: This is a page from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, containing papers, research and news about HIV/AIDS.
30. HIV/AIDS: This is a research and information resource page from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
31. HIV/AIDS Programs: Learn more about HIV and AIDS and the kinds of programs available for treatment from the Department of Health and Human Services.
32. Global Media AIDS Initiative: Helpful research papers, news items and other information about AIDS on a global scale.
33. Aegis: Provides news, information and research about AIDS and HIV.
34. HIV and AIDS: Eldis offers research papers, findings and news about the development, treatment and spread of HIV/AIDS.
35. National HIV and STD Testing Resources: Get research information on HIV/AIDS, as well as information on testing for HIV.
36. Children and HIV and AIDS: This page from UNICEF offers research findings, news and resources related to children affected by HIV/AIDS.
37. Healthline: This doctor-reviewed information about HIV/AIDS provides you with what you need to know.
38. The Body: Information about HIV and AIDS, prevention, and the latest research.
39. MedicineNet.com: Looks at causes, progression and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
40. Revolution Health: HIV and AIDS resources to help you learn about symptoms, progression and treatment.
41. HealingWell.com: Offers information on treatment of AIDS, as well as access to some of the latest research.

Blogs About HIV and AIDS

One way to find access to the latest news, research and information on HIV and AIDS is to keep track of bloggers. Many HIV/AIDS blogs provide links and summaries of research related to the epidemic.

42. AIDS/HIV: This is About.com’s coverage of the latest in HIV and AIDS.
43. AIDS.gov Blog: The U.S. government has a blog about AIDS policy and research.
44. HIV and AIDS News: This blog follows the latest happenings in HIV/AIDS.
45. Regan’s POZ Blog: A look at the latest news and information from the HIV and AIDS culture.
46. AIDS Action Committee Blog: Learn about HIV/AIDS news and research.
47. VisualAIDS: Devoted to AIDS awareness, busting myths, and sharing the latest reputable research and news.
48. HIV Prevention Justice Blog: A look at events and research regarding HIV policy.
49. The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive: Information, research and more on HIV/AIDS from Marvelyn Brown, an activist and author who has written about HIV.
50. Still arriving: The thoughts of a young man with HIV.

Did you know that 17.5 million victims each year with cardiovascular diseases (heart attacks and strokes) create the leading cause of death throughout the world? Raising awareness about heart disease is vital, including watching your weight and exercising regularly. For people who already know they have heart disease, a matter of what to eat is just as important as what medicines to take.

The following fifty Web sites provide excellent resources for heart-healthy recipes. The list is categorized with recipes from medical institutions and organizations, from food sites and from other sites concerned about heart-healthy foods. In addition, some articles with recipes also are included. The links are listed in alphabetical order within those categories to show readers that we do not favor one heart-healthy source over another.

Medical Focus

1. American Heart Association: Search recipes by keyword or conduct and advanced search to customize results. You also can search for recipes by category, main ingredient, cooking method and more.
2. Cardiology Associates: Learn more about heart-healthy main dishes, sides, desserts, salads and more from this heart-focused group based in Mobile, Alabama.
3. Cleveland Clinic: Enjoy healthy recipes from the Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.
4. Healthy Aging: Sponsored by the Southeast Texas Regional Planning Commission and prepared by Joseph Smith, Food Service Coordinator at Christus St. Elizabeth Healthy Options Cafe, this site carries some mouth-watering heart-healthy recipes.
5. Heart Healthy Home Cooking, African American Style [PDF]: This topical heart-healthy eBook is presented by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
6. Mayo Clinic: From appetizers and beverages to side dish and soup recipes, this page at the Mayo Clinic offers over 100 heart-healthy ideas.
7. ProHealth Care: ProHealth Care is a regional critical and primary care provider, but they offer some heart-healthy recipes to anyone who visits their site.
8. Providence Health & Services: This medical center serves the Portland, Oregon area, but their hearty-healthy recipes are available to anyone.
9. Saint Thomas Heart: This facility not only offers online recipes and cookbooks that promote heart health, they also present heart healthy cooking demonstrations and tastings for locals.
10. St. Vincent Heart Center: Learn more about making lifestyle changes for better heart health and check out some tasty heart-healthy recipes at this site.
11. Swedish Medical Center: Located in Seattle, Washington, this site offers a search engine for their heart-healthy recipes for anyone. Enter a food to find a recipe or select a food category from the menu.
12. The Healthy Fridge: This site is part of a national consumer-awareness campaign about heart-healthy eating. They include recipes for adults and for kids.
13. The Heart Truth for Women: These recipes were specially developed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). This is a taste of what you can discover in their “Keeping the Beat” book about heart-healthy eating [PDF].
14. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics: This resource offers a week filled with low-cholesterol, low-fat, no-added-salt menu ideas, which all are great for your heart.
15. University of Rochester Medical Center: Take note of this list of recipes, which are offered to cardiac rehabilitation patients at this health center.
16. UW Health: The University of Wisconsin Health Sciences offers this “Go Red for Women” site filled with heart-healthy food choices and recipes.
17. Washington Hospital Center: Try some of these heart-healthy recipes, including Gazpacho and a Rainbow Fruit Salad.

