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For family physicians
Nutrition-related diseases
Nutrition assessment
Vitamins & minerals

Nutrition-related diseases

Alcohol

Cancer and nutrition

Cardiovascular disease nutrition

Diabetes

Food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease etc.

GIT disorders

HIV

Osteoporosis

Renal disease

Weight and eating disorders

Food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease etc.

Pick of the crop

Food allergy for the family physician

Part of a clinical nutrition series by Dr.Tony Helman.

ABC of Food Allergy: BMJ

The ABC series is one of the features of the British Medical Journal, offering an overview of important medical topics to general practitioners. Thanks to a very generous on-line implementation of the journal, the latest in this series on food allergy is now available.

Food Allergy Network

Patient oriented, (funded by grant from Kraft). "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 Allergy Center: Environmed Research Inc.

Home page for a commercial environmental medicine nutrition centre in the US. Their site gives access to lots of detailed material on their approach to food allergy.

Celiac Disease: lists of web sites

Medline plus: short but in categories.
Canadian Celiac Association: focus on products - Canadian and US - as well as lay information.
McMaster University: short list with brief annotations.
Don Wiss' list: short, mostly sites on gluten-free diet.

Celiac Disease: A Guide for children and their families

Booklet includes nutritional aspects the disease. National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse

Lengthy on-line lay explanation with tables, from NIH.

Scott's Celiac Disease Help Page

One lay guy's personal experience, but also lots of links.

Lactose Intolerance Page

Lay site with information on cooking without lactose, lactose-free products, links to other Internet sites etc.

NIH lay document on lactose intolerance

Informative and quite detailed with some tables and graphics.

The No Milk Page

Perhaps the best listing of Internet sites on this subject, set out in an explanatory, annotated way.

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GIT disorders

For health professionals


American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: Details about themselves, plus resources for health professionals and lay public.
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: Information on the organisation and some papers on clinical topics.
The Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology: Content and abstracts from 1995.
Nutrition and gastrointestinal disorders: journal review: Good referenced article from the Asia Pacific J Clin Nutr.
Nutrition and Crohn's disease, IBD: T he Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America has some material on nutrition.

Child and Adolescent Health: From WHO, various materials which include nutrition aspects of diarrhoea.
North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition: Information about the Society, position statements, lay disease information, links, including information on the Association of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Nurses and the Children’s Digestive Health and Nutrition Foundation.

For lay public

Nutritional Restart Center: for people with malabsorptive disorders: A national center concerned with malabsorptive disorders. Their web site has contact information for themselves, a few FAQ and literature citations, but not much else.

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HIV and nutrition

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HIV nutrition for health professionals

HIV: Lay and patient information These sections have moved .

Osteoporosis

See also: Calcium

Osteoporosis: for health professionals
Osteoporosis: lay and patient information

Osteoporosis for health professionals

Pick of the crop

Osteoporosis Guidelines: American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists

From an expert panel which deliberated in 1996. These are very detailed, referenced and pragmatic guidelines for physicians. Calcium supplementation and dietary intake is dealt with in detail, with some reference to fluoride but only the briefest mention of magnesium. There are tables of calcium content of dietary sources and of various supplementary products. Also some graph material. Excellent resource.

NIH Consensus Statement Overview: Osteoporosis Prevention, Diagnosis, and Therapy

This version was released in March 2000.

Osteoporosis - Doctor's Guide to the Internet

As usual for this excellent medical cybersite, a most useful collection of resources for patients, including: medical news and alerts, links to other sites, inforrmation on patient support groups etc.

Osteoporosis Society

The Osteoporosis Society web site has material for lay and health professional users, including annotated bibliographies on relevant topics such as osteoporosis and:

Calcium
Sodium Fluoride
Alchohol
Eating Disorders and Bone Density

. However, its value is sharply diminished by the annoying requirement to log in via a questionnaire every time you want to access the deeper level health professionals material such as the bibliographies. We hope they abandon this practice soon!

Osteovision

The aim of the center is to transmit information in the field of bone and calcium metabolism to scientists and physicians. Its use is free of charge." Features include: news briefs, database of contacts (including e-mail addresses of people in the field), meetings,, material on workshops on cell biology and bisphosphonatesa slide collection on bisphosphonates' and abstracts from articles published in Bone, Advances in Osteoporosis and even information on the job market!!

Advances in Osteoporosis

On-line version of a printed journal. For each issue for 1996-7, there is not exactly a TOC but a listing of topic areas. Click on one and you can scroll through abstracts of each article in that section. There is also a rather long introduction from the editor in which he introduces and comments on many of the articles. On top of this, you can search for articles in an accumulated data base of osteoporosis articles, taken from many journals other than this one, but although you can search with Medline like field choices and Boolean logic, you are returned only the full citations, not the abstracts!

Calcium and vitamin D for preventing hip fractures: critical appraisal

From conference held on osteoporosis by an Evidence Based Medicine journal publisher, this article looks carefully at the subject from a critical appraisal perspective.

European Foundation for Osteoporosis

There is a report on-line on osteoporosis in Europe (in many languages) from this Foundation, but we could not find the organisation's main web site.

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Osteoporosis for lay and patient use

Arizona Dietetic Project: This site (which was formerly a general nutrition links catalogue) is now focussed on links and some clinical material (e.g. on phosphorus) for renal dietitians. Thus there are lots of general medical links, as well as nutrition ones.

Osteoporosis Online: Canadian web site sponsored by Canadian Dairy Products.
Osteoporosis - alternative outlooks from HealthWorld Online: Links to alternative web sites related to nutrition and osteoporosis.

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Renal disease

Journal of Renal Nutrition: Abstracts and table of contents plus search engine and subscribing information make this a useful on-line addition to the printed journal.

Council on Renal Nutrition: Part of the National Kidney Foundation, their web site has organisational details and contacts, patient and professional education information, access to the Journal of Renal Nutrition and information on lobbying activities.
Dialysis Online!: Message and chat service for those involved in dialysis, with separate mailing lists for nurses, dietitians, nephrologistst etc.
Nutrition Resources: Nephron Information Center: Reasonable collectino of links with some description.
RENALNET -- Internet resources for renal dietitians: Short list of links to information, patient education and software, with descriptions.
Software: NutriGenie - Kidney Disease Nutrition: Can download evaluation copy only of this commercial software package "based on U.S. Surgeon General's and National Institutes of Health's guidelines for kidney disease dietary management."
Cranberry juice reduces bacteriuria and pyuria: Review of some new research into the subject with positive outcomes from an Evidence Based Medicine journal.

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