At MSN Health & Fitness, we have two primary objectives -- to provide you with reliable, credible and detailed information to answer your health and fitness questions both big and small, and to make this information easy to find and use. Our Medical Advisory Board provides expert professional perspectives on emerging trends in disease treatment and condition management, as well as guidance for preventative health care options. Through partnerships with award-winning content providers and exclusive medically reviewed health content, MSN Health & Fitness seeks to provide you with engaging and high-quality content and tools.

MSN Health & Fitness brings you more than 32,000 pages of trustworthy and informative content:

* Disease & Condition Centers that organize an extensive collection of information about asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and other health conditions.

* A Health Topics Library that offers descriptions, overviews and practical information for an extensive array of health topics to help you make informed decisions about your health.

* My Wellness Center where you can customize a diet and exercise plan to help you achieve your fitness and weight loss goals.

* Interactive Tools that allow you to gain more insight into health topics by using videos, quizzes, slideshows, self-assessment tools, calculators and more.

* Route Tracker allows you to find great walking routes in cities around the U.S. or plot a customized route to log your miles and track your fitness progress.

* The Fit Zone that provides customized fitness workouts targeted toward specific areas of the body.

* A Healthier Living center where articles, videos, and recipes are provided to guide you to practical alternatives for healthy eating, fitness, and well being.

* Health Experts who respond to reader questions on a variety of topics including weight loss, fitness, and health conditions.

* Special Reports focused on timely topics such as anti-aging issues, cold and flu season and smoking cessation.

* Message Boards where you can read and share information with fellow readers on 19 health and fitness topics.

* Weekly Polls where you can cast your vote on a variety of health and fitness related issues.

Editorial Policy

Our mission at MSN Health & Fitness is to provide trustworthy, easy-to-use content and tools that help you manage your health. To that end, we aggregate content from several trusted sources like the Mayo Clinic, Harvard, Rodale and HealthDay, as well as accredited experts on various health and fitness topics. Members of our Medical Advisory Board provide their insights and expertise on emerging healthcare trends, disease treatment options, and preventative care methods. This guidance enables us to create, gather, and deliver high-quality, timely, and credible information to you.

Our user-generated stories and message board posting provide ways for you to share and connect with others on a variety of health care issues and concerns. This content is also editorially monitored to ensure our online communities receive relevant, engaging, and informative content.

Content on MSN Health & Fitness does not replace the advice of a doctor or health professional. Every content page on MSN Health & Fitness carries a link to our disclaimer, which outlines this policy in detail.

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Our Partners

BabyCenter.com

BabyCenter.com

BabyCenter.com is the leading destination on the Internet for new and expectant parents. The site is dedicated to helping users find the information and support needed during pregnancy and in caring for a baby, toddler, or child. BabyCenter® reaches 78 percent of all new and expecting moms online in a year and averages 4 million unique site visitors per month.

Caring.com

Caring.com

Caring.com was created to help you care for your aging parents and other loved ones. As the leading destination for eldercare resources on the Internet, our mission is to give you the information and services you need to make better decisions, save time, and feel more supported. There are more than 34 million of you today caring for parents, grandparents, and other aging relatives. Most of you also work in demanding jobs. Many of you are sandwiched between generations, caring for both your parents and your own children. You have to make complex decisions daily, and you frequently find yourself alone in your role as caregiver. It can be a difficult and overwhelming experience. Caring.com provides the practical information, easy-to-use tools, and personal support you need during this challenging time.

DestinationRx

DestinationRx

DestinationRx lets consumers, for the first time, get the information they need to find direct comparisons on price, safety and therapeutic efficacy of drugs as well as drug and health plans. Since 1999, the company provides the healthcare industry with the educational, strategic, and transaction-support tools necessary for their customers and patients to navigate today’s complex healthcare marketplace and make better health care decisions and purchases. DestinationRx technology helps nearly three out of four Medicare beneficiaries annually compare and enroll in a Medicare Part D plan that best meets their needs.

EatingWell.com

EatingWell.com

EatingWell’s mission is to provide inspiration and information to make healthy eating a way of life. EatingWell takes a scientific and sensible approach to food and health journalism and recipe development. “Where Good Taste Meets Good Health,” is a commitment that there’s no need to sacrifice great flavor when preparing everyday healthy meals.

ExerciseTV

ExerciseTV

ExerciseTV is a free, video-on-demand network dedicated to making home exercise fun and challenging. The videos feature fitness trends, sports training tips and over 200 workouts that focus on cardio, abs, yoga, dance and more. ExerciseTV is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on demand with digital cable and online at www.exercisetv.tv.

Forbes.com

Forbes.com

Forbes.com, home page for the world’s business leaders and the No. 1 business news source in the world, is among the most trusted resources for senior business executives, providing them the real-time reporting, uncompromising commentary, concise analysis, relevant tools and community they need to succeed at work, profit from investing and have fun with the rewards of winning. Throughout the business day Forbes.com publishes more than 4,000 articles, delivering the best of Forbes journalism and that of its selected partners with all the immediacy, depth and interactivity that the Web allows. Forbes.com is part of Forbes Digital, a division of Forbes Media LLC.

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Health Publications is a division of the Harvard Medical School that works to bring the public the most current practical, authoritative health information, drawing on the expertise of the 8,000 faculty physicians at the Harvard Medical School and its world-famous affiliated hospitals.