Food Sites

18. Eating Well: This site maintains a “Heart Healthy Diet Center” that focuses on recipes and snack ideas. They also have a 28-day meal plan.
19. Food & Wine: This link takes you to the healthy section of Food & Wine, where you can learn more about healthy eating from world-famous chefs.
20. Food Network’s Healthy Eating: This category within the Food Network looks at healthy fast foods, low-carb or low-fat recipes, vegetarian dishes and more.
21. FoodFit: Use this site to learn more about healthy eating, healthy cooking and delicious menu plans that could save time, money and your health.
22. FoodieView: Use this search engine to discover new recipes from across the Web. Search by ingredient, dish, cuisine and more to find ideas at places such as Recipe Zaar and AllRecipes.com.
23. Epicurious’ Heart-Healthy Recipes: Heart-healthy food doesn’t need to look drab – go for such dishes as the Asian Spinach Salad with Orange and Avocado to whet your appetite.
24. Healthy Cooking: This site carries low-fat and vegetarian recipes as well as healthy-heart recipes. They also carry articles on various health needs.
25. Healthy Online Recipes: This entire site is devoted to heart-healthy recipes (including a cold raspberry souffle!).
26. My Recipes: You can find a month’s worth of heart-healthy recipes in this section of My Recipes.
27. Recipe: Visit this section of Recipe’s Web site to learn more about heart-healthy recipes for lunches, dinners and desserts.
28. Spectrum’s Healthy Kitchen: Spectrum, which produces organic products and that now is part of The Hain Celestial Group, offers a database filled with recipes and menu ideas. Search by course, ingredient or by special diet.
29. Taste Book: If you want some quick recipes, Taste Book carries a list of 30-minute heart-healthy ideas.

Other Sites

30. About’s Heart Healthy Recipes: These recipes are low in cholesterol, and include lunch, low-fat desserts and links to many more About pages filled with great heart-loving ideas for menus.
31. Alive: This is the online version of Canada’s magazine focused on health and wellness. If you are craving Sesame Lime Soba Noodles with Shiitake Mushrooms and Snow Peas, go to this site now.
32. Bed and Breakfast: Sample some heart-healthy recipes served at some bed and breakfast inns throughout the country. While breakfast is a focus, you also can find some side dishes and two fritatta recipes.
33. Better Homes and Gardens’ Heart-Healthy Living: Use this portion of this online magazine’s site to learn more about how to create heart-healthy dishes and meal plans.
34. Everyday Health: This site’s healthy living center provides recipes that are heart friendly and easy to make.
35. Flora’s Heart Healthy Recipes: Best known for its butter alternatives, this company offers some ideas for recipes that will appeal to people on the go and for entire families.
36. Ladies’ Home Journal Healthy Recipes: Learn about healthy diet basics and try low fat, heart-healthy recipes that are easy to make.
37. Reader’s Digest’s Heart-Healthy Recipes: This section of the Reader’s Digest Web site contains recipes that are low in sodium and that include ingredients that reduce cholesterol and improve heart health.
38. RealAge: Live life to the youngest with this site’s delicious heart-healthy recipes that will appeal to your heart, belly and taste buds.
39. Revolution Health’s Heart Healthy Recipes: From appetizers to main dishes and desserts, this page carries over 100 recipes that will help fill that heart-healthy menu.
40. Smart Heart Living: A person who is recovering from heart disease offers an entire site filled with hints, tips, ideas and yummy recipes.
41. Zorba Paster: This Wisconsin Public Radio personality maintains a page filled with heart-healthy recipes for anyone to use.

