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Open Thread: The "43 Folders" of health and fitness sites?

Over the last six months or so, I've gotten a lot of requests via email from people looking for (yes, thanks, more than one person called it this) "the 43 Folders of (health|exercise|fitness) sites."

Naturally I set my Google fu in motion, fully expecting to turn up dozens of excellent sites on how to stay motivated about workouts, how to eat properly, and how to psych (or "hack," if you prefer) yourself into straightening out, losing weight, and getting that fat ass in motion.

Funny thing: I came up pretty thin -- and not in that good, healthy, slender kind of thin way. In at least three sittings of searching over the past few months, I just did not turn up more than a couple of independent sites that really blew me away. Really surprising, and maybe I was just looking in the wrong places. Like under a 12-pack of beer and a rib roast.

BUT. I'm sure they're out there, and I can't think of smarter people to ask than you, so you tell me: what's your favorite website or blog about getting healthy? What are your favorite apps for tracking progress and watching a diet? Who's got the best "health hacks?"

Post your faves in comments and help your geeky friends get as theoretically fit as they are theoretically organized.

TOPICS: Links, Vox Populi
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Joel Fuhrman M.D. wrote a...

Joel Fuhrman M.D. wrote a best-selling book that proposes a pretty radical change in the American diet as a way of preventing diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

I know, I know there are a million freaking doctors who claim the same crap trying to flog vitamins and books.

But he happens to be from my hometown, he totally cured my friend's severe allergies without using any drugs at all, and none of this is voo-doo. So I checked it out. It's all based in real, published science. As far as he knows none of his patients have ever had a heart attack. So, I took my pesky psoriasis to him and now I don't have to use prescription meds any more.

Eventually, he became a client, and now I help to run a blog for him at http://www.DiseaseProof.com. Not to toot my own horn, but I think we do a pretty good job. It's updated every day, there are references and footnotes galore to major scientific studies, and it all boils down to what your grandmother said: eat right (vegetables, fruit, beans, legumes, nuts, and seeds mainly) and exercise. Only now there's all kinds of science to prove it.

 
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