Interactive Health Tools

Do you have a cold or an allergy? Do you know your target heart rate? Would you like to learn more about how the heart functions? You’ll find answers to these questions and more by clicking on the interactive applications below. Sample topics include Diabetes, Smoking, Pregnancy, Cancer Screenings, Depression, Nutrition and many more. The applications are divided into four categories- Health Quizzes, Health Assessments, Health Calculators and Health Interactive.

Health Interactive are tools to learn more about how your body works and your risk for illnesses.

	Health Interactive:
	Anatomy of the Heart The heart helps nourish every cell and tissue in the body. About 100,000 times a day, at precisely timed intervals, a small electrical charge races from one end of your heart to the other. In response, the heart muscles spasm and squeeze blood from one chamber to the next. To learn more about the heart's structure and function, click here How High Blood Pressure Affects the Body When it’s too high, blood pressure poses a risk for your heart, brain, eyes and other parts of your body. Most of us know high blood pressure can harm the heart. But it can hurt other parts of the body too. Along with heart attacks, having blood pressure that’s too high poses a risk for stroke, kidney disease and blindness. click here Anatomy of a Heartbeat Learn what happens during each heartbeat. Your heart is a strong, muscular organ that is always working to pump blood through your body. To see what happens during each heartbeat, click here How Your Baby Develops in the Womb Every month, your unborn baby reaches another milestone. To get an idea of what's happening during each month of pregnancy, click here Preparing for Your Baby: An Interactive Shopping List Stock up on essential items before bringing your baby home. For a list of items you might want to purchase, view our interactive shopping list by clicking here. How Diabetes Affects the Body An interactive look at the damage uncontrolled diabetes can cause. Diabetes is a disease centred on insulin, a hormone produced in the pancreas that helps the body turn food into energy. Lack of insulin or problems with the way it's used can cause glucose, or sugar, to build up in the blood. This can damage the body, literally from head to toe. Controlling diabetes may prevent or lessen the severity of these problems. To learn more about how diabetes can affect the body click here A Guide to Choosing and Storing Produce How to get the most out of the fruits and veggies you buy. You’ve heard the reports and have seen the ads urging you to eat “5 A Day.” Well, help is on the way—with this guide to buying and storing fresh fruits and vegetables. click here How to Read a Food Label Wrapped around almost every packaged food you buy is your guide to finding the healthiest foods possible for you and your family: a food label. If you're willing to spend just a few moments reading the label, you'll be rewarded with both important and reliable information. click here Making Sense of Supplement Labels The label on a dietary supplement is the key to understanding what’s inside the bottle and how to properly use it. This interactive guide can help you make sense of your supplement labels. click here Anatomy of the Back The back is a complex structure of bones, muscles, nerves and other tissues. Think of your back as a carefully balanced structure that gives you strength, support and flexibility. To take an interactive look at the back and the parts that make it work. click here How Alcohol Damages the Body Alcohol abuse can affect every tissue and organ in the body. Using alcohol can hurt your health in a variety of ways, both in the short-term and over a long period of time. Take an interactive look at the consequences of alcohol abuse on the human body. click here How Tobacco Damages the Body If you use any form of tobacco, you run the risk of damaging nearly every organ in your body. Tobacco comes in many different packages. But no matter how it’s wrapped, smoking or chewing tobacco is harmful to your health. To learn more about some of the consequences of tobacco use on the body, click here Instant Gratification: The Rewards of Quitting Smoking Start Right Away The benefits of going smoke-free begin minutes after you put out your last cigarette. They say good things come to those who wait. But good things happen right away when you quit smoking: Within minutes, your body starts to heal. To take an interactive look at some of the ways quitting will help your body, click here

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