Articles

42. 10 Tips for Fixing Heart Healthy Recipes: This is an easy-to-read article that provides easy tips on switching to a heart-healthy food plan.
43. Heart-Healthy Spring Recipes: You can use Good Housekeeping’s recipes all year round – the focus here really is on how to eat meat and still eat healthy.
44. Healthy Recipes: HelpGuide provides an article that explains why healthy eating is good for your heart. Recipes included.
45. Heart Healthy Bread Machine Recipes: This Organized Wisdom article offers ideas to help reduce the danger lurking in unhealthy bread choices.
46. Heart Healthy Recipes: Hosted by Redding Crave.com and sponsored by Healthy Shasta, this page lists a variety of heart-healthy ideas.
47. iVillage Heart-Healthy Recipes: Click through the eight images for about three-five recipes per image. You’ll start with salmon and tuna ideas and end with a few ideas about what to do with that red wine.
48. Lowfat recipes for heart health: Self online magazine offers low-fat recipes that include burgers, cheesecake and all those other foods that you’ve come to love (but that have hurt your health).
49. Spring Heart-Healthy Recipes: About Olive Oil offers a list of heart-healthy recipes, including a recipe for Minted Citrus Tea Cookies.
50. Woman’s Day: This online version of Woman’s Day Magazine offers ten “tasty” heart-healthy recipes to try.

Some of the most hardworking and dedicated people in the medical field are nurses. Nurses are there for us when we are hurt, and when we need immediate help. They have very stressful jobs that can be time consuming and inconvenient. However, many of them go in every day — and listen to us gripe. It’s no surprise that some nurses need to vent. Here are some of the top nurse practitioner blogs and Web sites that can give you helpful insight into what goes on in the life of a nurse.

General Nurse Practitioner Blogs

A nurse practitioner is someone who has gone above and beyond regular nursing requirements. These folks have completed advanced nursing education, and are trained in diagnosis of medical conditions, as well as management of some of these issues.

1. No Place for Old NPs: Learn about what it’s like to be a nurse practitioner in the Southwest. Also includes interesting stories and information about (anonymous) patients.
2. The Beast…: This is a heart-rending tale of a nurse practitioner’s journey with her husband, who has a rare cancer. It’s an interesting read, and one that comes from an interesting conjunction of “regular” and “medical”.
3. DukeNP99: Follow the exploits of a family nurse practitioner. An interesting look at life and medicine.
4. The Nurse Practitioner’s Place: Offers great insight into what’s its like to be a nurse practitioner. Includes policy positions and other health care related subjects.
5. A Nurse Practitioner’s View: Learn about the politics of health care, and get one nurse practitioner’s ideas of how things should be done.
6. The Nervewracking Nurse Practitioner: Another blog devoted to considering the politics of health care.
7. New NP: A firsthand account of what it’s like to be a new nurse practitioner. Interesting accounts of the profession and the lifestyle.
8. Bailey Blog: This nurse practitioner offers a glimpse into life as a practitioner trying to balance life, family and work.
9. HospiceNP: Hospice nurses provide a great deal of comfort. Follow the life one hospice nurse practitioner.
10. A GrumpyRN: This nurse practitioner has been in the health care industry for 25 years. An interesting look at life in Britain’s NHS.
11. Jennosaurus Rex: This nursing student is working on a degree and thinking about specializing. Great insight into the road to becoming a nurse practitioner.

Nursing Blogs

There are some great nursing blogs out there written by folks that may not be “official” nurse practitioners. These nurses still have a great deal of insight, and have many qualifications through their training and experiences. And some of the below are nurse practitioners, or on their way to becoming such.

