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The American Heart Association, one of the world's premier health organizations, delivers advice and info at its online home, from diet tips to ideas for preventing heart disease. AHA focuses on cardiovascular disease, of course, but here you'll find lots of pointers for healthy living.

Harvard Medical School's respository of consumer health information will be found at this excellent site, along with many user-friendly articles on health, disease, drugs, and the human body.

The National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has created this clearinghouse of information on all matters related to your physical well-being. You'll find drug information (MEDLINEplus), disease & symptom documentation, health recommendations, summaries on every major system of the human body, and much more at this excellent site.

I've been hearing about The Obesity Myth for months and it completely lives up to expectations. It eloquently and coherently summarizes a lot of the evidence from other important references, but it goes far beyond that in offering new and valuable insights into the roots of our attitudes toward body size. It is a great book that every overweight person should read.