Government Agencies and Key Professional Associations
Other Food Issues: Organic Foods, Irradiation, Food Additives, Pesticides
Government Agencies and Key Professional Associations
(good starting points)
American Dietetic Association (ADA): Provides a wide variety of nutrition-related materials, including consumer-oriented fact sheets [http://www.eatright.org/nfs: on topics such as dietary fat, food safety, vegetarian diets, and functional foods. Detailed, scientific ADA position papers [http://www.eatright.org/positions.html: on fat replacers, vegetarian diets, food irradiation, and other issues are also available.
American Heart Association: Delicious Decisions: Provides guidelines and tips for eating a low-fat, heart-healthy diet, including advice for shopping and eating out.
FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition: Offers information about a variety of topics, including food labeling, food additives, dietary supplements, and foodborne illness; a special menu of consumer advice is also available at the site
Food and Nutrition Board/Institute of Medicine: Provides information about the Dietary Reference Intakes and related guidelines.
Health Canada: Food and Nutrition: Provides information about Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating as well as nutrition advice for people with special needs.
National Cancer Institute 5-A-Day Program: Promotes the consumption of five or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day. The following related sites provide tips and recipes to help people eat more fruits and vegetables, information about nutrient content, and special resources for kids and educators:
CDC/NCI: What Does It Take to Be Healthy?
Dole 5-A-Day: Nutrition Education
USDA Agricultural Marketing Service: Offers a helpful series of pamphlets ("How to buy . . .") that include practical, consumer-oriented advice about shopping for food.
USDA Agricultural Research Service: Provides data from national surveys tracking the eating habits of the American population.
USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion: Provides information about the Dietary Guidelines, the Food Guide Pyramid, the nutrient content of the U.S. food supply, and other topics.
USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center: A gateway to nutrition information that offers a variety of consumer-oriented materials relating to the Dietary Guidelines, food labels, Food Guide Pyramid, and many other topics; links to alternate food pyramids for people who eat ethnic foods, who are vegetarians, or who have special dietary needs are provided. The site also includes an extensive set of links.
Ask the Dietitian: Questions and answers on many topics relating to nutrition.
Center for Science in the Public Interest: Provides information on a variety of nutrition-related topics and selected articles from the Nutrition Action Health Letter.
Colorado State University Hypertextbook: Digestive System: Provides information about the digestive system and process.
Consumer Information Center: Food: Includes helpful brochures on a variety of topics related to safe and healthy nutrition practices.
CyberDiet: Provides a variety of resources, including a profile that calculates calorie and nutrient needs and a database that provides nutrition information in food label format.
Digestive Health Resource Center: Provides information on the digestive system and on common digestive problems; sponsored by the American Gastroenterological Association.
EatEthnic.Com: Provides information and links about ethnic foods and customs.
Eat Well, Live Well Information Centre: An Australian site that includes interactive dietary checklists, healthy eating tips, and information about Australian dietary guidelines.
FDA Consumer magazine: Often includes articles on a safe and healthy diet; you can search for articles on a particular topic by using the general FDA search page and selecting "FDA Consumer" from the pull-down menu.
Grains Nutrition Information Center: Provides information about whole grains and dietary fiber.
International Food Information Council: Provides helpful information on nutrition and food safety for consumers, journalists, and educators.
Martindales’s "Virtual" Nutrition Center: Provides information and links to many sites, including nutrition dictionaries, recipes, food safety information, and online nutrition calculators.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Standard Serving Sizes versus Real Serving Sizes: An online quiz designed to heighten your awareness of the serving sizes you actually consume.
Nebraska Cooperative Extension: Foods and Nutrition: Provides online brochures on a variety of topics, including the Food Guide Pyramid food groups, meal planning, food safety, and diets for special health concerns.
Nutrition Links: A university-based site with links to nutrition resources on many topics, including food-drug interactions, vegetarian diets, age-specific nutrition information, and many others.
Tufts University Nutrition Navigator: Provides descriptions and ratings for many nutrition-related Web pages.
