Credentials

Best of Health Online, a corporate intranet/internet service that you may access in a matter of seconds, anytime, and from anywhere in the world, has been developed by Mr. Kailash Narayan, MS, President of LIFELINE International. Best of Health Online has evolved from an award-winning, decade-long corporate wellness project that Mr. Narayan implemented at ARCO for over 12,000 employees and 28,000 retirees. It includes some of the most successful elements of the ARCO project. Mr. Narayan has received many awards including Health Net's Worksite Wellness Excellence Award, and the C. Everett Koop National Health Award Honorable Mention.

Best of Health Online brings high quality medical information, world renowned professionals, interactive questionnaires, and online results, directly to your desktop:

Medical Data Source Inc. gives you immediate access to current information on 200 medical conditions and prescription drugs derived from an overview of over 12,000 reliable print and electronic sources.

Sheila Flynn-Esquivel, president of Nutrition Savvy, a registered dietitian and author of our 200 page "Healthy Eating" cookbook encourages you to eat healthy. Sheila invites you to take Nutrition Scientific's Quick Check for Diet Progress, an interactive food intake questionnaire with immediate online results. The Quick Check was developed almost 10 years ago by the late Dr. David Blankenhorn, a world-renowned cardiologist, and is still being used by Dr. Howard Hodis at the University of Southern California in all of its cardiovascular research.

Devin Ashley, MS, our fitness expert, guides the viewer through the 3-minute Step Fit Test developed by Dr. James Rippee at the Exercise & Nutrition Laboratory at University of Massachusetts. Devin invites you to select from the 68 fitness activities and criteria recommended by the President's Council for Physical Fitness & Sports.

Salvatore Maddi, Ph.D., a world renowned psychologist, professor at University of California at Irvine, and the developer of The Hardiness Model for Personal Power, invites you to take Essi Systems' StressMap, an award-winning interactive test that shows how we can put more productive balance into our daily lives. The StressMap is being used worldwide by more than 2000 corporations.

Dr. Tom Ferguson, author of "No-Nag, No-Guilt, Do-It-Your-Own-Way Guide to Quitting Smoking" asks you to take his Smoker Survey to analyze your smoking habit and your readiness to quit. Dr. Ferguson excels in medical self care and blends it with resources on the Internet in his latest book "Health Online."

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