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Special Feature: A Healthy You
Health sites for men and women on the web.
By Tamar Maor
Welcome to the era of health and
fitness. If you’re not concerned
about what you’re eating or how you
look, you’re certainly an exception in the
modern world. Lace up your running
shoes and prepare for a jog through the
world of health on the web.
For men concerned about looking
their finest, a great place to begin is
Guyville’s (guyville.com) health section.
You can choose from three subsections
of fitness, hair loss or well being. The fit
ness section has an extensive guide for
exercising various body parts, while the
well-being section
addresses symp
toms, explana
tions, and treat
ments for medical
conditions. The
rest of the site has
helpful information
on sports, style,
work, gadgets, and
the ever-important
woman.
There are a couple of magazines that
maintain articles from previous issues on
their web site. Men's Journal
(mensjournal.com) has a health and fit
ness section that lists about 25 articles
on anything from power toothbrushes
to Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Men’s Health maga
zine (menshealth.com) also has
excerpts from past issues on their site
in addition to current articles. The site
offers daily tips, contests, news, fea
tures and toys and tools that you can
use to help you on
your way to becom
ing a fitness guru.
The list of sites
on women’s health
never ends, but sever
al stand out. Her
Health Online (her
health.com) is a
holistic medicine site
that is extremely
informative and very
well organized. Many
people are now looking for natural alter
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natives to prescription drugs, and Her
Health Online provides a helpful guide
for current options.
Women.com’s health section
(wornen.com/health) is another excel
lent site. The site manages to cover the
topics of medicine, alternative medicine,
aging and nutrition with fun tools like a
workout planner and virtual spa.
Women.com also offers instructions on
breast self-exams or a heart-disease risk
assessment procedures.
Are the men that were reading this
article getting a little bored? Try heading
over to POP! The First
Human Male Pregnancy
(malepregnancy.com).
It’s a little hard to
determine if Mr. Lee, the
man who volunteered to
be implanted with an
embryo, is in fact real. If
true, this site is truly
amazing; if not, it’s defi
nitely entertaining.
If wacky anti-evolu
tion experiments scare
you, get back on track
with some general health sites. Set your
browser to OnHealth (onhealth.com)
where you can find health info for men,
women and children. The site has a
well-organized index including a library,
community
chat and shop
ping for the
items they rec
ommend in
their articles.
Another broad site is RealAge.com
(realage.com). It’s oriented more toward
traditional medicine: Users get specific
health information after answering a
questionnaire on a topic (such as “cold
and flu”), making the information person
alized to your ailment.
Worn out from all this running
around finding health-related web sites?
Why not try a little stretching and yoga
to wind down. •
Quickmath
quickmath.com
If you’re looking for an easy way to do math
homework, this is it. Quickmath.com solves prob
lems for most high school and college courses
including algebra, equations, inequalities, calcu
lus and matrices. Plug in a problem (I tried an
equation from a college algebra text) and get
the answer. Additionally (no pun intended!), the
help section is quite extensive.
Content: B+ Usability: B
The Philosophical Gourmet Report
blackwellpublishers.co.uk/Gourmet
This web site is an essential resource for philoso
phy students considering graduate work. The
site ranks grad schools in philosophy based
on the opinion of academic philosophers, and
further refines this data by ranking schools in
each area of philosophy, so you can see exactly
where schools stack up in subjects you want to
study. The report may be a bit long, but that
shouldn’t matter if you’re planning on spending
several years of your life at grad school!
Content: A- Usability: A
ArtServe
rubens.anu.edu.au
This site is for art history majors looking for
anything from online Botticelli pictures to web
books on ancient Roman and Greek cities—
there are over 130,000 archived images as well
as manuscripts, criticism, and historical texts.
The material ranges from photographs of
ancient Greek art, to modern artists such as
Gustav Klimt. Architecture students also can
find some historical texts here. The information
offered is useful to students interested in all
aspects of art history, although the pictures
could be larger.
Content: B+ Usability: A
Latino
Latino.com
This portal and community site for the Latino
community has two parts: LatinoLink is a commu
nity site that allows Latinos from around the
country to meet, chat, and post on message
boards. Latino.com is a portal with editorial,
news, shopping and advice, all with a Latino
emphasis. The site has special sections for edu
cation, technology—with links for bilingual tech
help—immigration, sports, and music and enter
tainment. The entire content is available in both
Spanish and English.
Content: B Usability: A