- Nutrition: Arbor Nutrition Guide
 - The world's
largest catalogue of nutrition resources on the Internet-food science, clinical nutrition,
ancient diets, functional foods and much more - an absolutely outstanding links page.
- 2 Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health 4 U
- A-to-Z family health, including alternative and preventive medicine, holistic healing,
parenting, and Baby Boomer and Senior Citizen health support for longevity.
- Ask the Dietitian - Information about many
health and nutrition questions. Healthy weight and calories calculator online.
- ASNS Publications - The
American Society for Nutritional Science has a nice page on all the major vitamins and
minerals, their daily requirements, sources, and toxic doseages.
- Aspartame: No Danger - Debunks the
"inappropriate and unsubstantiated alarm over aspartame." From the Multiple
Sclerosis Foundation, a nonprofit for those affected by Multiple Sclerosis.
- Calcium
Supplementation and Osteoporosis Prevention - Calcium Supplementation and Osteoporosis
Prevention - free report.
- California Avocado Commission - Official site of
the California Avocado Commission. The case is made for the special nutritional value of
the avocado in the human diet.
- California Strawberry Commission - California
Strawberry Commission is the official home of the California strawberry providing
invaluable resources including recipes, desserts, nutritional information, consumer news,
grower news, celebrity chef interviews, farm tours, contests, prizes, and trade
information.
- The Center for Nutritional Research - Colostrum
Information - Our Mission is to insure information and research about the whole food
Colostrum is made available to the public.
- Cforyourself: Vitamin C for Optimum Health -
dedicated to "optimum nutrition and disease prevention and treatment by the
supplementation of Vitamin C". The vitamin C site.
- The Council for Responsible Nutrition - The
Nutritional Supplement Industry makes it's case for vitamin and mineral supplementation.
Includes consumer FAQ's, news releases, and good science based information on the
importance of various minerals and vitamins in a degraded urban diet.
- Diet & Nutrition
Resource Center - Mayo Clinic Diet and Nutrition Center: Mayo Clinic Nutrition Experts
offer Practical Advice, Creative Encouragement and Healthy Recipes to cut Fat,
Cholesterol, Sodium and Calories and Improve your Diet. Includes Q&A section with Mayo
dietitians. (Editor comment: enjoyable site; I found the quiz fun and informative)
- eDiets: Custom Weight Loss Management and Dieting
Programs - eDiets.com: Providing custom weight loss management programs, guidelines
for healthy eating, recipes, and dieting information.
- Extreme Sports Nutrition
- Food and
medication interactions - Food and medication interactions information from a
registered dietitian.
- Food and Nutrition - A fairly simple
overview and definition of diet, nutrients, food pyramid, calories. A useful quick
starting point on the subject.
- Food, nutrition, exercise fact index
- 450 articles, 63 medical abstracts-and growing! Very good information on 'diets' and
their health effects, lots of good stuff about fats in the diet. A lot is vitamin and
mineral supplement related, but the good bits are succulent.
- Food Pyramid - Welcome to the
Food Pyramid Guide
- The Food Pyramid - The Food
Pyramid
- Foods and Nutrition
Solutions - Information from the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service.
Useful noncommercial information on food buying, food preparation, food preservation, food
safety, food storage, glossary, nutritive analysis, and substitutions.
- For The Love of Healthy Eating - A site
organised by topic on healthy eating and linked through to other information providers on
nutritional guidelines, vegetarianism, etc.
- Fox-BGH cover-up lawsuit - In a lawsuit,
journalists say they were ultimately fired at FOX-owned WTVT Channel 13 in Tampa for
refusing orders to broadcast false and slanted stories about BGH (or rBST). The dairy
hormone is banned in all of Europe and other countries because of human health concerns.
- Healthy Kidz Co. - A commercial site selling a
childrens food pyrimad guide, but with a page of useful tips on helping kids select and
enjoy healthy food.
- International Food Information Council Foundation
(IFIC) - The International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation site is an
industry sponsored foundation that steers a middle road in the debates about nutrition. A
useful and cautious perspective, and includes some very good information on diet.
- iVillage.com's Better Health's Diet &
Nutrition Center - Get the latest dieting news & research, expert advice,
interactive health assessment tools, scheduled chats, message boards and more.
- Kick! Kitchen - Sports
nutrition advice for runners.
- Medicinal Food News - A quarterly
web magazine about food which promotes and improves health. Well written popular articles
based on recent research discoveries about the nutritional benefits of foods or ways of
eating.
- MEDLINE - Direct, public
access to the NLM's MEDLINE Biomedical Literature Search Engine through the NCBI.
- Natural Hygiene UK - It
explains the principles of Natural Hygiene for beginners and is meant to be a springboard
for Hygienists in the UK although everybody is welcome!
- New Century Nutrition - A site with a
newsletter on recent research findings on diet and (mainly) cancer, archived newsletters,
and details of research into the Chinese diet; leans towards vegetarian dietary choice.
- New England Journal of Medicine Online
- Nutrient Data Laboratory Food
Composition Data - Data sets prepared by USDA-ARS's Nutrient Data Laboratory (eg
Nutritive Value of Foods, Sugar Content of Foods, Nutrient Retention Factors, etc). These
data sets can be downloaded to your computer and used in your programs.
