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PATIENT and LAY INFORMATION

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American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation: Patient Education Program

A project of American Academy of Family Physicians to list and link to patient education materials of various formats, particularly printed. These "have been favorably reviewed for a variety of criteria including scientific accuracy, content, and appropriateness for use in a family practice setting. The PEP database is a service created to assist health professionals in identifying appropriate patient education materials for their office."

The source of this material varies widely, and certainly includes commercial organisations. A wide variety of nutrition materials are listed. A search engine allows you to specify topic, Grade level for content, and language (mostly Spanish).

This is an invaluable resource.

Nutrition.gov: A site specifically set up to provide information and links to US government resources (web sites, publications etc.) related to nutrition. The resources include those from universities, not just directly government organisations

American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation: Patient Education Program: A project of American Academy of Family Physicians to list and linkn to patient education materials of various formats, "which have been favorably reviewed for a variety of criteria including scientific accuracy, content, and appropriateness for use in a family practice setting. The PEP database is a service created to assist health professionals in identifying appropriate patient education materials for their office.
Excellent resource.
Combined Health Information Database: Large data base of health education information held by US government agencies. The data in fact is a mixture of abstracts of research articles, pamhplets and audiovisual material, some of which is from private industry. The search engine returns information about the resources and where to get them, not the resources themselves.
US Government lay nutrition publications: Hopkins Technology: This web site has placed on-line the (currently) mostly plain text source material of nearly a hundred government resource pamphlets and publications relating to lay information on food and nutrition. Most are relatively short.
Directory of Nutrition booklets (CSIRO, Australia): Hyperlinked list of organisations that put out nutrition pamphlets. "The purpose . is to provide a list of "reputable organisations that produce books, pamphlets and other resources about food, nutrition, safe food handling practices and health."
Consumer Information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: "free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. healthfinder® can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public."

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FOOD Questions and Answers: Now here is something really useful. Two of Australia's leading nutrition academics have put together a nicely laid out site which is essentially a Q&A on many of `myths' and controversies in nutrition, particularly those relating to food. They offer common sense, orthodox, easy to read, and short answers. There is a topic index and also a search engine. Excellent resource!
Nutrient Information: American Society for Nutr Sciences: Summaries of the biochemistry, food sources and clinical aspects of a wide range of nutrients each written by an invited expert by the American Society for Nutritional Sciences
American Dietetic Association: Nutrition Fact Sheets: The value is the orthodox expertise behind these fact sheets, and the fact that there are lots of them, and more are added regularly. Some are plain text, others have illustrations and some are in colour. Some have suggested links to additional resources.
US Government lay nutrition publications: Hopkins Technology: This web site has placed on-line the (currently) mostly plain text source material of nearly a hundred government resource pamphlets and publications relating to lay information on food and nutrition. Most are relatively short.
Nutritional Education for New Americans Project: "Materials in 31 languages, which are available to anyone. Language sets contain Food Pyramids plus four handouts for healthy adults, mothers and babies, mature adults, and children, which may be used individually or as a package. All are bilingual and copyright free"
Nutrition News Focus: Free daily newsletter written by a Professor of Nutrition which deals in a no-nonsense orthodox way with the various controversial and other nutrition issues that come up in research and the media.
Nutrition Source: Harvard School of Public Health Dept of Nutrition: Excellent resource with simple, colourful explanations of various nutrients, foods and healthy eating issues.
You Are What You Eat: A Guide to Good Nutrition: This is something special. Put together by students from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (in Virginia, USA), an enormous amount of work, ingenuity and programming flare has gone into producing a site offering resources to encourage healthy eating.
The site offers a profusion of tools on nutrient content, dietary analysis, food label information. It has basic nutrient information. It has calculators that allow you to work out your own nutrition profile and so doing calculates your individual RDVs. Uses Metric and Imperial units and activity level.

Ask NOAH: nutrition

Quite a good list of nutritional links, with an emphasis on lay information site. NOAH is New York Online Access to Health, a public health project to get information to disadvantaged groups. There is a good set of Spanish links as well.

Ask the Dietitian: Joanne Larsen

Joanne Larsen, a registered dietitian provides information on a large number of topics. People also email her with questions. This is a very popular site, which also has a healthy weight calculator.

