Get healthy in the new year with these 10 great Health & Food sites! These top 10 sites will show you how to get in shape, eat healthier and feel better about your new, improved 2015 self.
On 2015 I’m Starting to Lead a Healthy Lifestyle!
Gym memberships soar in January. They usually fizzle out soon thereafter. Getting in shape has always been one of the most common New Year’s resolutions, but also the most difficult to actually accomplish. If you don’t exercise regularly, it can be hard to get in a routine of working out, eating well, and treating your body right. Just because the calendar flips to a new year doesn’t make changing your habits any easier. But it’s a good excuse to at least give it a shot.
Have No Fear, The Internet is Here!
Luckily, there is a vast network of resources online that can help keep you on track in terms of your health and diet. 
There are also tons of people in the world struggling with the same things, as well as people that have overcome those obstacles and are willing to share their advice. There are also some great, innovative sites that simply offer great food, whether or not it’s the healthiest thing you could be eating. Or drinking. Nobody’s perfect.
These are the the top 10 sites the web has to offer in Health & Food. Even if you don’t want to make any New Year’s resolutions, the New Year offers a new opportunity to work on your health and diet. Hopefully these sites will help you achieve those goals.
Hacker Body 
Hacker Body offers daily workout instruction in the form of short videos. The workouts are designed to be completed in around 20 minutes, just a little exercise to get back into shape and focus on optimizing all aspects of your body. While that may sound like any generic workout website, Hacker Body has one awesome aspect that sets it apart: it’s 100% “Meat Head” free. That means it’s designed for beginners, as well as for programmers that spend most of their days sitting in front of a computer. It markets itself as “A Geek’s Guide To Fitness,” and it definitely is much more approachable than many of the exercise instruction videos available online. It’s the perfect place to get started on that New Year’s resolution you’ve probably abandoned already.
Blue Apron 
Blue Apron is a subscription box service that delivers fresh, healthy ingredients and accompanying recipes to your home each week. The service is designed not just to deliver you good food, but to teach you how to prepare it. It’s like a weekly cooking lesson, except you don’t have to waste any time looking up recipes online and then going to the grocery store to find the right ingredients. Everything you need comes int he Blue Apron box, including detailed instructions on how to make the meal. The ingredients are seasonal, ensuring that the delicious food you’re cooking is fresh and (for the most part) healthy. The cost is also relatively low at $9.99 a meal. It’s almost easier (but definitely better) than eating out.
Patients Like Me
Patients Like Me is an online support group for patients to share their experiences, discuss medication and recommend doctors and treatment options. It’s an active community of patient-to-patient communication, and the platform offers a directness that’s otherwise not acceptable. Patients with rare disorders, for instance, can find each other and compare notes about their treatment. This ultimately benefits medical research by allowing patients to explore how those around the world are being treated for a specific disease. It’s much better to learn from another’s firsthand experience than a site like WebMD, which could include misleading information. The free site is truly an important one, and it has the noble goal of improving health care for all by making treatment options more transparent and by connecting those that need support the most with each other.
KitchenSurfing 
KitchenSurfing was built for people that love food, and want to share high quality meals with friends or strangers. That food is prepared in your own kitchen by high-quality chefs from your local area. The price is predetermined, as is the meal that the chef prepares and the number of people that are served. It’s like transforming your home into a restaurant for one night, with a chef that’s there to answer your questions about the meal, or even offer cooking classes or advice. Several chefs have profiles on the site, and you can browse through each to determine which has the right menu and availability. KitchenSurfing just facilitates that communication between chef and event host. There’s no better time to host a dinner party than 2015, and no easier site than KitchenSurfing to make that a reality.
DietBet
DietBet encourages weight loss through the one thing that motivates us all: money. The site consists of a series of “games,” in which users put a certain amount of money into a pot and then compete to win or split the combined amount. The smallest game is called The Kickstarter, a somewhat misleading name considering it doesn’t involve you begging your Facebook friends for money to help you lose weight. What it does involve is 4 weeks of exercise with the goal of losing 4% of your starting weight. At the end of the four weeks, whoever has reached that goal splits the pot. It’s a risky bet, but it is a good way to get motivated if you’re desperate for some inspiration. It’s also a fun community of players, with DietBet Referees there to discourage cheating and a weigh-in results process that’ll appeal to fans of The Biggest Loser. If you’re looking to lose weight but lack the motivation, joining or creating a game could be worth a shot. The best case scenario is you’ll win money.
VinePair 
If getting healthy or losing weight isn’t your top priority for 2015, then you’ll probably be more interested in VinePair. It’s a site filled with wine-related content, intended for both beginners and advanced audiences. There’s a blog featuring regularly updated editorial content about wine, as well as a general section about wine drinking called “Wine 101” and another image-only section called “Wine Porn.” The site has a bunch of quirky quizzes and tools under its Apps & Quizes section (like “The Wine & Pizza Pairing App!”). The site is fun and easygoing, but still an essential visit for any serious wine drinker, as well as anyone that aspires to expand their wine palette.
EatWith 
EatWith, like KitchenSurfing, brings groups of people together to share a meal. It’s a similarly strong community of people that want to share their love of food and cooking. While KitchenSurfing brings a chef to your home, EatWith does the opposite. Each EatWith host is a professionally-trained chef that also undergoes an interview process with the company. They prepare a unique menu for each dinner party that they host, always using fresh ingredients. Anyone can sign up to attend an EatWith event (which can be either private or public), so it’s like attending a small restaurant where everyone shares a meal and the chef is always nearby.
JapanCrate 
This is the one site on this list that will definitely not achieve your New Year’s resolution of getting healthy. But it will help you achieve your goal of eating awesome, delicious candy from Japan. Everyone on earth should have that goal. JapanCrate offers a service similar to that of Blue Apron, except it delivers a crate of hand-selected “crazy Japanese candy” to your door each month. It costs $12.99/month, but it includes bags of random and unique candies that are otherwise difficult to find in the U.S. It’s a fun way to connect candy-lovers of the world with the bright, strange Japanese candy culture that they’ve been missing out on. It might not make you healthier for 2015, but it will most likely make you happier.
Spoonacular 
Spoonacular is a recipe site that’s driven by its strong search function and the ability to filter every result by three categories: The Best, The Healthiest, and The Cheapest. Depending on how you want your 2015 to turn out, any of those three options could be ideal. You can also place additional filters on every search, sorting results by cuisine, diet, intolerances, type, occasion, price and time. Aside from the specificity of its search results, Spoonacular is a great site simply for the massive amount of recipes it hosts and the way they’re displayed. Every recipe has accompanying graphical information that can be shared as widgets across the web. The recipes are also broken down into individual ingredients, helping users understand the health benefits of each dish. It’s the best site to find exactly what you’re looking for, and the easiest site to understand how to actually make it.
Grokker
Grokker’s tagline understands the urgency of changing your life for the better in the new year. “It’s Time To Do Something Good For Yourself,” the site declares in huge font upon a visit to its homepage. The way Grokker helps you accomplish something good for yourself is by signing up for on-demand, full-length yoga, fitness and cooking classes. There are thousands of instructional videos hosted on Grokker, taught by meditation experts, yoga instructors, chefs, and everyone in between. There are specific topics for each major category, like “Sauces & Condiments” under cooking videos or “Guided Breathwork” under Yoga. There’s tons of content to explore (some of which can be done for free), and all of it has the end goal of making a better you.
