Deakin University's Health and Wellbeing Website was launched a year ago through the school of health sciences as an advice site for university staff, campus nurse Anne Clancy says. Originally it was an interactive site for staff to go into to get a basic assessment and create an exercise program that could be monitored. Now anybody can get in. It has tips, links and practical advice to address your health and wellbeing through physical activity. Different approaches work for different people.
Young people prefer to find things out through a computer rather than a book.
However, website fitness or diet advice should be acted upon with caution, says Epworth HealthCheck director Dr Richard Shields. Exercises don't translate accurately from a two-dimensional computer image for someone who may not have been shown how to carry them out properly, Shields says. Meanwhile, many ill-informed sites have ideas about diet which should not be seriously considered. We are designed to be eating a range of different foods and not to cut down on any one of them. This site supplies nutrition reports, healthy eating brochures, online body and weight assessment as well as food composition tables.