Move over Susan Powter-Jack La Lanne is still alive, kicking, and burning fat! In business since 1936, Jack is known as the "Godfather of Physical Fitness." At this site, he and his wife Elaine are your hosts for a presentation of fitness tips, nutritional recipes, and VivoActive Video clips from Jack's old TV show. Of course, plan on stopping at the online storefront for Jack and Elaine's company Befit Enterprises, where you can pick up a T-shirt, book, or Elaine's Moisture Tone and Jack's Face-A-Tonic. As Jack always says, "You're great ... take care of you!!" - David Pescovitz
This site is the home page and a purchase point for the Home Access HIV-1 Test. Here you'll find product pushes supported by facts (example: "Including blood donations, only 18 percent of U.S. adults have been tested for HIV infection."), information on Home Access' telephone counseling lines, and details on the home test itself. If it convinces people to get tested for HIV, I'm all for it. The site doesn't feature any in-depth HIV/AIDS education, but it does offer a good list of links to other sites that do. - David Pescovitz
Dr. Paula Eibert is a New York-based pediatrician and the author of House Calls to Newborns. Her Web site hosts three forums of questions and answers divided by age range-kids, teens, and adult parents. You post your query, and the good doctor answers. Other useful resources for parents include her list of recalled-product alerts from the Consumer Product Safety Commission and an annotated list of what should be in every parent's medicine cabinet. Dr. Paula's network of pediatricians around the world could potentially prove useful to traveling parents, but the site isn't clear on the screening process for these pediatricians once they ask to be included in the network. - David Pescovitz
Obsessed with the Internet as he is, Al Gore pretty much forced this site into existence by incessantly yammering on about a "gateway to health information." Basically an uppity government search engine and links, Healthfinder hunts down U.S.-sponsored health information on depression, heart disease, diabetes, chemical spills, abstinence-pretty much anything that falls under the jurisdiction of one official agency or another. A grand tool for researching, Healthfinder has but one problem-as of this writing the main engine either takes forever or crashes the computer completely. If the folks behind Healthfinder can fix it, you'll be able to feast on government jargon for days. - Robert Capps
The Tobacco BBS (Bulletin Board System) ain't going to take any more tar-festered, disease-ridden crap. This organization battles the mighty cigarette with an approach as subtle as a sledgehammer. Each day, the site re-floods with newspaper stories about tobacco and politics, tobacco and the law, tobacco and the media-tobacco being, of course, evil. The page slams tobacco supporters and praises its opponents. It also links to tons of government and industry documents proving that cigarette companies are the depraved, money-gabbing, pond-sucking varmints we all know they are. It's enough to drive you to drink. - Robert Capps
Norfolk, Va.-based Operation Smile is a non-profit organization that trains doctors for third-world medical relief missions geared primarily toward helping children and young adults with deformities. Over 16,000 physicians and 28,000 volunteers have participated since its 1982 founding. Operation Smile's Web site contains all the information you'll need if you're interested in lending a helping hand. The site's well-designed gallery documents recent missions to countries such as the Philippines, Columbia, and Honduras. You'll find loads of statistics about the health problems facing each country, as well as pictures of the volunteers at work. - Todd Jatras
Fans of renowned psychologist Laura Sclessinger will find themselves more than satisfied with the Dr. Laura Web site. If her syndicated radio show doesn't quench your thirst for "women's intimate discourse," log on here for a complete archive of commentaries and columns. A lively fan-feedback forum lets visitors weigh in with their own opinions on various subjects. The site includes a convenient list of all 400 radio affiliates, with show times for each market. Dr. Laura scores big points for site design, and animated GIFS give this experiment in cyberpsycho-babble a bright and airy feel. - Todd Jatras
Concerned with information-deprived, life-threatened prostate cancer sufferers, San Diego Urologist Dr. Israel Barken took his job online. Barken addresses tough choices faced by the newly diagnosed, offers the latest findings and research on prostate cancer, and hosts a forum for patients and doctors to discuss various aspects of the disease. Some of information reads like it was taken from a professional medical journal, and often Barken's advice seems condescending, but features such as chats and Q&As ensure a setting reminiscent of a support group. The site's bugs haven't been worked out yet (it invites many crashes and uses jumbled Frames), but Prostate Cancer Dot Com offers lots of encouragement. - Robert Capps