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Pick of the crop American Dietietic Association: Child Nutrition and Health Program Lots of colourful resources in this section of the ADA's web site. These include a Food Pyramid for Children, games to play. There are associated press statements and kits, as well as resources for health professionals.

Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating for preschoolers: Background for Educators and Communicators

A series of fact sheets that provides background information for nutrition professionals, health educators, home economists and others involved in promoting healthy eating.

Child and Family Canada - Nutrition

A non-profit collaboration of 33 non-profit organizations "committed to the health and well-being of children and their families", the site includes a nutrition section with lay information on subjects such as healthy eating, folic acid, hunger in the classroom, and low income nutritional issues, many of which come from the Canadian National Insitute of Nutrition

Dairy Food in Infant Nutrition

From Australian Dairy Corporation, simple plain text advice.

Earth's Best Baby Food: Ask the Nutritionist

An organic baby food manufacturer in Colorado supplies this service to ask questions of a nutritionist (name and credentials not specified) and this web page has a very long set of past answers on-line. The answers seem eminently sensible and balanced.

FDA/CFSAN Good Nutrition for the Highchair Set

Lay article written in 1985 (and revised 1992) about feeding young infants. A plain text document but with some good advice.

Eat well live well for kids

Part of a general healthy eating site, has kids games, dietary pyramid, food and nutrition dictionary, a quiz etc.

Taming Fussy Eaters

Plain text tips for fussy eaters from Australian dietitian Catherine Saxelby.

Heinz Infant & Toddler Nutrition

Lay information on toddler and child nutrition, mixed with commercial product promotion.

International Food Information Council (IFIC): Child/Adolescent Nutrition & Health materials

Various lay leaflets on maternal, paediatric and adolescent nutrition.

Infant Feeding Action Coalition (Canada)

Pro-breast feeding organisation. The site contains lay-oriented resources, links and some more `political' elements (formula company boycottetc).

Healthy Ideas

Web site 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)

Kids Food CyberClub

Kids Food Cyberclub is put together by the Connecticut Association for Human Services (with funding from Kaiser Permanente). It has sections for teachers, children and parents on health eating.

La Leche League

The La Leche League International is "an international, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization dedicated to providing education, information, support, and encouragement to women who want to breastfeed." This site has information on the organisation and local chapters, FAQs, and a search engine.

Australian Breastfeeding Association leaflets

Short, plain-text, lay information sheets on breast feeding.

Nutrition for Children: Connie Evers

Connie Evers is a dietitian who specialises in teaching nutrition to kids. This web site offers some weekly tips and a newsletter with some material of interest to those who teach children nutrition, and there is a free email version. There is an "Ask Connie" section, but this simply allows you to send the author an email. The rest of the site is mainly a calling card for the author's book and related PR activites.

Nutrition Guide: Children's Hospital , Wisconsin

Lay information on nutrition in the various age groups from birth to teenagers.

Tiny Tummies Online

This is the web page for a printed newsletter put out by a dietitian. Its stated purpose is "a monthly food and nutrition newsletter for families that makes feeding children easy and fun." The site has a nice colourful home page and some substantive material, as well as a chance to send in questions to the editor, a table of contents from the latest issues etc. However, mostly the material is about the contents of the newsletter rather than the contents themselves.

Babybag: Feeding & Nutrition articles

Lay site on pregnancy and motherhood, with articles on folate, healthy eating, nutritional content of baby foods etc.

Online Birth Centre: Nutrition and Pregnancy

Good collection of links on nutriion in pregnancy, with a generally lay perspective. Includes material on vegetarianism in pregnancy.

IFIC: Healthy Eating During Pregnancy

Colourful lay pamphlet from International Food Information Council (co-sponsored by "March of Dimes Foundation").

Iron deficiency in Pregnancy: University of Singapore (Cybermed)

Note form clinical material.

NutriGenie - pregnancy nutrition software

Download evaluation copy of software that analyses amother's diet.

