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Vegetarianism

`Alternative' nutrition (incl. `orthomolecular')

`Alternative nutrition' journals

Commercial nutrition enterprises

Miscellaneous nutrition

Nutrition conferences

Vegetarianism

ADA position on vegetarianism

Very useful resource with a health professional perspective.

Animal Rights: links to nutrition sites

As one might expect, the emphasis is strongly pro vegetarianism. Iron issues get a strong coverage as well.

Australian Vegetarian Society

Articles from their magazine, vegetarian shopping resources, information on benefits of vegetarian liefstyle.

European Vegetarian Union

Umbrella organisation for many national vegetarian groups. The web site had articles on animal rights and nutrition issues, contact details of member organisations, and can be accessed in many languages.

Vegetarianism

Management information for the family physician.

Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG)

Links and articles.

Diabetes and a Vegetarian Diet

Toronto Vegetarian Association

Links, news and political action.

Iron in the vegetarian diet

Reassuring information with iron food values, but rather selective in its references and only deals lightly with absorbability issues.

Vegweb: Veggies Unite!

Vegetarian recipes and recipe search engine! List of vegetarian resources on the Internet, Q&A etc.

Vegetarian Pages

Good listing of Internet vegetarian sites. At present the site is being revamped.

The Vegetarian Youth Network Home Page

Common interest group for vegetarian teenagers. Site has some recipe and book information, reasons to be vegetarian etc.

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`Alternative' nutrition

Links to alternative nutrition sites

Anti-`quackery' sites

Alternative nutrition organisations

Orthomolecular medicine

Personal perspectives

Other alternative nutrition

Healthy.Net - Nutrition Center: Nutrition Resource Center: Links to alternative nutrition resources, organisations, journals etc. (some of which charge for information).

Anti-`quackery' sites

National Council Against Health Fraud
QuackWatch: Something of a personal crusade by physician Dr.Stephen Barrett, this site contains a mixture of short and long articles by him on various practices which he believes to be unscientific or scams of one sort or another, many of which have a nutritional flavour. There are also other resources, including the repor on Unconventional Cancer Treatments from the Office of Technology Assessment , and a dictionary of unconventional approaches to health and healing. There is a search engine.
Unconventional Cancer Treatments: Office of Technology Assessment: Courtesy of Quackwatch, the Office of Technology Assessment's report on "Unconventional Cancer Treatments" from 1990, which has an entire chapter on unconventional dietary approaches, including such examples as the Gerson, Kelley and Gonzalez regimens, macrobiotic diet and coffee enemas. Closely referenced.

Alternative organisations

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - National Institutes of Health - NIH: "conducts supports basic and applied research and training and information on complementary and alternative medicine to and the public." Their web site has information on their program, including research grants and centres doing this kind of work.
American College for Advancement in Medicine: "The American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) is a non-profit alternative medicine society dedicated to educating physicians on the latest findings and emerging procedures in preventive/nutritional medicine." This site contains listings of members, conference information and `bookstore' for ordering only. "
American Holistic Medical Association: General preventive and alternative medical group, which has an on-line journal and some of which relates to nutrition.

National Council Against Health Fraud: Information on the organisation, various positions papers including on Amalgam Fillings (2002)and on Diet and Criminal Behavior (1983).
Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine: Information on the organisation and the courses that it offers, as well as table of contents from its Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine.

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Orthomolecular medicine

Note: "Orthomolecular medicine" in this context refers to the use of high dose (well above RDI level) nutritional supplementation as a treatment for disease in humans.

Orthomolecular medicine links: Dr.Robert Cathcart: Home page of this well known advocate of high dose vitamin C has links to articles by Dr.Cathcart and to other orthomolecular web sites.
Orthomolecular Medicine Online: News, links, organisational information on International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine and Canadian Schizophrenia Foundation, access to material on Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.
International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine: Brief organisational information plus access to Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine
Megavitamin and Megamineral Therapy in Childhood: Position statement of the Canadian Paediatric Society presented as a referenced paper, which as you might expect takes a conservative line particularly in light of the age group that is involved here.
Nutrition and the Mind: Published in 1994, this is an on-line full text version of a book recounting the perspectives and experiences of various physicians with nutritional aspects of psychological and psychiatric conditions. It has an orthomolecular flavour.

