As you navigate through our Internet health network, you will meet many of the leaders in natural health, wellness, self-care and alternative medicine. These experts have dedicated their lives to educating consumers and professionals in the health care of the future--Integrative Medicine--blending the best of conventional and alternative/complementary medicine.

Our philosophy of Self-Managed Care™ encourages you, the individual, to become the central player in mangaging your own health and to work in partnership with your chosen health professional to achieve a higher level of health and vitality--your birthright.

To a healthier world!
The HealthWorld Online Team

Take our Tour to familiarize yourself with the resources in HealthWorld Online.

Why People Visit HealthWorld Online

Wanting to Live a Healthier Life.....
If you are looking for guidance in helping you to live a healthier life, you have come to the right place. HealthWorld Online offers vast expert resources in nutrition, fitness, self-care and mind/body approaches to maintaining high-level health and wellbeing. Visit our Nutrition Center, Fitness Center, Wellness Center, and Marketplace in our Health Village on our home page. You may want to check out "Healthy News," our daily health news feed to keep you up to date on the latest in health.

To make the most of the resources in HealthWorld, we recommend that you subscribe to the Wellness Inventory, our pioneering "whole person" assessment and personal change program designed to help you gain insight into your state of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. The program offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into lasting changes in your life, and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing. The Wellness Inventory can serve as the centerpiece of your experience of HealthWorld and acts as a gateway for the most focused and efficient utilization of our resources to help you bring more balance into your life.

Experiencing a Health Problem.....
If you have an existing health problem and are looking for information and resources to help you better manage your condition, your first destination in our Health Village should be our Health Conditions Center, where you will find articles from leading experts on alternative/complementary and integrative approaches to hundreds of health conditions. Visit our unparalled Alternative Medicine Center for more in-depth research on a specific alternative therapy, as well as our Healthy Woman, Healthy Man, and Healthy Child Centers will help make your visit to HealthWorld truly a family affair. To discover how to best research a health condition in HealthWorld visit Tips for Researching a Health Condition. When you are ready to seek a health professional, the Find a Practitioner Center will give you access to 20,000 leading practitioners of integrative health care.
Finally, to help develop a healthy lifestyle and to bring more balance into your life in body, mind and spirit to support your healing process, we suggest you utilize our Wellness Inventory program.

Health Professional.....
As a health professional you will enjoy the Professional Center HealthWorld Online. Familiarize yourself with the many professional-level reference resources, products and services offered in our Internet Health Network. In addition to being the first site on the Internet to offer free Medline worldwide, HealthWorld Online offers an extensive database of articles on alterantive/complementary medicine from recognized leaders in the field.

Journalist.....
HealthWorld Online offers a compelling resource for consumer health journalists as well as medical journalists. HealthWorld covers the fields of healthy living, self-care, bodymindspirit health, alternative therapies and the emerging field of Integrative Medicine. Our Self-Managed Care approach to health parallels the rise of the empowered health consumer and the health information revolution. For a guide to resources for journalists in HealthWorld Online, visit our Media Resource Center.

Researcher.....
HealthWorld Online is a vast resource for health and medical researchers. Our Natural Health Library hosts our daily Healthy News feed, Columns from the Experts, Interviews on the Leading Edge, Natural Medicine Audio Library, Free Medline search, Medical Cybrarian Service, nutritional research texts, and alternative medicine journals. Our Alternative Medicine Center and Health Conditions Center are also two excellent research resources. For a guide to resources for Researchers in HealthWorld Online, visit our Research Center.

Searching HealthWorld Online
Our search engine performs a Site Search of the over 30,000 pages of HealthWorld Online. We offer free Medline search for more in-depth medical research.

Free Content & Services
HealthWorld Online currently offers a vast library of free information to consumers and professionals worldwide. Recognized experts in the fields of nutrition, fitness, medical self-care, wellness, natural health and alternative and complementary medicine provide our information. Our free services include Healthy News, global health calendar, professional referral network, discussion forums, free Medline, speaker's network, and our Healthy Update electronic newsletter.

Where is HealthWorld Online?
In the virtual world we are located at www.healthy.net. In the physical world, we are located near the beach in West Los Angeles. Our mailing address is:

HealthWorld Online, Inc.
4049 Lyceum Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90066
Email: info@healthy.net

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