Cancer and Nutrition Information
on the Web

The resources located here are of a general nature and may be of interest to both the patient and the health professional.

Professional/Commercial Sites/University Links

Arbor Communications: nutrition resource pages (Tony Helman).
Also links to film production, health professional, medicine. Excellent page for links, both useful and not-so-useful links. Covers many areas of nutrition.

Arizona Health Sciences Library: Nutrition Page
"This guide contains selected important nutrition resources on the Internet and provides general educational, research, and health care information for interested Web users."

Ask an RD
Why to choose a Registered Dietitian. RD Homepage. Kathrynne Holden, MS,RD publishes a newsletter geared for the mature person. For more information: e-mail fivstar@fortnet.org. Here are a series of FAQs Kathrynne has received on various topics.

Ask NOAH About: Nutrition
From City University of New York. Be sure to browse rest of site; spanish too.

Ask the Dietitian (tm).
Dietitian's homepage. Questions and answers on wide variety of topics.

CyberDiet's Home Page
"Timi Gustafson is a registered dietition. She practices in Northern California and now is on the net sharing her expertise with visitors to this site. The information that you get here won't be about"miracle soup", diet pills, Stillman, Atkins, Beverly Hills or any other fad diet. It is good, sound nutritional advice from a credentialed professional."

CyberNutrition On-LineFrom Syracuse University. (Off-line during summer months.)

Dietary Information
Cholesterol, figuring fat calories. From U. of Montana

Dietetics Online.
(Site provided by the registered dietitians who brought you Dietetics On-Line on America On-Line)."The D.O. Co-Founders hope that this home page will provide the Dietetic and Nutrition Professional with a means of obtaining networking information,posting advertisements for professional educational materials, find and advertise employment announcements, access D.O. Journal Club chat logs and RD Idea Exchange chat logs from our live interactive meetings on America Online."

Dole 5 A Day

El WEB de Nutrición Humana, en México
Nutrition information in Spanish.

Food Allergies
From IFIC Foundation

Food allergy network homepage
"The Food Allergy Network (FAN) is a nonprofit organization established to help families living with food allergies, and to increase public awareness about food allergies and anaphylaxis (a severe life-threatening reaction). FAN provides education, emotional support, and coping strategies."

Food and Nutrition Sources
from University of Michigan.

Food Pyramid

Food Sci & Nutr Sites of Interest.
University oriented sites from U. of Minnesota.

Go Ask Alice!
Ask Alice about relationships, nutrition and diet, drugs, sex, alcohol, stress, etc. The contents of Go Ask Alice are not intended to provide personal medical diagnoses and treatment. From Columbia University Student Health.

Good Health Web
"The Good Health Web is an attempt to bring together valuable information about the field of Health." Information on variety of health-related topics and concerns. Good list of Usenet groups. Nutritional info can be found via the library.

The Hacker's Diet
A computer programmer's approach to weight loss. "This book is about...How to... It's a how-to book, but not a cookbook. Everybody's different, and no one diet is right for all. This book will help you find a diet plan that works for you."

Health and Nutrition Reference Information
Information relating to nutrition health and fitness. Possibility of additions from nutrition textbooks.

Healthy Nutrition
From Long Beach Community Medical Center. Nicely done page; nutrition quiz.

HES Extension - Food Science and Human Nutrition
From U of Missouri, Columbia. Informative newsletter with search capabilities.

Internet Public Library: General Health and Nutrition.
Range of topics with links to related sites.

JHMI-InfoNet: Patient Advocacy Groups
Extensive list of telephone numbers, some links.

McKinley Health Center (Urbana, Illinois)
Gopher menu with information on different health topics including health promotion, nutrition, stress, and more.

NPIN
Items in this area of the National Parent Information Network are all ERIC Digests. ERIC Digests are short reports on topics of current interest in education. Digests are targeted to teachers, administrators, parents, policy makers, and other practitioners. They are designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic and references to items that provide more detailed information.

Nutrition and Diet Services
Nutrition and Diet Services was founded in 1980 by Chedwah Stein. Chedwah is a registered dietitian and former manager of the Nutrition section of the Oregon State Health Division.The goal of NDS is to provide accurate and speedy nutrition sevices. Services (for fee) include product labeling; food analysis; recipe reformulation.

Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans
1990 and 1995.

The Nutrition Expert.
"The Nutrition Expert, is a group of Registered dietitians dedicated to providing high quality nutrition information to the web community." Dietitians from Alaska.

The Selfhelp Directory
An alphabetical index of various links with information on medical and psychological disorders and related sites.

The Visible Human Project

WellnessWeb: The Patient's Network.
Diverse resources for patients and their families.

Sports Nutrition

LIFELINES Nutrition & Fitness Links: Internet Connections to Nutrition and Fitness Sites on Gopher and the World Wide Web

Masters Athlete Physiology and Performance

The Training-Nutrition home page
Resources for sports nutrition

Worldguide: Health & Fitness.
Information on sports medicine and nutrition.

Food Value Databases

Fast Food Facts - Interactive Food Finder
Searchable database for fast food contents. Based on the book Fast Food Facts by the Minnesota Attorney General's Office.

