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• Sparkpeople.com- the ONLY premium and personalized weight loss and healthy living program available on-line for free. Food log, weight, and exercise tracker plus a lot more!
• FitDay - Free food log and exercise tracker
• Fitprofile - Non-program specific fitness profile site
• 600 exercises at bodybulding.com - how many calories are you burning?
• Fitness Jumpsite - Activity Calorie calculator (type in your weight & activity minutes.)
• Fitness Tools and Calculators at Natural Physiques
• Hussman’s BMR calculator
• Basal Energy Expenditure: Harris-Benedict Equation - Allows you to estimate your Basal Energy Expeniture. Also contains links to other medical calculators.
• Fitness Buddy Body fat test at biofitness.com - claims that their method is 3.5% (+ or -) as accurate as a hydrostatic water tank test ($50 to $100) and .7% (+ or -) as accurate as a multi-site skin caliper test ($15 to $25).
• Body Fat Calculator - This Body Fat calculator is based on a formula developed by the US Navy.
• Active.com - pretty accurate body fat circumference body fat calculator. About 2-3% + or -
• Rusty Iron Body Fat Calculators Enter your three or seven site caliper measurements here and have the site calculate your body fat for you!
• MyBodyComp A circumference-based body fat calculator (no caliper needed, but measuring tape would be handy)
• Health Status Calculators - many handy calculators including body fat estimator, body mass index, calories burned, daily energy expenditure, frame size, ideal weight… and more!
• am-i-fat.com - another body fat% calculator
• Body Fat Estimator at sixpacknow.com - This Body Fat Calculator will give an approximation of your current body fat levels. For visible six pack abdominals a body fat percentage of 15% or lower for women and 10% or lower for men is required.
• Caloriesperhour - How many more diets do you want to go on? Many many tools you need for FREE!
• Better Ideal Weight - set a REALISTIC “Ideal Weight” for your body.
• USDA Interactive tools - Many many links to check your health risks, design your diet, calculators & counters, and to test your knowledge. Links include:
  • How Can You Lower Your Cholesterol
    DHHS. NIH. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
    Features heart healthy and therapeutic lifestyle changes for treatment and preventing heart disease. Provides meal plans, grocery shopping, reading food labels, and dining out.
  • Personal Fitness Planner
    Dairy Council of California.
    Helps adolescents determine physical activity levels.
  • MyPyramid Tracker
    USDA. Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion.
    An online dietary assessment that provides information on diet quality, related nutrition messages, and links to nutrient information. Also assesses physical activity. Note: Replaces the Interactive Healthy Eating Index
  • Interactive Menu Planner
    DHHS. NIH. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
    Helps user plan meals to meet specific calorie requirements.
  • Eat Smart. Play Hard. for Kids
    USDA. Food and Nutrition Service.
    Web page which connects kids to healthy eating and physical activity interactive learning and skill-building experiences within a virtual community setting. Includes songs, experiments, activity sheets, comics, clipart, worksheets, games, posters, e-cards, recipes, and more.
  • Estimating Your 10-Year Risk of Having a Heart Attack
    DHHS. NIH. National Cholesterol Education Program.
    Risk assessment tool to predict an onset of a heart attack.
  • and many, many, many, many more!!!

** More in the Downloads - Spreadsheets/Worksheets section

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