Vegetarian Pages: Gives a variety of resources for people interested in becoming vegetarians and those who already follow a vegetarian diet.
Vegetarian Resource Group: Information and links for vegetarians and people interested in learning more about vegetarian diets.
FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition: Dietary Supplements Information: Provides information about supplement labeling and consumer warnings about particular products.
FDA MedWatch: Collects reports of adverse effects from dietary supplements, drugs, and medical devices; consumers can report adverse effects directly to the agency via the Web site.
Federal Trade Commission: Dietary Supplements—An Advertising Guide for Industry: Although directed at supplement sellers, these guidelines provide useful information about what is and what is not allowed in the advertising of dietary supplements.
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements: Provides general information about dietary supplements as well as an extensive database of scientific abstracts and citations about supplements.
Shape Up America: Supplements. Provides specific information about selected dietary supplements, with an emphasis on supplements promoted for improving exercise training and fitness.
USDA Dietary Supplements Information: Provides information on vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other types of dietary supplements.
U.S. Pharmacopeia: About Your Dietary Supplements. Provides information about selecting products and about how to read supplement labels.
U.S. Pharmacopeia: Just Ask About the Quality of Your Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Products: Provides information about evaluating the quality of vitamin and mineral supplements.
Abstracts of research studies on herbs, vitamins, and other dietary supplements are available at the following searchable sites:
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
All of the following sites provide consumer information about foodborne illness and safe food handling:
FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition home page: and consumer advice page.
FDA Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook ("The Bad Bug Book")
Gateway to Government Food Safety Information
National Food Processors Association Safe Food Consumers Web site
USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service: Publications for Consumers
Other Food Issues: Organic Foods, Irradiation, Food Additives, Pesticides
Center for Science in the Public Interest: Food Additives: Information and advice on food additives from an food safety advocacy group; site includes descriptions and evaluation of many types of additives.
Environmental Protection Agency: Pesticides and Food: Provides information about how the government regulates pesticides, potential health risks from pesticides, and healthy food practices for consumers.
FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition: Provides information on food additives, pesticides, and other chemicals.
USDA Agricultural Marketing Service: National Organic Program: Provides information on the development of federal organic standards.
USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service: Irradiation: Provides information on laws relating to food irradiation.
National Institutes of Health: Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases—National Resource Center: Provides information about osteoporosis prevention and treatment; includes a special section on men and osteoporosis.
National Osteoporosis Foundation: Provides up-to-date information on the causes, prevention, detection, and treatment of osteoporosis.
The following are just a few of the Web sites that present recipes and sample menus designed to promote good health.
American Heart Association: Delicious Decisions: Presents a variety of heart-healthy recipes.
CyberDiet Recipe Index: Includes a collection of low-fat recipes.
Healthy Ideas: Cooking and Nutrition: Includes a selection of healthy recipes as well as a before-and-after makeover of recipes traditionally high in fat and calories.
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis Virtual Cookbook: Provides a variety of healthy recipes; if you send in a traditional favorite, their dietitians will "lighten it up" and add the new version to the cookbook.
Meals for You: Includes a wide variety of recipes and meal plans; site has subject menus and is searchable by title or ingredient.
Meals Online: Provides a database of over 10,000 recipes, searchable by recipe title or ingredient.
National Cancer Institute 5-A-Day Recipes: Recipes containing at least one serving of fruits or vegetables.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Cooking the Heart-Healthy Way:. NHLBI also provides other recipe collections, including Heart-Healthy Cooking African American Style and Heart-Healthy Latino Recipes.
Searchable Online Archive of Recipes (SOAR): Search for recipes by key word or by category.
Vegetarian Resource Group: Recipes: A selection of vegetarian recipes.
Analysis of the Nutritional Content of Foods
USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center: In addition to a general, searchable database for all foods, this site also has special food composition data on carotenoids, trans fatty acids, sugar, isoflavones (soy products), and other nutrients of special interest to health.
Nutrition Analysis Tool, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
See also the listings for Chapters 13 (exercise), 14 (weight management), 15 (cardiovascular health), and 16 (cancer).
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