12. Warrior Mom: This family nurse practitioner writes about her life as a mom, and a nursing teacher.
13. NeoNurseChic: Even though updates on this blog are sporadic, the NeoNurse’s take on current events related to medicine and health care are worth reading.
14. Nurse Pickle: Learn about life for some who has only been a nurse for a short time.
15. Drug Pusher: Get the rantings of an ER nurse who sees more than anyone’s fair share of heroin addicts.
16. Head Nurse: This blog is a bit irreverent and deals with the issues associated with health care and dealing with other professionals.
17. The Makings of a Nurse: Learn what it is like to strive to become a nurse, and get insight on what nursing should be all about.
18. March of the Platypi: An interesting blog with patient stories and nurse insights.
19. Just Up the Dose: The adventures of a medical intern in South Africa, doing community service and working in the nursing field.
20. The Magical Mystery Land of Community Health: This nurse changes names to protect the guilty, and shares their crazy stories.
21. Running a Hospital: This is an interesting blog about hospital management and how things work from the CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Nursing and Medical Industry News Blogs

There is always a lot going on in the medical field. You can keep up to date by checking in with a variety of nursing and other medical industry news blogs.

22. www.nppplace.com: Get an interesting look at issues in today’s medical news. Tackles nurse practitioner issues from a number of sides.
23. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners: Get news, debate and the latest health information.
24. Dear Nurses: Stay up to date on the latest happenings in the field of nursing, and get some helpful tips.
25. Clinical Cases and Images: An interesting blog that provides images and information facts and news related to medicine.
26. Nursing Law & Order: A great way to learn about current legal issues in nursing and the news.
27. What’s New in Nursing: This blog aggregates some of the best news posts from around the Internet to help you stay on top of things.
28. Off the Charts: Commentary on the medical and nursing news of the day.
29. Nursing Research: Show me the evidence: Learn about the latest in nursing research, and how to apply it in your practice.
30. Resources for Nurses and Families: This blog offers a great many news and information resources to help keep you up to date.
31. The MedFriendly Blog: This blog is written by a neuropsychologist and offers helpful information that can benefit nurses and nurse practitioners.

Nurse Practitioner Career Blogs

Keeping up with your career is important in any profession. There are a number of great blogs that can help you chart your career path as a nurse practitioner.

32. Nurse Practitioner Business Owner Blog: This nurse practitioner has some helpful advice and information for business owners.
33. Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Jobs: Get a little direction in your job search if you are a pediatric nurse practitioner.
34. NP Central: Related to all things having to do with a nurse practitioner career.
35. NP Freebies: Get downloadable nurse practitioner templates to aid you as you run your own business.
36. Career Transitions and Other Nurse Topics: While this site includes other nursing related topics, the main thrust is career transitions.
37. Nursing Jobs and Gossip in the Workplace: A look at the life of a career nurse. Deals with workplace issues.
38. Nurse Leads: Get helpful hints and leads for your next job.
39. Nursing Job A Day: Get a daily dose of what’s available in nursing jobs to help boost your career.
40. Nursing Jobs Plus: Find job leads and post your resume.
41. Nursing Career Blog: Get helpful insight into what you can do to improve your career.
42. I Love Travel Nursing: Learn more about how you can be a travel nurse and make money as a nurse while seeing the world.
43. Health Careers: This blog from About.com provides helpful hints for health care professionals, including nurse practitioners.

Nursing Forums and Community Blogs

Become more involved. Join a nursing community or blog and participate actively in discussions and help others find the answers they are looking for.

44. The Nursing Site Blog: Information and insight from a variety of nurses on today’s issues.
45. allnurses.com: This community forum features blog posts from different nurses, discussions, and the ability to connect with other nurse practitioners.
46. Nursing Dynamics and Clinical Issues: Keep track of others, and find support and help for issues you might be facing.
47. Nurse.com Forums: Ask questions, get answers and share your wisdom.
48. Nurse Forum: This community from NurseTV offers helpful insights and a place where you can find support and career resources.
49. Healthcare POV: Get a look at health care issues that are big right now, and weigh in with your own opinion.
50. Message Boards and Blogs: This is from Nurse Zone, and provides you wil a variety of nurse practitioner blogs and conversations.

Are you searching for authoritative answers to medical questions online? In 2004, Chris Sherman at Search Engine Watch warned readers about the difficulties of obtaining accurate and credible health information online. Does this problem still exist? Or, have medical search engines become more user-friendly and accurate?

