Mick’s Picks:
Sports Nutrition – Ergogenic Aides
- American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
The largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world, ACSM has more than 20,000 International, National, and Regional Chapter members. It promotes scientific research, education, and practical applications of sports medicine and exercise science to maintain and enhance physical performance, fitness, health, and quality of life. - American Council on Exercise (ACE)®
ACE® is committed to promoting active, healthy lifestyles and their positive effects on the mind, body and spirit. - About.com – Nutrition
This web site provides numerous links on the subject of nutrition, for example, diabetes, cultural foods, education, eating advice, food safety, cancer, and many more topics. - Bright
Futures at Georgetown University – Bright Futures in Practice: Physical Activity
Select a section of the book to review, development chapters, issues and concerns, tools. - Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Nutrition & Physical Activity – Energize Your
Life!
Getting started, importance of activity, recommendations, fitness terms and resources, data and statistics, programs, youth and older adults.- A Personal Energy Plan (PEP) – 12-week self directed, work site program, promoting healthy eating and moderate activity.
- Disabled
Sports USA
Provides individuals with disabilities the opportunity to gain confidence and dignity through participation in sports, recreation and related educational programs. - Food and
Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) – Fitness, Sports, and Sports Nutrition
Part of the lifecycle nutrition website with a variety of fitness and sports nutrition topics and resources from organizations and institutes that specialize in sports medicine and exercise science research. - Get
Up. Get Out. - The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS)
This website provides health, physical activity, fitness and sports information. Learn more about this organization and its work, view publications, and link to the resources of other government agencies and to health and fitness organizations. - KidsHealth®
Search the topic “sports” for great tips for parents, kids and teens on a variety of sports subjects. - MEDLINEplus
Health Information
– Sports Fitness
Latest news, general/overviews, alternative therapy, nutrition, prevention/screening, specific conditions/aspects, journals, directories, statistics, children, seniors, teenagers, and women. - Quackwatch
Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery and Intelligent Decisions edited by Stephen Barrett, MD. - SPORTSCIENCE – sportsci.org
A Peer-Reviewed Site for Sport Research, searchable topics such as creatine. - The
Physician and Sportsmedicine Online
This web site is sponsored by the McGraw-Hill Companies source for primary care sports medicine providing both clinical and personal health articles.
