Lifestyle Questionnaires

The New Medicine: My Health Planner   Assess and plan action steps in eight categories of your life: Diet & Nutrition, Exercise & Fitness, Stress Mastery, Emotions and Attitudes, Healthcare & Self-Care, Life Purpose and Service, Relationships and Family, Spirituality

Holistic Lifestyle Questionnaire     This free 50 or 100 question assessment encompasses the full spectrum of wellness and emphasizes the importance of creating balance in one's life. Categories explored are Physical, Emotional, Social, Intellectual, Occupational, Spiritual.

Know Your Numbers: When you know your numbers you have the power to change them. A risk factor is some personal habit, condition of living, or environmental element that increases the likelihood of developing a particular disease or negative health condition at some time in the future. To reduce your risk it is prudent to attain the recommended goals on this downloadable PDF. We'd be happy to discuss this with you. This may also require a discussion with your physician relative to your personal medical condition.

Wellness Newsletters

Nutrition Action Health Letter; Center for Science in the Public Interest
www.cspinet.org

Wellness Letter - Nutrition, Fitness & Self Care; UC Berkley School of Public Health;
www.wellnessletter.com

Health and Nutrition Letter; Tufts University
www.healthletter.tufts.edu

Santa Barbara Health Source : A Directory of Integrative Health Professionals in Santa Barbara County.

If you find a website or book that contains information useful to you, email us so we can consider adding it to our links. info@hpcsb.com

Exercise & Fitness

"100 Ways to Add 2000 Steps" from America On the Move

Fitness After 50--It's Never Too Late to Start!;
Eittingr, WE; Mitchel, BS, Blair, SN; 1995

Active Living Everey Day - 20 Steps to Lifelong Vitality,
Blair, Steven, el al; 2001 www.HumanKinetics.com

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Nutrition

"100 Ways to Cut 100 Calories" from America On the Move

5 A Day the Color Way: Tips on How to Include 5 Servings a Day of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. Tips for Snacks, Breakfast, Lunch &  Dinner, Dessert, Eat Healthy, Entertaining, Kids, Shopping, Serving

Fiber - Soluble and Insoluble Food Sources for obtaining the recommended 20 to 35 grams of dietary fiber per day. 

American Dietetic Association  Food and nutrition experts translate the science of nutrition into practical solutions for healthy living. Visit often to get timely, science-based food and nutrition information you can trust.

United States Department of Agriculture One size doesn't fit all. Includes the MyPyramid Plan, which offers a personal eating plan with the foods and amounts that are right for you. Has MyPyramid Tracker, a tool to track your food intake and physical activity.  Use the advice Inside MyPyramid to help you,

The Omega Diet, Simopoulos, AP, 1999

The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet Action Plan, Heller, Marla; 2004

Healthy Eating Every Day; Carpinter, RE; Finley, CE; 2005 www.HumanKinetics.com

The Volumetrics Weight Control Plan, Barbara Rolls, PhD, 2002

Eat, Drink and Be Healthy, Walter Willett, MD, Harvard Medical School, 2005

What to Eat, Marion Nestle, 2007

Consumer Labs — An excellent and authoritative site for information on herbs. A membership fee is charged for some of this information.

Mayo Clinic Supplement and Drug Information A free service that gives A-F ratings on effectiveness and safety of supplements

National Institute of Health  - Office of Dietary Supplements A free site that is updated regularly. Safety alerts and articles are very useful. 

Supplement Watch   Ingredient reviews are free.  For a small monthly fee,

access to experts and brand-name product reviews is provided. 

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Stress Reduction

The Wellness Plan,  Herbert Benson, MD, Eileen Stuart, RN, MS;
Multiple topics including stress reduction

Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Handbook,
David Sobel, MD,  Robert Ornstein, PhD

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