The problem concerning inaccurate information may always exist, even when many available resources offer updated, credible and accurate information. Even when reliable information is available, the issue remains that many people do not know about these resources because of lack of Web skills, lack of critical thinking skills, lack of English-speaking skills and the abundance of Web sites that often contain outdated information. Additionally, many search engines now ask for symptoms and return a variety of diagnoses that may or may not help an individual cope with a serious disease or injury.

To help remedy some of these problems, the following top 25 health and medical search engines list contains tools designed for both consumers and health professionals. Use these search engines to explore answers to queries from across the Web as well as from self-contained repositories. All resources are constantly updated, and they are listed in alphabetical order to show readers that we do not favor one search engine over another.

Finally, no search engine can “fix” a medical problem. When in doubt, consult a professional about your symptoms.

1. Dr. Weil: Use this site to search for integrative approaches to medical treatments for any number of health issues. This is a consumer resource that many health professionals use to sty connected with a growing field of integrative medicine philosophy.
2. Gopubmed: a medical search engine that won a design award for the “best of the best” of 2009 for its semantic filters.
3. Healia: This consumer site contains a health search engine that filters information from an online health community, health news and tips and consumer-friendly information guides.
4. Health on the Net Foundation (HON, or HON MedHunt): Search all medical Web sites with this engine. HON’s mission is to “guide the growing community of healthcare consumers and providers on the World Wide Web to sound, reliable medical information and expertise.”
5. HealthBase: This is a beta site that is testing a new semantic search technology intended for health-related searches. Searches include treatments, causes, complications and information about drugs, foods and chemicals gathered from around the Internet.
6. Healthfinder: This is a government Web site designed for consumers to find information and tools on health topics culled from over 1,600 government and non-profit organizations.
7. Healthline: Healthline was the first consumer medical search engine to focus on delivering results from trusted, high-quality healthcare Web sites.
8. Mayo Clinic: Search for diseases and conditions as well as information offered by more than 3,300 physicians, scientists and researchers from Mayo Clinic.
9. MEDgle: Search over 10,000 symptoms, over 2,100 diagnoses, thousands of drugs and over 6,000 medical procedures in a site designed for consumers to learn more about personal health.
10. MedHelp: This is a consumer site that offers searches for doctors, health topics and news and information about all types of physical conditions, remedies and treatment issues.
11. Medic8: This UK site is a leading medical information Web site for health care professionals and consumers. The focus is global, and the information covers health issues, policies and more.
12. MedicineNet: This is a self-contained research post for consumers to find easy-to-read and authoritative information about medicine, healthcare, Internet technology and the health care business.
13. MediLexicon: MediLexicon contains searches, information, news and resrouces for the medical, pharmaceutical and healthcare professional.
14. MedlinePlus: This is a government-operated site that is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of health. Preformulated Medline searches are included in MedlinePlus and offer easy access to medical journal articles.
15. Medscape: This site offers integrated medical information and educational tools for specialists, primary care physicians and other health professionals. This site is affiliated with WebMD health Professional Network.
16. My Optum Health: Health sometimes is only skin deep, but larger issues can loom internally, emotionally and mentally. This site focuses on the broader issues for consumers through searches for diseases, “health hub” topics and more.
17. NOAH: NOAH stands for new York Online Access to Health. This site, offered in English and in Spanish, provides a topic listing, an indexed alphabetical list of conditions or health issues and more for consumers.
18. National Library of Medicine: The U.S. National Institutes of Health provides information on health and medicine for public consumption, for healthcare professionals, for researchers, librarians and publishers through this portal.
19. Net Wellness: Search this site’s collection of Net Wellness articles and reports and the Adam Health Encyclopedia.
20. OmniMedicalSearch: Named a top 5 Health Search Engine by About.com, and the Washington Post claimed, “The searches are fast and productive.” Search for conditions, diseases, reference matter and doctors.
21. Organized Wisdom: over 100,000 health topics are included in this site’s search engine. The site also includes innovative “Wisdom Cards” that physicians and expert guides update regularly and that focus on health information across the board.
22. Pogofrog: This search engine looks for credible medical information for physicians as it “jumps” over consumer search results to find information designed for health care professionals from resources such as FDA, peer-review journal sites, association sites and more.
23. PubMed: This site is a service of the U.S. National Library of medicine and covers over 19 million citations from Medline and other life-science journals fo biomedical articles back to 1948.
24. The New England Journal of Medicine: The Massachusetts Medical Society publishes this journal and provides a search for topics covered in past issues at this site.
25. WebMD: Searches focus on articles, tools and information contained within this site, with insights into drugs, supplements, nutrition, psychological and family care and mental health.

