Online Tutorials and Tools in Health and Wellness

Web Resources

• Ankle Sprain (2 min. 10 sec.)
• Bad Fats Brothers
• Better Fat Sisters 
• Calculate Your Body Mass Index
• Calculate Your Daily Calorie Needs
• Disease Risk Index
• Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
• Exercise Counts: How Many Calories Will Your Activity Burn?
• Exercise for Older Adults  
• For Your Heart
  
• High Blood Cholesterol
• Interactive Menu Planner
• Learn and Live Quiz
• Make Your Calories Count 
• MedlinePlus Health Check Tools
• MedlinePlus Health Topics
• MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorials
• MedlinePlus Wellness and Lifestyle  

• My Family Health Portrait 
• MyPyramid.gov: Steps to a Healthier You
• NCCAM Image Gallery
• Nutrition and Activity Quiz
• Risk Assessment Tool for Estimating Your 10-Year Risk of Having a Heart Attack 
• Target Heart Rate Calculator
• Test Your Cholesterol IQ
• To Draw Your Family Tree
  
• Together for HIV and AIDS Prevention: A Toolkit for the Sports Community
• Tools & Resources (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

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Video Webcasts in Health and Wellness

These short 1-2 minute videos are restricted to TLU students, faculty, and staff
Physical Fitness  |  Nutrition and Weight Control  |  Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being  |  Accident Prevention  |  Disease Prevention

• Acceleration Training (1 min. 54 sec.)
• Doing Bicep Curls The Right Way (1 min. 41 sec.)
• Marathon Tips (1 min. 45 sec.)
• Olympian Eyes Gold Despite Diabetes (3 min. 50 sec.)
• Positioning Yourself for Perfect Form (12 min. 32 sec.)
• Staying Strong Through the Years (1 min. 34 sec.)
• Tips on Running a 5K (2 min. 28 sec.)
• Training to Run Without Pounding the Pavement (1 min. 44 sec.)
• Weight Training Tips: How to Maximize Your Workout (12 min. 32 sec.)

• Can Your Diet Help You Keep Your Hair? (10 min. 20 sec.)
• Coping with Cravings While Losing Weight  (1 min. 41 sec.)
  
• Emotional Eating - When Food is Your Best Friend  (1 min. 56 sec.)
  
• Gut-friendly Nutrition: Eating Right for GI Health  (6 min. 5 sec.)  
  

• Why Weight Matters: Obesity and Your Health (5 min. 14 sec.)
  

•  An Introduction to Yoga (1 min. 47 sec.)
• Anxiety and Acupuncture (1 min. 44 sec.)
  
• The Benefits of Yoga for Breast Cancer Patients (1 min. 29 sec.)
  
• Changing your Habits May Help You Get a Good Night's Sleep (1 min. 36 sec.)
  
• Dealing with the Emotional Fallout of Type 2 Diabetes (1 min. 40 sec.)
• Fear and Anxiety (2 min. 8 sec.)
  
• Gaining Control Over Sleep Problems (5 min. 20 sec.)
  
• How Music Heals the Body as Well as the Soul (1 min. 58 sec.)
  
• Job Stress: How to Keep Your Cool (17 min. 57 sec.)
  
• Life After a Heart Attack (2 min. 11 sec.)
  
• Man's Best Friend Helps with Occupational Therapy (1 min. 40 sec.)
  
• Massaging Baby's Stress Away (1 min. 59 sec.)
  
• Measuring and Enhancing Quality of Life During Breast Cancer   (4 min. 16 sec.) 
  
• Meditate Your Stress Away (1 min. 37 sec.)
  
• Mental Gymnastics: How Does Stress Hurt Your Athletic Performance? (12 nub, 51 sec.)
• Music Class for Babies and Their Moms (1 min. 52 sec.)
  
• Music Therapy Helps Parkinson's Patients Move (1 min. 44 sec.)
• Next Steps After a Diagnosis (7 min. 59 sec.)
  
• Non-Pharmacological Approaches to Migraine Prevention (3 min. 34 sec.)
• Overcoming Anxiety (5 min. 44 sec.)
  
• Overcoming Disabilities by Making Music (2 min. 8 sec.)
  