Health.com

Health.com

Time Inc.'s new health and wellness destination, Health.com, balances the human and clinical aspects of health, combining a trusted, empathetic voice and clear, intuitive navigation. The Web site offers a mix of original reporting, first-person stories, video, accredited medical content and community. Health.com helps users take better control over their own health experience. The centerpiece of the site's approach are its Health "journeys," rich content on the most commonly-searched health conditions. Health.com and Health magazine, which currently engages over eight million readers, share the same voice, one that is authoritative, real and reassuring, and eminently practical. Health magazine is published by Southern Progress Corporation, a subsidiary of Time Inc.

HealthDay

HealthDay

HealthDay is a division of ScoutNews, LLC, a news and information company. HealthDay's primary product is an award-winning daily news feed of consumer health news stories. HealthDay content is fair and accurate, reflecting the highest standards in American journalism.

HealthVault

HealthVault

HealthVault lets you store health information from many sources in one location, so that it’s always organized and available to you online. To make it easy for you to add information electronically to your HealthVault record, we’re collaborating with doctors, hospitals, employers, pharmacies, insurance providers and manufacturers of health devices—such as blood-pressure and heart-rate monitors and more. With a more complete picture of your family’s health, you can work with your health-care professionals, and with all the Web sites that connect with HealthVault, to make more informed decisions.

HealthWise

HealthWise

Healthwise, a non-profit founded in 1975, is focused on one thing—developing consumer health content to help people make health decisions that are right for them. HealthWise writers, editors, and reviewers know that if consumer health content doesn't help a person make a better decision, it doesn't really help.

Healthy Monday

Healthy Monday

Healthy Monday introduces the idea of Monday as a weekly reminder to take action for your health. It's a simple but powerful concept being applied to a wide variety of public health concerns by a diverse network of business and consumer groups, health advocacy organizations, and academic institutions—all dedicated to improving the health of Americans. Healthy Monday's goal is to provide a framework for the delivery of innovative, evidence-based health campaigns aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality associated with the four leading causes of preventable disease in the U.S.: poor diet, inactivity, smoking, and alcohol misuse. Healthy Monday is a project of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

KidsHealth

KidsHealth

KidsHealth creates engaging, family-friendly online, video and print media for parents, kids and teens. Our physician-led editorial staff is expert in communicating complex medical information in a language readers can understand. KidsHealth is created by the Nemours Center for Children's Health Media, part of the nonprofit Nemours Foundation.

March of Dimes

March of Dimes

The mission of the March of Dimes is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. The March of Dimes carries out this mission through research, community services, education and advocacy.

mayo clinic

MayoClinic.com

MayoClinic.com empowers people to manage their health by providing useful and up-to-date information and tools that reflect the expertise and standard of excellence of Mayo Clinic. A team of Web-publishing professionals and medical experts work side by side to produce this award-winning content.

MSNBC

MSNBC

One of the most honored news organizations online, MSNBC.com is a leader in breaking news and original journalism. MSNBC.com reaches more people than any of the national daily newspapers.

PARADE

PARADE

PARADE, the largest circulation magazine in the U.S., is distributed in more than 400 of the nation¹s top newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Post and The Washington Post. The magazine, which launched in 1941, now has a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 71 million. Each Sunday in PARADE and each day at Parade.com, our mission is to connect emotionally with Americans about the issues they care most about and move them to action.

Psychology Today

Psychology Today

Psychology Today helps readers make healthy lifestyle decisions by embracing positive behavioral change. A multiple award-winning national magazine with more than 3 million readers per month, Psychology Today offers sound mental-health content that is also featured through the Web site along with its popular Therapist Directory.

Rodale

Rodale

Rodale Inc., which was recognized by the trade publication Advertising Age as Publishing Company of the Year for 2006, is the authoritative source for trusted content in health, fitness and wellness around the world, reaching more than 70 million people globally. The company publishes some of the best-known health and wellness lifestyle magazines and is also the largest independent book publisher in America, with a collection of international titles. Rodale's broad range of media platforms includes magazines, books, video and an extensive Web presence.

Visible Productions

Visible Productions

Visible Productions, Inc. is a multimedia medical communications company that specializes in creating programs using 3D animation, video, and motion graphics. Our target audiences are patients, sales reps, and healthcare providers. Visible Productions programs effectively convey complex medical information that can be difficult to communicate through oral or written means alone.

Zogby International

Zogby International

Zogby International Inc. is a public opinion research company that has earned a worldwide reputation for accuracy, speed, and reliability producing quality research for corporate, non-profit, governmental, and political clients. Zogby International, widely considered the pre-eminent political pollster in America today, conducts polling, focus groups, dial testing, data analysis and strategic planning solutions for clients in 65 countries worldwide. The firm, with its corporate offices and state-of-the-art call center in Utica, N.Y., also has offices in Washington D.C. and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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We strive for a high level of editorial integrity and objectivity in our content on MSN Health & Fitness. In addition to sourcing all content, we provide a clear distinction between editorial and advertising messaging by labeling advertising products. Though we have a relationship with advertisers on the site, we never change the contents of an article at the request of an advertiser.

Corrections Policy

As part of our mission to present trustworthy content, MSN Health & Fitness strives to make all content error-free and to be open and transparent about corrections. To that end we publish a Corrections page which details changes made in articles that were published with factual errors. (We fix typos and grammatical errors but do not issue formal corrections for them unless they alter the meaning of the text in such a way that it could be misconstrued.) We invite readers to alert us to any items they feel are in error via our Feedback link at the bottom of all of our site pages.

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