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Personal perspectives

Austin Reference Guide for Vitamins: Austin appear to be a supplement company, and this is an essentially very brief, lay-oriented summary information on vitamins, minerals, herbs etc. with an alternative bent.
Environmental and Preventive Health Center of Atlanta: Series of short articles on environmental/nutrition material, of an alternative bent (candida, chronic fatigue, mercury poisoning, iron overload etc. )
Healthy Ideas: Web site launched by Prevention Magazine and Women's Wire for lay audience dealing with general health, from a natural and naturopathic perspective, particularly relating to children and women's issues. There is a strong nutrition focus, including recipes, vitamin supplement ideas (on a dial-a-vitamin type of approach and mainly unreferenced)
HealthComm; functional medicine: Company founded by Jeffrey Bland to focus on "biochemical individuality, metabolic balance, ecological context, and unique personal experience in the dynamics of health." In practice, a lot of alternative nutritional approaches are used. This site has a good deal of information about the company and its research and promotional activities and some introduction to the concepts of functional medicine, but not much in the way of direct clinical teaching material.
Macrobiotics Online: From Kushi Institute, information on courses, healthy vacations and about their own organisation and its products.
Not Milk: Man with a mission - in this case why he thinks milk is very bad for you. He has written a book on the subject which this site is partly a promotion for. But it also has its own content. His concerns focus on milk allergy and particularly in the alien substances such as antibiotics, hormones and pesticides that he states wind up in milk.
Nutramed: Environmed Research Inc.: Environmental nutrition organisation with a commercial string. The site has lots of alternative nutrition material, much of it expressing individual viewpoints. "You will find here a rich source of nutritional information, and an introduction to innovative solutions such as the Core Program."
Nutrimed.com: Commercial site. Has a newsletter with articles on various alternative nutrition approaches, and a disease indexed section entitled "Nutritional Therapy" which recommends nutritional supplements from a particular commercial range.
Nutrition Reporter: "magazine and newsletter articles describing recent research on vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients, with an emphasis on their therapeutic applications." An alternative perspective, with supplement-positive viewpoint.
NutritionZone: Solidly pro-supplement site with articles about various nutrients, email-your-questions facility and newsletter.
Townsend letter: Alternative medicine newsletter "for doctors and patients" with a strong nutritional flavour.

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Other alternative nutrition

See also: Special diets

American Indian Ethnobotany Database: Searchable data base on foods, drugs, and other natural products used by Native North American Peoples.
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.
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.
Low carb Mailing Lists: Information on mailing lists.
Megavitamin and Megamineral Therapy in Childhood: Position statement of the Canadian Paediatric Society presented as a referenced paper, which as you might expect takes a conservative line particularly in light of the age group that is involved here.
Nutrition Science News Magazine: This is a web site of an alternative nature, featuring issues of a "journal of natural products research and innovation". It is evidently distributed to pharmacists. There are a number of Acrobat format documents from continuing education modules.
QuackWatch: Organisation to monitor health fraud, their web site has postings from discussion groups and some FAQ and position-type statements on specific issues.

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Miscellaneous nutrition matters

Krispin Komments

Krispin Sullivan lists himself as a clinical nutritionist, and this is his personal perspective on a few nutritional and food issues.

McDonald's leaflet: Nutrition-a question of balance

Company view on the nutritional issues involved in their products, including a comparative nutrient analysis table at focused on macronutrients.

Healthy Foods and Nutrition: Hungary

Since we don't understand Hungarian we are unable to say too much about this web site, which appears to be promoting some nutrition product (English information is provided) as well as Nutrigenie nutrition analysis software, and has some other general nutrition information. Perhaps the most useful part of the site is a table with translations of a large number of foods in English, Hungarian, German and proper botanical names

Army Dietetics

Very brief description of their role and recruiting contact.

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Nutrition conferences

Doctor's Guide list of nutrition conferences: From the medical cybersite Doctor's Guide , this list goes through to the following year, and has brief information on the conference and contacts (including email address where possible).
Events in Bioscience and Medicine: Good search engine for medical meetings, but not strong on nutrition conferences.
List of Upcoming International Trade Shows and Other Events in Agriculture: Includes some on food composition and food science.

This is a collection of links on vegetarianism and vegetarians, miscellaneous nutrition topics, alternative and complementary therapies and nutrition , people's individual persectives and on organic food producing principles. This is a collection of links on vegetarianism and vegetarians, miscellaneous nutrition topics, alternative and complementary therapies and nutrition , people's individual persectives and on organic food producing principles. This is a collection of links on vegetarianism and vegetarians, miscellaneous nutrition topics, alternative and complementary therapies and nutrition , people's individual persectives and on organic food producing principles.