Most times your kids fall sick and you rush to the hospital without a clue of what they may be suffering from. Not being able to know what they are going through can worry you a lot. They could be just suffering from gas but you have no idea of what is going on. You need to get iPhone applications that will turn you to Dr. Mom. There are hundreds of applications available with all sorts of information that you will find useful. Here are some of the applications that you will find useful in dealing with the kid’s health and fitness. They can be a lifesaver in case of an emergency.
Quick Pharmacy
This application will provide you with information concerning different drugs, their prescriptions, dosage guidelines, symptoms and the likely side effects of the drugs. You can use this application to view the usually dosages and directions for the use of thousands of treatment drugs. This application is useful when you buy medication for your sick child and you need to find out how you should give it to them.

The Symptom Navigator
This helps you to match symptoms with their treatments. It uses an image of the human body to offer possible causes of the symptoms and their treatment methods. It also tells you whether the situation is serious and you need to call a doctor immediately. This can be useful when you are traveling and your kid falls sick along the way. It may be hours to a hospital, you can use this application to match the kid’s symptoms with any prescription drugs that you can get from the nearest pharmacy.

The Pocket First Aid Guide
This is a custom-designed first aid guide. It will assist you to treat almost anything such as bee stings, bruises, burns, eye injuries etc.  They may get involved in many accidents while playing out with their friends. Naturally, kids like to play and explore and it is quite difficult to prevent them from doing so; furthermore it is through play and interactions with others that they learn and grow. This guide will help you treat the injuries that may occur to them in the course of play.

MyNetDiary
You can use this application to analyze and plan your kid’s diets. You can find nutrition guidelines, track the kid’s body fat, lean muscle percentage and bone density. There is a display feature on the nutrient chart that shows how proteins, fats, carbohydrates add to your kids calories. This application will be useful in maintaining your kids’ fitness and health by keeping a proper exercise and food program

The iPhone Emergency Card
You can use this application to store the kid’s health records, contact records of family members, hospitals and other information. This information may include the kid’s allergies, blood type, side effects etc. This will help you maintain a good, clear record of your kid’s health information that could prove useful incase somebody else is left to take care of your kids and an emergency occurs.

Online Nurse Practitioner Programs is a flexible online program designed for working adults who would like to get hold of respected accredited degrees without having to bring to a halt their working or their existing careers. The programs consist of the learning to diagnose and manage chronic illnesses, frequent medical conditions, and put to the fore a variety of other healthcare services to patients while working in the fast growing profession. Nurse practitioners in this program are registered nurses who have completed an advanced training program in a medical specialty such as pediatrics or internal medicine that is pursued online.

Nurse practitioners main function is primary direct provider of health care and prescribes medications to the sick, or maybe in charge of research. The online nurse practitioner programs encompasses the advanced practice nurse, certified nurse midwife, certified nurse practitioner, certified registered nurse anesthetist, clinical nurse specialist, clinical in mental health nursing, farming nurse practitioner and so on.

Online nurse practitioner programs builds through the pursuing of an online BSN (bachelor’s degree in nursing) which is mostly in a span of two years. Nurse practitioner programs can be specialized in some of these areas like in neonatal nursing, pediatric nursing, community health nursing, acute care nursing and so many other areas of specialty in nursing. One of the prerequisites for most online practitioner programs is that you be a registered nurse.

Some of the top online nurse practitioner schools are the University of Phoenix, Kaplan University, university of Cincinnati and also Gonzaga university just but a few. Some of the majority online nurse practitioner programs are master’s degree in nursing with a concentration in women’s health, master’s degree in nursing with a concentration in family health and also a master’s degree in nursing with a concentration in acute or specialized tracks.