- Nutrion
Overview - Lecithin - One of the many healthful components of soybeans, lecithin and
its primary component, choline, are believed to play essential roles in cardiovascular
health,liver and cell function,fat transport, reproduction and child development, physical
performance during endurance activities, cell-to-cell communications, possibly in memory.
- Nutrition (About.com) - Starting place for
nutrition guidance. Includes a library, on-line bookstore, weekly updates, newsletter,
chat room, bulletin board and a personal guide.
- Nutrition and alternative medicine - medical
and health news.
- Nutrition
and evolution - The concept of nutrition examined in an evolutionary context , and
contrasted with the nutritional content of our industrial diet.
- Nutrition for a Living Planet -
Virtually an on-line book on digestion, diet, nutrition and good health, fads and facts. A
good overview, content dense.
- Nutrition from an evolutionary
perspective - Comparison of the hunter gatherer diet with the standard western diet;
comparison of the paleolithic diet with the standard western diet; implications and
discussion. A very good overview.
- Nutrition, Health 7 Heart Disease; Cause &
Prevention - Non-profit site about the role of foods and supplements in the cause and
prevention of heart disease and general health.
- Nutrition Journals on the WWW
- science.komm's directory of links to nutrition and food science journals
- Nutrition Links - Links to over two hundred
nutrition and medical web sites, organised by 13 categories, from the West Virginia
Dietetic Association (of USA).
- Nutrition: Medicine of the Future -
The medicine of the future will no longer be remedial, it will be preventive; not based on
drugs but on the best diet for health. This site explores the issue: What is Optimum
Nutrition?
- Nutrition remedies for allergies -
Allergies! Your food choices and certain nutrients can help alleviate allergies. What is
an allergy? Foods commonly associated with specific allergies. Nutritional help for
allergies.
- Nutrition Soundbites - A newsletter on
diet and nutrition, with links to some major nutrition related sites, such as the American
Heart Association recipe site. Not audio, 'soundbites' refers to 'sound eating'.
- Nutrition Specialist - Nutritional
information available for special diets, modifying recipes, restaurant dining tips,
nutritional assessment and recommendations based on healthy eating.
- Nutritional care - Articles about
nutritional care in geriatric medicine, palliative care; vegetarianism, and communication
in health care. Most are in German.
- Nutritional health analysis & metabolic
type dietary program - Alternative nutrition / metabolic type analysis based on your
dominant gland; your B.M.I rate and customized daily dietary chart and health plan based
on your individual data supplied
- Nutritional Supplements Reviewed -
Consumers who use specific supplements, including creatine and androstenedione, report how
well they work.
- Nutritional value of
Commercial Fruit - Nutritient strengths, including phytochemicals, of common
commercial fruits highlighted.
- OurFood Database - Information about general
bacteriology, systematic bacteriology, quick and modern food analytical methods,
physiology, yeasts and molds, contaminants, and other health related nutritional
information.
- Palate Works - Nutritional analysis and
resources for food businesses and consumers.
- Professor Michael Pariza's Home Page -
Principle Research Interests: Dietary anticarcinogens.
- Search the USDA Nutrient
Database for Standard Reference - Search the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard
Reference
- Steve's World: Health Sites
- Links to Health Related Sites including disease, medicine, and health-related links.
- Test your HEALTH TODAY! - An interactive
commercial website where you can 'test' your health via a lifestyle self survey form
online for free,
- Tufts University Nutrition Navigator - Fastest,
most reliable way to find online nutrition information. Experts at Tufts review and rank
nutrition Websites. Search by keyword or browse by audience or topic category.
- An
unnatural diet 'mal-nutrition' in the west-discussion - Degenerative diseases have
been described as the Wests 'silent epidemic'. Diabetes, heart disease, and cancer are
linked to the 'standard western diet'. Populations that eat almost exclusively from
unprocessed foods, have almost no degenerative disease. This opinion piece explores the
trends, and the burden we all face if we don't change our habits.
- USDA AMS National Organic Program - The public
comment period for the National Organic Program Proposed rule began December 16, 1997 and
officially closed on April 30, 1998.
- USDA Nutrient Values -
"A simple Web interface to the USDA Nutrient Database. Nutrient values are available
for 100 gram portions as well as two common serving sizes.[of any food you care to check
out. Almost] Percent RDA is given for males and females between the ages of 25 and 50.
These figures are basedon average body weight of 79kg (174 lbs) for men and 63kg (138 lbs)
for women."
- The vitamin C
content of fruit of the world. - The vitamin C content of over 50 commercial and wild
fruit is listed, both by serving and by 100 mg sample. Each fruit is ranked into
exceptional, excellent, very good, good, or fairly good source of ascorbic acid.
- WVDA- A Nutrition Resource - Provides nutrition
calculators for ideal body weight, calories burned, calorie intake, and body mass index.
The site also has other nutrition information and links.
- Zone links - The Zone is the name
of a diet designed by Barry Sears, PhD, and described in the books The Zone and Mastering
The Zone.
- Lipid Clinic News - Spring & Summer 1999
- Features articles on the virtues of soy protein, danger of eating egg yolks, facts about
high cholesterol, plus two new recipes. (September 1, 1999)
- Usenet sci.med.nutrition - news:
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