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Risk groups
Special diets
Sports Nutrition
Surgical, nutrition support
Nutritional toxicology
Other clinical nutrition

Population sub-groups at nutritional risk

Geriatric nutrition
Obstetric and women's health nutrition
Paediatric nutrition
Psychiatry and mental health
Other risk groups

Special diets

 See also: Alternative nutrition
 

Atkins diet
Atkins Center
Newletter, schedule of events, information about relevant books and the diet itself on what claims to be the "official" Atkins diet web site.

Ketogenic Diet
Ketogenic Diet: The Family Village
Low carbohydrate diet used as an alternative nutrition therapy for epilepsy. This web site has information on the diet and links to other sites (including support groups) that are related to this.
Rick Loek's Ketogenic Diet Page
A good starting point for basic Ketogenic diet information.
Ketogenic diet support group for parents
Links to other sites on ketogenic diet.
Stanford University Medical Center Ketogenic Diet Information
Links to a wide variety of information about the Ketogenic diet.

Feingold diet
Feingold Association
Information about the diet, lists of published research, newsletter and other resources, as well as organistional detail. Other

Sports nutrition
Pick of the crop

Australian Institute for Sport: nutrition for sport
Various sections on sports nutrition, generally lay-oriented from Australia's premier institution for elite athletes. There are also some full text chapters available with a more health professional focus, written by Institute staff (e.g. on vegetarian sports nutrition, supplements etc.)

American Dietetic Association position paper on Nutrition For Athletic Adults
Balanced perspective from the American Dietetic Association, Dietitians of Canada, and the American College of Sports Medicine, with references.

Am Coll Sports Medicine
Various nutrition resources.
Ask the Dietitian: sports nutrition
Questions and answers page on a dietitian's web site.
Sportscience Compeat
Chatty articles on sports nutrition from a Sports Science web site, written by one of Australia's leading sports dietitians, Louise Burke. Written at a relatively sophisticated level, but one that is still capable of being understood by a lay person.
Sports Nutrition links: FNIC
USDA's Food and Nutrition Information Center's has a list of web sites devoted to sports nutrition, both lay and professional.

ADA: Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutritionist Dietetic Practice Group
Although there is a practice group on sports nutrition within the American Dietetics Association, you will need to be a member to have access to the section of their web site that relates to it.

Anorexia in athletes
Plain text articles for the lay person from an eating disorders web site.
Athletes and Eating Disorders
Short plain text article for lay people.
Basics of Sports nutrition
Simple exposition for lay people from exercise scientist.

Cyberpump! - NutriMuscle
A small series of chatty articles written by an exercise physiologists for people who `work out' in the gym environment.
Dietsite: sports nutrition
From a general lay nutrition site, information on such topics as sports drinks, caffeine and performance, creatine, using sports food and supplements
Human Kinetics
Commercial site specialising amongst other things in sports publishing. Their web site has a section on health and nutrition, and a more specialised one on sports nutrition. This includes the International Journal of Sport Nutrition, for which you can access tables of contents from 1995 on, links and a newsletter.
Parrillo's Sports Nutritional Guide
Technical bulletins and updates from a commercial web site involve in body building and selling supplements. Some of the material is referenced, but in the main it is a personal perspective involving products that are sold by them.
Runners World
Includes various nutrition resources and articles mainly from a lay perspective.
Sport Dietitians Australia
Mainly organisational information about this special interest dietitians group.
Sports Nutrition Foundation (UK)
Part of the National Sports Medicine Institute of the UK. This page has fairly detailed, lay-oriented and orthodox sports nutrition advice. This includes advice specific to individual sports.
sportsnutritionUK.com
From an individual nutritionist in the UK, the ste claims to offer "an unbiased source of practical sports nutrition advice". There are articles on sports nutrition research, individual sports, and links. Note: we were unable to contact the site when we last tried.
Sports Science Web Directory
Good listing of web sites related to sports medicine, including journals on-line.
Uni.of Vermont: Sports Nutrition Option
Brief course description of sports (plus athletic training) option

Surgical, hospital, nutrition support

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Toxicology and overload disorders

Note: see also sections on:
Iron overload
Individual nutrients
Pick of the crop

Hypervitaminosis
Short notes for physicians on clinical diagnosis and management of several hypervitaminoses. Note: this material is part of a commercial physician information site You need to register before accessing the material, and at present this provides a 30 day free access after which payment is required.

The information on hypervitaminoses includes:

  • Hypervitaminosis A
  • Hypervitaminosis C
  • Hypervitaminosis D

Contraindications and Possible Adverse Effects of Therapeutic Diets and Supplements
Plain text material on contraindications and side-effects of various nutrient supplements.

US DHSS: Case Studies in Lead Toxicity

Vitamin A overdose: a clinical case
You can't go to the case until you have registered at the main site.

Vitamin A excess and pregnancy
Transcript of Australian radio show on popular science.
Sweden: Center for Nutrition and Toxicology,
The Center is a mainly research institution which forms part of the Karolinska Institutet, and is within the Department of Biosciences. It also engages in public health nutrition teaching.
Vitamin and Mineral Toxicities in Adults
Detailed lay article (from Nebraska Extension catalogue of publications) which outlines the nutrients, symptoms and possible doses required to produce micronutrient toxicity. Unfortunately the most important table is not properly aligned, which makes it a little harder to read, but the information is good nonetheless.

Other clinical nutrition topics
Pick of the crop

Nutritopics: Peer-Reviewed Bibliographies
From FNIC, a series of bibliographies "reviewed by experts and professionals in the field". No abstracts, just citation details. Currently have topics on:

Living With COPD: Your Nutritional Status
Lay article wrtitten by a dietitian together with a physician at a medical clinic.
American Dietetic Association position paper on medical nutrition therapy
Making a case for the cost effectiveness of nutrition intervention in broad terms.
Nutrition disorders of the nervous system
Very short pathologist notes on various disorders, including toxic disorders (e.g. heavy metals), thiamin and vitamin B12 deficiency.
Cranberry juice reduces bacteriuria and pyuria
Review of some new research into the subject with positive outcomes from an Evidence Based Medicine journal.

 
Deficiency amblyopia
Brief lecture style notes, but you have to register with the web provider first.
National Guideline Clearinghouse: Nutrition guidelines
This is a government web site for guidelines of various sorts, some of which relate to nutrition.
NetBiochem
Short summaries of metabolic pathways from a medical biochemistry site. Many have graphics, and some have sound or animation files included. Topics are fairly comprehensive over the range of amino acid, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism and include: fatty acid, haem / heme and iron, membranes, nucleic acids, purines and pyramidines. As well as the straight biochemistry, there is a section with notes for an introductory course in nutrition.

Non Chew Cookbook
A cookbook for those unable to chew solid food. Sample recipes but you need to buy the real thing to get the rest of it.
Hypoglycemia Links and Information Page
Collection of links to more and less orthodox viewpoints on this diagnostic entity.
Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism - (UK)
Organisational information, newsletter, notice of meetings.
Food Drug Reaction
Plain text lay brochure developed in 1989 by American Pharmaceutical Association, Food and Drug Administration, Food Marketing Institute, and National Consumers League.