Vitamins and minerals, clinical nutrition, vitamin and mineral supplements, zinc, vitamin C, vitamin A, antioxidants.

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NUTRIENTS, VITAMINS AND MINERALS

General nutrient information
Dietary Guidelines, food guides
RDI, DRV issues
Individual nutrients and deficiencies
Nutritional toxicology
Supplementation and fortification

General nutrient information

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Nutrient Information: American Society for Nutr Sciences
Summaries of the biochemistry, food sources and clinical aspects of each of the major micronutrients, some macronutrients, and some of the less well known ones as well, such as manganese, molybdenum and nickel. Each written by one or more experts invited by the American Society for Nutritional Sciences

Lay information on common vitamins and minerals from the US government

Hopkins Technology web site has placed on line mainly plain text information on a range of nutrients, and a little about good food sources of the nutrient. Look down the list to around publication number 29.

Vitamins and Coenzymes

Biochemically oriented notes from Dpt.Biochemistry at Indiana State University on vitamins and minerals and their functions.

Understanding Vitamins

Good balanced and referenced article on the possible benefits as well as possibile problems of vitamin supplementation, set in the context of the physiological functions of the vitamins. It is part of an alternative HIV web site and so the focus is on that area of clinical application, but by no means restricted to it. There is also a more specific page on nutritional supplementation and AIDS.

Foodlines

Site set up by private individuals from Canada, with some on-line calculators and unit converters, lay information on diet and health, recipes and also sells diet analysis software.

Vitamin and mineral facts: Cyberdiet

Full RDI table plus some simple lay information on food sources, physiological functions, deficiency and toxicity symptoms.

Vitamin and Mineral content of plants

From the University of Maryland, James A. Duke has put together a set of on-line phytochemical and ethnobotanical data base. This enables you to query the composition relative to a large number of constituent compounds for any of some 2,000 species, "including most of the more important foods, spices, herbs and medicinal plants".

The nutrients in this data base include vitamins and minerals. See also the course on medical botany, which includes a chapter on phytochemicals

HealthLink Herbs and Supplements Database

Part of a wider site with membership options, this site provides quite detailed information on vitamins and minerals, from a supplement prescribing perspective. The most useful way to access it is to enter "vitamin" in the search engine.

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Individual nutrients and deficiencies

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General nutrition, RDIs

Public health/food security

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General Malnutrition

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cobalamin vitamin B12 cyanocobalamin

Vitamin B12

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folate

Folate

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vitamin A carotene carotenoid retinol retinoid

Vitamin A

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vitamin C, ascorbic, ascorbate

Vitamin C

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vitamin E, tocopherol, antioxidant, antioxidants

Vitamin E and antioxidant issues

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Fatty acids

AJCN supplement on individual fatty acids and cardiovascular disease

Abstracts of articles from a workshop, published in 1997.

Fats and Lipids Information

Food science perspective on fats and oils of various sorts. There is a separate section on food chemistry of lipids.

Essential fatty acids

Essential Fatty Acids, Lorenzo's Oil and Beyond: Article on EFA but specifically in the context of the `Lorenzo's Oil' story.
Fatty acid Oxidation Disorder Network: Newsletter "intended to be used as a resource for families, friends, doctors, researchers, etc."

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Misc. and combinations of nutrients

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Amino Acids: biochemistry

Brief outline of stereochemistry of the amino acids, with graphics. In German but with English translation as well.

Vitamin D Metabolism and Rickets

Very nicely put together site, authored by a non-physician (who however has a PhD in immunology). There is information on the immunology and biochemistry of vitamin D, testing for it, and on the clinical picture of rickets.

Vitamin D Deficiency

Radiological findings

Thiamin

Very biochemically oriented web page on vitamin B1. The material is detailed, has lots of structural pictures of the nutrient molecule (two and 3-D) and some clinical detail. The content comes from a project Glactone, which aims to "provide computer based resources for chemistry and biochemistry students and faculty in the State of Georgia", so it is pitched at a level which will be comfortable only for science or health professionals only.

The Thiamin Deficiency/ Congestive Heart Failure Cycle

Student project from Minnesota University course, this is a brief but well researched and referenced paper on the subject.

Course with student projects on vitamins and mineral biochemistry: Minnesota University

Student projects from Minnesota University course include:

Metabolic Database

Links to sites which show diagrams of metabolic pathways of organic compounds including amino acids, fatty acids and soy compounds.

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Supplement and fortification issues

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This is a collection of clinical nutrition links, such as vitamin, mineral and micronutrient deficiency diseases and states, the role of vitamin and mineral supplements and supplementation, iron deficiency, vitamin C, calcium, zinc, iodine, vitamin D, selenium, antioxidants, preventive medicine, nutrition. This is a collection of clinical nutrition links, such as vitamin, mineral and micronutrient deficiency diseases and states, the role of vitamin and mineral supplements and supplementation, iron deficiency, vitamin C, calcium, zinc, iodine, vitamin D, selenium, antioxidants, preventive medicine, nutrition. This is a collection of clinical nutrition links, such as vitamin, mineral and micronutrient deficiency diseases and states, the role of vitamin and mineral supplements and supplementation, iron deficiency, vitamin C, calcium, zinc, iodine, vitamin D, selenium, antioxidants, preventive medicine, nutrition.