The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating

From the Australian federal government Dpt Health, lay material with graphics, and a handbook for nutrition educators. "national and contemporary food guide for Australia which reflects the multicultural nature of the population and which is relevant for all sectors of the food system to use as a nutrition education and information tool"

Healthy Eating Club

An unusual concept, this is a club that one joins, the ideas behind it being guided by a leading nutrition expert (Prof.Mark Walhqvist), and features an array of sound lay nutrition information in various formats, including including a newsletter, quizes and games, a healthy eating course, and access to purchase book by Prof.Mark Wahlqvist.

Foodwatch

Lay nutrition site from popular Australian dietitian Catherine Saxelby. It has general nutrition articles on quite a long list of topics, a BMI calculator (metric units), information about her books and other people's books and food products, a 20 question health eating quiz (scored via interactive script) and some information on food labelling.

CSIRO (Australia): Nutrition Factsheets

Less than a dozen at present, but growing. mainly plain text and relatively brief. Also includes the CSIRO Human Nutrition 12345+ Food & Nutrition Plan poster .

CSIRO Human Nutrition 12345+ Food & Nutrition Plan

Graphic of the poster but otherwise only ordering information for the booklet.

Consumer Information Center (US Govt.): Catalog - Food & Nutrition

List of nutrition related pamphlets, with ordering information and many on-line. Lots of material on food labels.

Basics of Good Nutrition

Written by a physician, this is a whole series of small sections with lay information from a chapter of the Columbia University College of P & S Complete Home Medical Guide.

Dietitians of Canada

Very well constructed site with lay recipe and nutrition brochures, news and postition statements.

Eat for Life: The Food and Nutrition Board's Guide to Reducing Your Risk of Chronic Disease (1992)

From the National Academy of Sciences.

Food Allergy Network

Patient oriented, (funded by grant from Kraft). The Food Allergy Network "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). The organisation provides education, emotional support, and coping strategies".

Bowman Gray School Medicine: Nutrition Center

Very innovative, interactive web site from this nutrition research oriented medical institution, features fast food menu macronutrient calculators, fitness and eating disorder quizes, slide show, links to other nutrition sites and calorie calculator.

Canadian Health Network (Réseau Canadien de la santé)

In English and French versions, this site has lay and research information under various health categories, including nutrition as one of the topics you can search under. You can also search under population group, type of resource etc.

Eating Smart

From the Shapeup America! web site, a very good section on general healthy eating.

European Food Information Council (EUFIC)

Non-profit organisation supported by food companies to work with press, health educators and public on food issues. Web site has information on biotech, food safety and a newsletter Food Today, as well as a search engine. There are also some nutrition information on obesity and highligihts of commissioned research on children's views of diet and health. The information is also provided in Spanish, French, Italian and German.

Family Food Zone

Nicely put together family-oriented healthy eating site, developed by women who "represent nutrition education organizations from around the country that are regional affiliates of the National Dairy Council". The site aims to `assist moms' with cooking and shopping hints, as well as a Q&A section which allows visitors to quiz dietitians etc, general healthy eating, with some dairy focus.

Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition Center: 5-a-day

Colourful lay education program to encourage greater fruit and vegetable consumption. Healthy eating and nutritional content of a range of fruits and vegetables (macronutrients + vitamins A/C, Ca/iron, Na/K+).

Healthy Food Magazine, Munch'n Crunch

Irish Health Information Magazine OnLine, from Health Promotion Unit of Irish Department of Health. First issues has lay-oriented information on healthy diet, quiz on `your child's diet'. Well laid out and colourful.

Healthnet

European health site with nice graphics attached to simple general dietary advice, mostly with a UK flavour.

International Food Information Council brochures

Lots of material here for lay public from this major food industry educational site on food and food safety, as well as information for health and school educators. Has leaflets on general healthy eating, food allergy, additives, food labels etc., which includes some nice, colourful material in Acrobat format.

Internet Public Library

Health and nutrition, not particularly nutrition.

Nebraska Extension Publications

There really is an extensive collection here, and although some of the translation from printed to web versions may have been a bit rough, it is a very good resource to turn to.

Nutrition Central

A site from Virginia Tech dedicated to providing links "for parents and educators to locate food and nutrition education resources for preschoolers". Has lots of lay material on the food pyramid.

