Foods and Nutrition Links

General Nutrition Information

• Tufts University Nutrition Navigator (with links to many web sites that have been evaluated and rated for accuracy)
• Center for Science in the Public Interest 
• Wadsworth publishers nutrition page (textbook site for Introductory Nutrition)
• Tufts University Health and Nutrition letter (site for the popular monthly nutrition newsletter)
• Food and Nutrition Information Center Nutrition Materials and Links
• Updated DRI's

Health Claims

•  FDA Center for food safety and applied nutrition - health claims overview with updates and end
• FDA Approved health claims listing in table format (a bit more up to date than previous link and in table rather than narrative form)
• DRI's information and current recommendations (reports and summaries from the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine)

Anatomy and Physiology - Cells to Systems  (Includes Digestion)

• Cells, Tissues to the Human Body (click on cell structures or digestion under the contents list)
• University of Arizona biology and chemistry tutorial and problem sets
• WebAnatomy  ( a group of self-assessment quizzes with answers on a variety of anatomy and physiology topics)
• Digestion games: matching, etc, ( a fun site to use for self assessment.....can you get them all right?)

Heart Disease

• Coronary Heart Disease Explained (this website has valuable information on heart disease and its risk factors as well as quizzes which you may find useful for test preparation and a "create-a-diet" tool

Weight Management

• Shape up America (a web page developed in conjunction with the surgeon general)
• National Weight Loss Registry (a web page describing a research project looking at individuals who have lost 30 pounds or more and kept it off for one year or longer)

Information on Popular Diets

• High protein / low carbohydrate diets (this is a web page taken from a larger critical thinking assignment designed by a faculty member at a University. Note that the information on these pages is not designed to give a balanced viewpoint)

Eating Disorders

• NOVA broadcast: "Dying to be thin"
• NOVA: personal stories of individuals with eating disorders
• eating disorders resources and assistance
• Eating Disorders tutorial and quiz (designed by experts and California Polytechnic State University, this gives key information on the three main eating disorders and has a quiz for self-assessment)

Vitamins and Minerals

•  Vitamins (Pictures of the vitamins and other compounds that were once thought to be vitamins with information on food sources)
• NIH consensus statement on osteoporosis (a detailed document outlining much of the current science regarding this disorder)

Pregnancy and Lactation

•  fetal development pictures  (a personal page which links descriptions of a woman's pregnancy to pictures of typical fetal development over 9 months....graphic intensive but fabulous to see)

Vegetarian Nutrition

• The Vegetarian Resource Group (a Baltimore-based group that supports vegetarian ideals)

General Health Information

• healthfinder  (has lots of good links to web pages for many disorders...scroll down to "directory of healthfinder organizations)
• Popular magazine ratings  (this reliable organization has evaluated many of the most popular magazines and rated them for accuracy)

• Evaluation of Dietary Supplements  (evaluation of contents of supplements.....limited information available free of charge....low cost subscription allows more complete access)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) office on Dietary Supplements (a nice database of information on dietary supplement)
• www.supplementwatch.com (a site that provides a review of scientific information on a large number of supplements) 
• Herbmed (an interactive herbal database - provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data)

Foods and Nutrient Information

• Fast Food Information ( a website that gives information on the nutrient content of many fast foods...I don't know how accurate it is!)
• USDA database of nutrient contents in food

Scientific Method - Evaluating Research

• types of nutrition studies (an article that describes the various nutrition studies. This link takes you to a summary page. At the bottom you can click on the full length article

Research Databases

• National Library of Medicine
  • Medline
  • PubMed
• links to journals in foods and nutrition

Diet and Energy Analysis Websites

• Online diet analysis and energy expenditure calculator

Evaluating Information on the Web

•     Evaluation of Websites  (a brief primer on evaluating web-based materials with several links)

Genetically Modified Foods

• NOVA: genetic engineering of foods - debate

Careers in Dietetics and other Health Professions

• online short video clips of various health professions (click on dietitian to see the job responsibilities of dietitians)