• The Power of Visualization (16 min. 7 sec.)
• Prenatal Yoga - Getting Ready for the Big Day (1 min. 55 sec.)
  
• Preventing Migraines through Lifestyle Changes (1 min. 45 sec.)
• Prevention and Treatment of Jet Lag (5 min. 19 sec.) 
• The Psychological Impact of Hair Loss (9 min. 5 sec.)
• Psychological Issues of the Abortion Pill (7 min. 8 sec.)
  
• Sleeping Well During the Holidays (5 min. 46 sec.)
  
• Staying Healthy Through Stress Reduction (2 min. 51 sec.)
• Stress and Heart Disease: Part 1 (5 min. 8 sec.)
  
• Stress and Heart Disease: Part 2 (4 min. 53 sec.)
• The Stress of Cancer: When to Seek Help (5 min. 20 sec.)
  

• Treating Anxiety (1 min. 43 sec.)
  

• Virtual Reality Therapy  (1 in. 35 sec.)
  

• What Can You Do About Insomnia?  (4 min. 57 sec.)
  

• What to Do When Your Job is Stressing You Out  (1 min. 58 sec.)
  

• When Worries Surface at Night: Sleep and Anxiety  (5 min. 38 sec.)
  

• Yoga for Children  (2 min. 3 sec.)
  

• Yoga for Moms and Their Babies  (2 min. 1 sec.)
  

• Yoga for New Moms  (2 min. 8 sec.)
• Yoga - Offering Strength and Balance in the Preteen Years  (1 min. 35 sec.)
  

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• Avoiding Injury as a Video Game Athlete (2 min.)
  

• Dodging Lower Back Pain (1 min. 38 sec.)
  

• Finding Relief for Your Aching Back (1 min. 41 sec.)
  

• Head Smarts: A Young Biker's Story (5 min. 34 sec.)
  

• Injury Prevention for Five- to Eight-Year-Olds: At Home (9 min. 38 sec.)
  

• Injury Prevention for Five- to Eight-Year-Olds: At Play (7 min. 7 sec.)
  

• Injury Prevention for Five- to Eight-Year-Olds: On the Playground (1 min. 47 sec.)
  

• Injury Prevention for Five- to Eight-Year-Olds: On the Street (1 min. 47 sec.)
  

• Injury Prevention for Three- to Four-Year-Olds: At Home  (9 min. 42 sec.)
• Injury Prevention for Three- to Four-Year-Olds: Outside the Home  (6 min. 55 sec.)
  

• Injury Prevention in Preteens: At Play  (8 min. 56 sec.)
  

• Making Home Safe for Your Baby (1 min. 30 sec.)
• Repetitive Strain Injury - Causes & Symptoms (1 min. 42 sec.)
• Repetitive Strain Injury - Prevention

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Disease Prevention:

• Adherence in HIV Disease: How One Person Keeps on Track (3 min. 2 sec.)
• Alcohol and Your Liver  (10 min. 39 sec.)
• Are You at Risk for a Stroke?  (5 min. 2 sec.)
• Are You at Risk for Osteoporosis?  (6 min. 3 sec.)
• Arthritis: Who's At Risk?  (30 sec.)
  
