Cool Tools
Visit the Cool Tools below to receive informative, personalized, and motivating feedback.
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Cool Tools:
Exercise
Target Heart Rate
Calculate THR to tell how fast your heart should beat during exercise in order to get the maximum benefit.
Pace
Find out how long it will take to finish a mile if you run…walk…or crawl.
Heart Rate and Blood Pressure
Make sure your ticker’s in good shape by monitoring your blood pressure. High blood pressure can cause stroke, heart disease, kidney failure and more, and can occur in people of any age, race or gender. Check yours today!
Calorie Expenditure
Learn how many calories you burn doing activities like running, cycling or housework.
Activity Calculator
This application gives you a list of over 220 activities and the calories you burn doing each for a specific amount of time. Simply plug in your weight and the time you want to spend exercising to get the results.
Calories Per Hour
Whether you want to lose, gain or stay the same, this calculator tells you how many calories you need to eat per day to reach your goal.
Exercise Risk Calculator
New to exercise? Take this short quiz to help figure out if you should see a doctor before you start working out.
Financial
Commute Cost Calculator
Add up how much your commute is costing you monthly and yearly; then, compare those figures to the cost of carpooling.
General Health
Health Age Questionnaire
The questionnaire estimates the age of your body based on a number of factors, e.g., smoking, activity level, etc. It also predicts your life expectancy.
Check Up On Your Bones
An interactive bone health check-up. Discover what things put your bones at risk and develop a plan to make your bones stronger.
Heart Attack Risk Calculator
This tool predicts your chances of having a heart attack in the next 10 years.
Diabetes Risk Calculator
Out of the 23.6 million people who have diabetes, an estimated 5.7 million don’t know they have it. Take the test to determine if you’re at risk.
High Blood Presure Calculator
Put in your current blood pressure numbers to determine if it’s too high. The site provides ways to decrease your blood pressure and your health risk.
How much do you know about Blood Pressure. Find out.
Rate Your Energy
Most adults feel tired some of the time. But often we do the wrong things in our efforts to regain energy. Find out ways to regain your energy!
6 easy steps to take to exam your breasts and detect early signs of breast cancer.
Mental Health
Stress Assessment
Complete the assessment and use the information to help guide you to reduce the stress in your life.
Assess your risk with this short quiz
Are you ready to be a caregiver?
Nutrition
Food Portion Quiz
No wonder America’s getting fatter. This quiz shows how many calories are in today’s supersized portions compared with the portions served 20 years ago. Plus it provides the amount of exercise you have to do to burn the extra calories.
Nutrition Quiz
Just because it looks healthy doesn’t mean it is. Test your food knowledge to make sure you’re making the right choices.
Fruit and Vegetable Calculator
If pizza sauce counts as your vegetable of the day, you’re not alone. Most people don’t eat enough fruits and veggies. Let this site help add more produce to your diet.
Calorie King
The site offers a weight-loss program with tools and resources to shed pounds easily. There’s also a food database that provides nutritional information for a large variety of foods and restaurants.
Recipe Re-mix
Get tips on how to make your favorite meals healthier.
Halloween Treats Calorie Calculator
How far do you have walk to burn of those treats?
New Year's Party Calculator
Figure out how long it will take you to walk off all those New Year’s drinks and snacks.
Holiday Calorie Counter
Holiday parties usually mean loads of fun and food. Calculate the calories you eat during a typical party and how far you have to walk to burn it off.
Serving Conversion Calculator
Use this tool whenever you need to change measuring units, e.g., the recipe calls for cups but the can says fluid ounces.
Calorie Lab
A database containing nutritional information for over 70,000 foods and 500 restaurants.
Menu Planning
An interactive menu planner that guides your food choices based on how many calories you need daily. Use it to plan a meal or add up total calories at the end of the day.
Sample Reduced Calorie Menus
Menus provide examples of what to eat when you’re on a diet of 1200 or 1600 calories. There are a variety of reduced calorie menu options available.
Fast Food Counter
The Fast Food Nutrition Explorer helps you make healthier fast food choices quickly. You can 'power search', compare restaurants, and even check out combo meals.
Vending Machine tour
Hit up the virtual vending machine to compare snacks and decide which one you should buy.
The dessert wizard calculates how much activity you need to do to burn off that indulgence!
Breakfast Calculator
Get the nutrition you need and still get out the door on time with breakfast choices that fill you up — without filling you out.
Fast Food Choices
Find out what to avoid and what to consider at five popular fast food restaurants.
Table of Condiments
Take a tour of the refrigerator to find out just how long your mustard and mayo and other condiments can stay on the shelf.
Take this quick quiz to see how much know about eating healthfully.
Portion control is a critical part of successful weight loss and weight management. The WebMD Portion Size Plate gives you easy-to-understand guidelines to help you avoid some common portion-size pitfalls.
Pregnancy
Use this tool to find out when your baby should arrive
From Embryo to Baby in 9 Months
Discover the amazing changes that happen during pregnancy
Find out when you are most likely to get pregnant
Sleep
Sleep Quiz
A quiz full of weird facts to help you sleep better.
Smoking
This interactive tool measures your readiness to quit smoking
How Much is Smoking Costing You?
This interactive tool calculates how much money you have spent on cigarettes in the past or how much you will spend on them in the future.
Weight
Body Mass Index (BMI)
Your BMI indicates whether or not you’re in a healthy weight range for your sex and height.
Basal Energy Expenditure
By adding up your B.E.E., you know how many calories your body needs to function, e.g., breathing, staying at 98.6 degrees, etc.
Resting Metabolic Rate
Your RMR is the rate at which your body burns calories when you are comfortably at rest (e.g., as if you stayed in bed all day long). Knowing your RMR is helpful for calculating how many calories you need in a day to sustain your energy level.
Daily Caloric Needs
Determine how many calories you need to maintain or lose weight. The nutritional needs calculator can then help break down those calories into carbs, proteins and fat so you’re eating a balanced diet.
Waist to Hip Ratio
Belly fat puts you at greater risk for a heart attack. Put in your waist and hip measurements to see if your ratio is in the healthy range.
Estimated Caloric Requirements
Calculate your caloric needs based on age, sex, height, weight, and activity level.
Exercise Estimator
Estimate your workout goals based on your daily calorie intake or the occasional splurge.