NDL Food Composition Data
Data sets prepared by USDA-ARS's Nutrient Data Laboratory. These data sets can be downloaded to your computer and used in your programs. Some of the data sets available are the USDA Nutrient Data Base for Standard Reference, Nutritive Value of Foods (HG-72), Sugar Content of Foods, the USDA Nutrient Data Base for Food Consumption Surveys(and data sets used to create it: Primary Nutrient Data Set, Recipe Files, and Nutrient Retention Factors) and data sets based on tables of special interest. It is recommended to copy those portions of of interest (e.g., codes for nutrients) in the reference manual to a text file that can be viewed while searching for particular foods.

Nutrition Analyzer
Form for personal nutrition profile. fill out the form below and get back a complete personalized nutritional profile based on the 29 nutrients found in the Personal Food Analyst. Uses 60%CHO-15%P-25%Fat plus RDAs.

Nutritive Value of Foods
This page allows a search of the 1,170 standard foods' data provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Handbook 8). You may enter the complete or partial food name. From the U. of Minnesota.

Restaurant Managemnet Intro UIUC
"The Nutrient Analysis Tool (NAT) is a fully functional nutrient analysis program available free via the World Wide Web. Utilizing the USDA database (Handbook #8), NAT brings you the power to analyze your diet for 21 important nutrients. NAT has a step by step introducion to quickly and easily teach you the various functions of the tool. Please try it out and tell your friends!" Very well done, from U. of Illinois.

Alternative Health Perspectives

Brian's HealthWatch Page

"Complementary/Alternative Medicine"
from Intelisoft Multimedia, Inc.

Conscious Choice
Conscious Choice is a bi-monthly magazine of the American Midwest that reports on environmental issues and natural alternatives in health care, food, and nutrition.

Health & LongevityNaturopathy, herbology, nutrition, and homeopathy Newsletter.

Joon Too's Homepage
Vegetarian perspectives.

Vegetarian Resource Group.
Index of documents.

Newsgroup: rec.food.veg
Vegetarian Usegroup.

Government Resources

Internet Sources of Government Information
Extensive text list of addresses.

FDA

US FDA/CFSAN Homepage.

The food pyramid.

FDA News.

Introduction to Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins.

The Pyramid and the Label.

USDA

Food and Nutrition Information Center.

Health Alerts
Concerning food safety and disease. Also pregnancy and lactation.

Electronic publication database.
From Food and Nutrition Information Center.

Food and Consumer Service Homepage
The Food and Consumer Service administers the 15 food assistance programs of the U.S.Department of Agriculture.

Information on new food label.

Food and Consumer Service
Food and Consumer Service (FCS) Home Page.

Team Nutrition
USDA's School Meal Initiative for Healthy School Meals - Food and Nutrition Information Center.

USHHS

International

American Public Health Association (APHA) International Nutrition Clearinghouse
The APHA International Clearinghouse is a center for information on the health and nutrition of women and children. Supported by the USAID Office of Health and Nutrition, the Clearinghouse: - disseminates information to practitioners in Asia, Africa and Latin America, primarily through the bulletin MOTHERS AND CHILDREN -strengthens the capacity of field-based organizations to produce and disseminate information -promotes networking among organizations and individuals -produces information and publications

Clinical

Clinical Preventive Services
"The entire text of the commercially published version of the 1989 report of the U.S.Preventive Services Task Force, the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services."

CPG Infobase
From Canadian Medical Association. The clinical practice guidelines in this collection were produced or endorsed by a national, provincial or territorial medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel. This new product is being developed in three stages. During the first stage, CMA is providing access to guidelines previously published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ); the guidelines to which CMAJ does not hold copyright are listed and the full text will be added when the developers have granted permission. Other guidelines will be added as they become available.

European Council on Eating Disorders
Newsletter with links to Council.

Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, Inc.
The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making is a not-for-profit corporation established in July 1989 and located in Hanover, New Hampshire. The mission of the Foundation is to obtain and make available the information needed to enable informed medical decision-making.

Healthgate
Healthgate provides a wide range of information for both the consumer and the professional. "Our objective is to facilitate improvements in patient care, biomedical research, and education by employing state-of-the-art technology to make information access and coverage both thorough and easy, while maintaining the highest standards of academic and scientific integrity." Site worth exploring.

HSTAT
The National Library of Medicine's Health Services/Technology Assessment Text. Links to clinical practice and clinical research databases .

Interactive Patient Home Page
This teaching tool for physicians, residents and medical students offers a case with a chief complaint to the user who then has to interact with the patient requesting additional history, performing a physical exam, and reviewing laboratory data and x-rays.

Iron deficiency in adults
Iron Status Advisory Panel Guide to Iron Deficiency in Adults (Australian ).

MINERALS
This Guide contains an Overview and information on Calcium, Magnesium, Iron,Iodine,Copper, Zinc, Manganese, Chromium, Potassium, Selenium,and trace minerals.

MN-NET home page
Micronutrient resource. Deficiencies, therapies.

NFSD: Food Safety for People with Special Needs
Information for persons with AIDS (Spanish also), elderly.

Patient Education
Media oriented. From Physician's Guide to the Internet

Patient Educations Sheets from FHP.

Protein Basics

Resources listed by medical specialties.