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Healthy Living
ResourcesThe staff of Healthy
Living Today has searched the web for the most useful and content-rich sites
related to healthy living. Here's the cream of the crop:
Healthy Eating
Healthy Recipes
The Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipe Archive
- filled with thousands of low-fat,
vegetarian recipes submitted by site visitors around the world.
FoodFit.com - an
extensive collection of tips, recipes, and advice on healthy eating and
cooking.
Delicious
Decisions - sponsored by the American Heart Association, provides
recipes and shopping tips for healthy eating.
Organic Foods
Organic Consumers Association
- provides background information and
research of interest to consumers
Links Organic
- provides an extensive collection of
links to organic products and services.
Organic Kitchen
- an extensive collection of links concerning organic foods, restaurants,
farms, cooking, and gardening
Healthy Travel
Adventure Travel
Adventure
Travel Tips - known
as the Global Adventure Community, this site offers a detailed directory of
all kinds of adventure travel options from animal treks to whale watching.
Adventure
Sports Online - labeled as
‘your inside resource for outside adventure,’ this site includes
directories, online marketplaces to purchase gear, and adventure related
links.
Mad4adventure.com -
website based out of the U.K., which includes news on adventure travel,
flight and booking options, and more.
TravelByGPS.com - this
practical site allows you to download free GPS maps. Available ones range
from snowmobile trails in Araphahoe National Forest, Colorado to tourist
spots in the country of Jordan.
iExplore.com
- National Geographic's site for adventure travel.
Ecotourism
International Ecotourism
Society - provides an overview of ecotourism issues for both
consumers and those in the industry.
Planeta.com - specializes in
ecotourism reporting and focuses on ecotourism, conservation, and
responsible travel. The site has an immense amount of information ( more
than 10,000 pages) written by experts in the field.
Conservation International - the
website of Conservation International, an organization dedicated to
conserving global bio-diversity. It’s a good site to background yourself on
the conservation issues of the world, highlighting conservation regions
around the world.
Big Volcano
Ecotourism Resource Centre - contains a solid
collection of research papers and articles related to ecotourism.
Ecotour - sponsored by Conservation
International, a useful website that serves as a link to finding ecotourism
destination and tour operators.
Healthy You
Natural Health
Total Health Through Natural
Healing: Dr.
Laurie Steelsmith - promotes women's health through the integration of
Chinese and western medicine; author of
Natural Choices for Women's Health .
Healthy Family Living
Everyday
Traditions - website of Nava Atlas, author of Everyday Traditions:
Simple Family Rituals for Connection and Comfort.
Pilates
Pilates Method Alliance - a
non-profit organization dedicates to the teaching of Pilates. This site
provides background information, links to Pilates studios and classes, and
information on becoming a Pilates instructor.
Pilates Insight - refers to
itself as "an independent online guide to Pilates instruction, equipment,
and resources." This site also provides a history of Pilates, list of
related terms, and a detailed FAQ.
Pilates Fitness Journal - an
online magazine devoted to Pilates. Includes feature articles as well as
video and book reviews.
Yoga
Yoga Journal - this site covers
everything from the basics, to history, to rundown of various poses.
Santosha.com - a great resource
for step by step of different poses. Also has a collection of Yoga related
features recently covered in the news.
Traditional Yoga Studies - the
site of the Traditional Yoga Studies, which is a research and education
center. A comprehensive site that covers everything from history and
philosophy to explanation of the various types of yoga.
YogaFinder - a resource for
tracking down yoga classes, events, and more worldwide. It's the largest
yoga directory on the internet.
International Yoga Federation -
the website of the International Yoga Federation.
Mountain Biking
MountainZone.com - covers mountain biking as well as snowboarding, hiking,
skiing, climbing, and photography. Includes detailed articles as well as
solid gear reviews.
Trento Bike Pages
- includes an impressive and useful collection of
articles and route information. The focus is on biking in Europe and the
Mediterranean so if cycling through Iceland has ever been on your list of
things to do, these are superb pages to checkout and learn from.
Mountain Bike
- covers everything from equipment to event schedules. This is the
web-version of the magazine Mountain Bike.
USA Cycling
- covers mountain biking but also road, cyclo-cross, and BMX as
well. A good base to keep up to date on the professional side of the sport
as includes comprehensive race schedules for the year.
IMBA
- this is the website of the International Mountain Biking Association, a
network that preserves trail opportunities for enthusiasts of the sport
around the world.
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