If you're feeling a little under the weather and don't know where to turn, try York's wellness site http://www.yorku.ca/admin/wellness. The University's Wellness Centre for Research and Education maintains the web site in an effort to "educate and empower" people about their own health issues, says Joe Levy, Atkinson College professor of nursing and health administration.

    "We're on the web because we'd like as many people as possible at York and elsewhere to take charge of their own health," says Levy, who is also known as "Dr. Wellness."

    Levy says the site is like a book with four "chapters": active learning, community, education, and research. Yoga, tai ch'i and how to cook a vegetarian meal are under the active learning chapter. And if you click on the topic Walking, you arrive at what may well be the first on-line, interactive walking book complete with picture, sound, video clips, and text.

    The education chapter features articles explaining why various health practices and products may be good medicine, while the research chapter has material on topics like heart disease, cancer and stress management, along with more "alternative" health strategies such as acupuncture and herbal therapies.