Heart problems and pregnancy: Know the risks
Heart problems require special care during pregnancy. Understand how to manage your condition and promote a healthy pregnancy.
How much do you know about what makes up a healthy lifestyle? Here's a pop quiz.
1. How do you define working out?
a. Going to the gym.
b. Turning the jump-rope for the neighbor's kid.
c. Playing Frisbee with your dog.
2. How do you define good nutrition?
a. Eating a vegetable at every meal.
b. Eating two vegetables at every meal.
c. Drinking a fruit smoothie for breakfast.
3. Which of these is a healthy activity?
a. Push-ups, sit-ups, or running the track.
b. Walking the dog after dinner.
c. Spending Saturday afternoon snoozing on the sofa.
Tips for Evaluating Health Care Information on the Web
The Internet is a great consumer health resource because it's an easily accessible place to spread and share information. However, a drawback of the Internet is that anyone can post information, regardless of the author's qualifications and the accuracy or timeliness of the information. We've compiled a list of questions and tips that you can use to evaluate web sites to help determine whether they are reliable and reputable sources of health information.
