Clinical nutrition, parenteral nutrition, pediatric, sports medicine, women's health, geriatric nutrition, psychiatry

Adolescent nutrition

Geriatric nutrition

Obstetric and women's health nutrition

Paediatric nutrition

Psychiatry and mental health

Other risk groups

See also Sports nutrition

Pick of the crop CDC's Adolescent and School Health Index CDC (Center For Disease Control) full text report on causes of disease and issues for prevention and health promotion amongst adolescents and children. This includes: Guidelines for School Health Programs to Promote Lifelong Healthy Eating

ADA: Child and adolescent food and nutrition programs

Plain text referenced position statement on both school feeding programs and nutrition education for children and adolescents.

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

Journal in AMA Archives series which has occasional articles on nutrition

Eating Disorders in Teenagers

Brief but good common sense plain text background information and advice.

Referenced plain text document for health professionals produced for the National Institute of Nutrition.

Health Risk Factors for Adolescents

Links to web resources in health and nutrition areas, such as overweight and alcohol abuse.

Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth

DHSS report (in PDF format) with whole range of statistical data about children and teenagers, including tables on prevalence of overweight disorders.

 

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Sites for health professionals

Lay sites: geriatric

Professional geriatric nutrition

Pick of the crop National Policy and Research Center on Nutrition and Aging Invaluable resource housed at Florida International University. The Center "enhances the implementation of the Older Americans Act Elderly Nutrition Program through knowledge building, policy analysis, training, technical assistance and information dissemination on nutrition and aging. Reflecting national cost containment trends, the Center is dedicated to: Risk-based outreach to serve the most nutritionally needy elders, Expansion of nutrition services in aging programs including congregate and home-delivered meals programs to reduce malnutrition Multidisciplinary nutrition care management to improve quality of life, promote independence, and decrease premature nursing home admissions and hospitalizations." The web site has documents from or on: Administration on Aging, Morning Meals on Wheels Breakfast program, bibliographies, American Dietetic Association documents, as well as its own links section. The Merck Manual of Geriatrics: Nutrition Excellent summary of the problems of geriatric nutrition in plain text format but with tables. Nutrition screening in older people: Annual Reviews of Nutrition Excellent summary of the literature. Nutrition Screening Initiative. A joint project to improve nutritional screening of elderly patients in primary care, undertaken by the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Dietetic Association and the National Council on Aging. The web site describes the project, but also offers some toold, such as an assessment questionnaire for patients on their nutritional health and assessment tools for physicians, There is also an Acrobat article on The Role of Nutrition in Chronic Disease Care.

Administration on Aging

They have lots of material for lay and health professionals alike in this section of the DHSS. Includes a huge links section and information on their Elderly Nutrition Program, which provides meals to the elderly in group and home settings and for which there has been a formal evaluation which is available on-line.

Am J Clin Nutr special issue on nutrition in aging

Special October 1997 issue devoted to articles on nutrition in the elderly. Includes full text in .pdf format of editorials, and abstracts of research articles and reviews. Topics include the geriatric perspective on: vitamin B12 in the elderly, the role of micronutrients (including thiamin, carotene and vitamin C), nutrition and cognitive function and cardiovascular nutrition.

American Dietetic Association: Gerontological Nutritionists

The ADA has a number of resources related to nutrition in the elderly, including a specialised practice group on the elderly. However, you need to be a member to access this part of the site. Fortunately this practice group also has its own web page, with information on resources and on the group itself, its activities and meetings. There are also some links, and bibliographies. The ADA also has some position statements relevant to the elderly

American Dietetic Association: Nutrition, aging, and the continuum of care

Long, referenced plain text position statement published in 1996. Another position statement concerns Liberalized diets for older adults in long-term care.

British Dietitians Association: Nutrition Advisory Group for Elderly People

Specialist group of The British Dietetic Association. Information about the group and some links.

Huntington's Disease: Internet Resources Relating to Nutrition

A few links with descriptions.

Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging

Part of Tufts Univ. Their web site has organisational information and access to search engine for publications of the Center.

Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly

Few abstracts only from issue 14 (1994 and 1995) in library archives web site BUBL.

Nat'l Academy Press, The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Health in the Nation's Elderly: (1999)

From National Academy of Science, a useful report.

National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging

This organisation operates within the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and "acquires and preserves data relevant to gerontological research, processing as needed to promote effective research use, disseminates them to researchers, and facilitates their use." They have a newsletter, links and a collection of data on aging that includes health and nutrition relevant information.

National Institute on Aging

Part of the NIH, the web site has information on their research, publications, links to related sites.

National Policy and Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging

Organisational information and a range of documents, bibliographies etc.

Nutrition in the elderly

Part of "Multidisciplinary Education in Geriatrics and Aging" web site, which offers "a hypermedia, computerized learning experience. The computerized modules combine text with video segments, slides, animations, interactive experiences, graphs, and tables." As yet a good deal of it is plain text.

Women's Health and Aging Study

From the National Institute on Aging of the NIH, this is a plain text report on-line (with tables and references) that includes information on body composition, haematological and biochemical nutrtiional status of elderly women in the USA.

Lay geriatric nutrition

Pick of the crop American Dietetic Association The ADA has a number of lay resources for the elderly.

Nutrition You Can Live With

Formerly known as " Ask an RD", this site is authored by Kathrynne Holden, a dietitian specializing in the nutrition for Parkinson's disease. It contains downloadable articles, and promotes her books, seminars, and manuals.

Food Guide Pyramid for Older Adults

Plain text article for lay people on how appropriate the food pyramid is for this age group.

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Nutrition and Mental Illness

Article from alternative medicine company with a review of research showing micronutritional problems and responses to supplementation of those with mental illness.

Nutrition and mental health: Senate hearing 1977

Full transcript of this famous hearing by the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs held on June 22, 1977, at which various well known figures (including Dr.Ben Feingold) spoke with a view generally supportive of a link between diet and mental health, views that at that time were not widely accepted.

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The Role of Nutrition in Chronic Disease Care.

From the American Academy of Family Physicians, and article on nutrition in chronic illness, particularly applicable to the elderly patient.

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