• Breast Cancer Detection  (6 min. 33 sec.)
• Breast Cancer Genetics  (7 min. 59 sec.)
• Can Cardiovascular Disease be Prevented?  (2 min. 8 sec.)
• Chlamydia: Prevention and Treatment  (15 min. 44 sec.)
• Chorionic Villus Sampling: Is it Right for You?  (16 min. 50 sec.)
• Complications of Type 2 Diabetes  (1 min. 53 sec.)
• Controlling Asthma During Pregnancy  (5 min. 15 sec.)
• Controlling Cholesterol Counts  (6 min. 5 sec.)
• Crohn's Disease and Colitis: A Higher Risk for Colorectal Cancer?  (4 min. 12 sec.)
• Diet and Lifestyle Changes for Congestive Heart Failure  (10 min. 37 sec.)
• Epilepsy and Pregnancy: Keeping Your Baby Healthy  (9 min. 36 sec.)
• Fight the Bite: Tips for Preventing Lyme Disease  (25 min. 7 sec.)
• The Flu - An Ounce of Prevention Equals a Pound of Cure  (1 min. 33 sec.)
• From Mole to Melanoma: Skin Cancer Explained  (16 min. 38 sec.)
• The Grim Reaper: Club Drugs And HIV  (5 min. 12 sec.)
• Heart Disease Facts: What Every Woman Should Know  (6 min. 18 sec.)
• Hepatitis C: Are You a Silent Carrier?  (5 min. 46 sec.)
• Herpes: What Everyone Should Know  (15 min. 10 sec.)
• High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease: How Are They Connected?  (9 min. 10 sec.)
• How Can Cholesterol Management Help Prevent Heart Disease in Women?  (2 min. 24 sec.)
• How to Deal With Herpes  (7 min. 17 sec.)
• Hypertension and Diabetes: Treatment Goals  (6 min. 32 sec.)
• IBD and Colorectal Cancer: Keeping a Close Watch  (7 min. 23  sec.)
• Keeping Healthy: Avoiding Risky Behaviors  (2 min. 7 sec.)
• Keeping Type 2 Diabetes Under Control  2 min. 6 sec.)
• Lyme Disease Symptoms  (1 min. 46 sec.)
• Manicure & Pedicure Hazards  (1 min. 50 sec.)
• Medicine and Gender: How Men and Women are Different  (7 min. 58 sec.)
• The Myths about Heart Disease and Women  (1 min. 59 sec.)
• Nutrition for Cancer Prevention  (1 min. 54 sec.)
• Nutritional Supplements: Can They Help With Heart Disease?  (11 min. 43 sec.)
• Once-Daily Medicines for HIV Disease  (4 min. 2 sec.)
• Pain Medications and the Risk of GI Complications  (5 min. 40 sec.)
• Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Disease You Should Know About  (6 min. 46 sec.)
• Planning for Pregnancy When You Have Epilepsy  (6 min. 47 sec.)
• Postpartum Risk Factors  (1 min. 45 sec.)
• Pregnancy and Asthma: Communicating With Your Doctor  (5 min. 15 sec.)
• Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence: What's Right for Me?  (5 min. 3 sec.)
• Protect Yourself from Lyme Disease  (1 min. 50 sec.)
• Recognizing Lyme Disease  (9 min. 32 sec.)
• Recurrent Yeast Infections: Should You Worry?  (6 min. 32 sec.)
• Say ALOHA to Heart Disease  (6 min. 54 sec.)
• Secondary Prevention: Stopping the Next Stroke  (8 min. 15 sec.)
  
• Should You Get a Bone Density Test?  (15 min. 22 sec.)
• Sleep and Heart Disease: What's the Link?  (x min. x sec.)
• Stress and Heart Disease: Part 1  (5 min. 8 sec.)
• Stress and Heart Disease: Part 2  (4 min. 53 sec.)
• The Threat of Bird Flu  (5 min. 13 sec.)
• Treating Asthma During Pregnancy: Choosing the Right Medicine  (5 min. 15 sec.)
• Treating Lyme Disease  (5 min. 4 sec.)
• Treatment Risks in Adult ADHD  (4 min. 33 sec.)
• The Truth about Childhood Immunizations and Risk  (1 min. 30 sec.)
• Type 2 Diabetes: Is It More Than Just Blood Sugar?  (6 min. 25 sec.)
• Using Creativity to Combat Alzheimer's  (3 min. 48 sec.)
• What Are the Implications of Metabolic Syndrome on Heart Disease?  (2 min. 35 sec.)
  
• What Conditions Can Lead to Heart Failure?  (6 min. 56 sec.)
• What is Congestive Heart Failure?  (1 min. 40 sec.)
• What is Peripheral Arterial Disease?  (4 min. 26 sec.)
• What Should Women Know About Heart Disease?  (3 min. 3 sec.)
• Who's at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes?  (1 min. 37 sec.)
• Why is Summer Kidney Stone Season?  (2 min. 29 sec.)
• Women and Heart Disease - Causes and Symptoms  (2 min. 8 sec.)
• Women and Heart Disease - Prevention and Risk Factors  (1 min. 53 sec.)

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