Nutrition Guide for Men

Some public health facts and general information on healthy eating from Univ.of Nebraska (Lincoln) Extension

NutriNews

Series of articles on subjects like sports nutrition, vegetarianism, healthy eating, weight management etc. written for the public by the dietitian at a medical clinic.

NutriSite!

Project by Canadian dietitian Carlota Basualdo-Hammond to construct an entire cybersite for the lay public, offering nutrition information for healthy eating. At present it has some basic nutrition information content for a number of fruits, information on sports nutirtion, Canadian dietary guidelines and links to calorie calculators and a few links to other nutrition sites. The plan are ambitious however, so the site is well worth checking back on.

Nutrition bulletin board: Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Lay information sheets in English from the Department of Food & Nutrition at the Veterans General Hospital in Taipei. Topics include:

Weight Control Diet,
What is a Balanced Diet
Diet for Diabetes Mellitus Patients
How Much Energy Do You Need?
How To Reduce Calorie Intake?
Seven Methods to Reduce Calorie Intake
Nutrition for Pregnant Women
Nutrition for Lactating Mothers
Dietary Recommendations for Children
Dietary Recommendations for Teenagers
Nutrition for the Elderly
Food Exchange List
Low Fat, Low Cholesterol Diet
Osteoporosis Prevention Diet.

Ohioline - Ohio State University Extension Service

Lots of factsheets in the areas of food, food safety, healthy eating. Includes sections for children, women, pregnancy etc. Also has news section, search engine and an Extension bulletin with a more agricultural flavour.

Western Australia Public Health Services lay leaflets

`On paper' a very extensive list of both technical and lay leaflets on public health, including some on food and nutrition. But when we visited the links to the resources were broken.

Shape Up America!

Lots of great, colourful (even a little interactive) material on weight and fitness education, including healthy eating. The site is the web presence of a public health initiative of the Koop Foundation, a non-profit corporation. Headed by C. Everett Koop, M.D., the former Surgeon General of the United States.

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Commercial general lay sites

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Nutrient Information: American Society for Nutr Sciences: Summaries of the biochemistry, food sources and clinical aspects of a wide range of nutrients each written by an invited expert by the American Society for Nutritional Sciences

The Daily Apple

Lay news articles in a nicely laid out format with a lifestyle and nutrition section. Where relevant the research article source is cited.

Eatingwell On-line

From the publishers of Elle, this is the on-line version of their Eating Well printed magazine. Articles on healthy lifestyle as well as the expected recipes and cooking focus. There is a specific nutrition section with calorie and fat calculators, basic nutrition information, advice from a dietitian.

N U T R I T I O N . C O M

Someone had to have this domain! Lay site on healthy diet, fitness and lifestyle> it features a free email update service.

Campbell's Kitchen

Part of Cambell Soup's web site, which is mainly product focussed, this part has recipes. The specifically nutrition section has an issues feature written by one of their dietitians, reference guide on food labels and dietary guidelines, "ask the nutritionist" feature (which offers only an email form, no answers on-line) and nutrition information for their products. The content of these features makes use of links to other outside nutrition resources.

Fresh Starts: BASF

From BASF, resources related to antioxidants, including lesson plans and student activities.

Health & Nutrition Breakthroughs Magazine

Lay magazine from New Hope Media with on-line full text content.

InteliHealth - Nutrition

Commericalised site for Johns Hopkins Health Information: news and lay articles.

No Bones About It! Drink Milk for Calcium!

From the Dairy Council Mid East, material for teachers and kids to promote the value of milk and the importance of calcium.

NutrAnalysis

Commercial nutrition analysis web site which has some general, referenced nutrition information articles with a focus on micronutrient deficiency.

Pritikin Longevity Center

Partly a commercial site advertising their books and hotel etc., but also nutrition content, such as a bibliography on nutriion in cardiovascular disease, diabetes etc, some recipes, help in finding Pritikin-sympathetic physicians etc.

Vita-Web

Roche lay vitamin information site.

Woolworths

Dietary advice, cooking tips and recipes from nutritionist Rosemary Stanton, information on food ingredients, food additives and meal planning.

4 Health Rx

Lay, nutrition information from a high fibre and pro-supplement perspective, from a distributor of a commercial supplement line of products.

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