online magazine aims for better health for area readers

SPARTA-Sparta Health Online is a local online health and news magazine serving residents living in and around Sparta, Branchville, Lafayette, Hamburg, and Augusta. As a free community service, Sparta Health Online delivers health information and late-breaking news, twice monthly.Its goal is to improve area residents' quality of life and to provide health information to assist with important every day healthcare decisions. Focused on mainstream and alternative healthcare, information provided is current, and local healthcare specialists can submit articles and are encouraged to serve as healthcare advisors. Under the headings of more than 30 healt care specialties, more than 1,500 articles are catalogued ranging from family medicine to dermatology to chiropractic, pediatrics to women's health to sports medicine, personal growth to exercise and fitness to massage therapy, pharmacology to dentistry to personal development, and acupuncture to herbal medicine to naturopathy. Additional features include a local community calendar and health-related questions-of-the-month. Late-breaking health news can be accessed with the click of a mouse. Go to spartahealth.org to subscribe free. For more information, e-mail mail@spartahealth.org or call 973-383-5052.