Babybag: Feeding & Nutrition articles

Lay site on pregnancy and motherhood, with articles on folate, healthy eating, nutritional content of baby foods etc.

FDA/CFSAN Folic Acid Fact Sheet

Folic Acid in pregnancy: guidelines

From Wisconsin, quoting CDC guidelines.

La Leche League

The La Leche League International is "an international, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization dedicated to providing education, information, support, and encouragement to women who want to breastfeed." This site has information on the organisation and local chapters, FAQs, and a search engine.

Healthy Ideas

Web site 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)

Nutrition in women's health

FDA/CFSAN. Articles on weight loss, dietary supplements, nutrition for women at different ages, food preparation, nutrition for specific conditions (e.g. osteoporosis, diabetes etc).

Osteoporosis Studies: CDC

Lay outline of some work they have been invovled in and general information on the subject.

Women's Health Interactive

Very nicely designed site (based on frames) with on-line nutrition symposium and interactive nutrition quiz focussed on a healthy diet for preventing heart disease. The quiz provides an automated scored response and educational material relevant to the topic.

Women's Nutrition Books

Listing of books supposedly relevant to women's nutrition in this general and profesional OB-GYN resource site. Some books have brief descriptions available andall have ordering information from Amazon Books. Many are popular or alternative nutrition flavour.

Eating Hints for Cancer Patients

From the NIH National Cancer Institute, lay advice in some detail in this hyperlinked illustrated document.

HCF Nutrition Foundation

Non-profit organisation based on the work of Dr.James Anderson, the web site has resources and links related to healthy eating, but particularly to the role of phytoestrogens and soy.

Low Carb Mailing Lists

Information on mailing lists.

Low fat nutrition resources

From Mimi's kitchen, quite an impressive list of links to low fat recipes and nutrition resources.

Metabolink

Lay health advice site on nutrition and other metabolic issues, such as diabetes.

20 Power Foods for Women

Lay information on good foods for women to eat, for example because they are rich in iron.

Dairy Australia

Mainly industry information and catalogue of nutrition resources, rather than the resources themselves, but there are some on-line leaflets related to dairy re;evant topics and recipes. Also some cute cartoon illustrations featuring cows!

Dairy Farmers of Ontario

Lay information on dairy related issues, such as `milk allergy', role of calcium etc.

British Meat On-Line

Lay and health professional nutrition information.

FitnessOnline Nutrition

General lay fitness site, it has lay information on healthy eating, plus some calculators on energy expenditure, BMI etc .

Food For Health

Commercial newsletter with nutrition education ideas and resources, particularly focussed on food and recipes. The web site has some content from the newsletter, and urls linking to useful sites related to each month's content.

HealthAnswers: Nutrition

Part of a commercial lay `virtual health centre'. The approach is to showcase material provided by "content partners". In this case it means lay information on nutrition and health from sponsor Ross Laboratories, news from Reuters Health and their own resources.

The Leafy Greens Council

Lay material on general healthy eating particularly in relation to leafy green vegetables

Kellogg Nutrition Website

Simple lay information on healthy eating, emphasising not surprisingly issues such as importance of breakfast and fibre.

McDonald's leaflet: Nutrition-a question of balance

This web site purports to offer a company view on the nutritional issues involved in McDonald's products, although this does not necessarily come from the company itself. The site includes a comparative nutrient analysis table at focused on macronutrients.

Nabisco's Tips for Healthy Living

Commercial site with general nutrition information and articles on the Dietary Guidelines, Food Guide Pyramid and Nutrition Facts panel found on food labels.

Quaker Oats

Lay oriented diet information with an expected focus on fibre and oats, including phytochemical issues and views on nutrition and cancer.

Tops Friendly Markets

Commercial site with some general lay nutrition information, recipes etc.

WellnessWeb Nutrition

Series of short articles generally by dietitians and therefore of orthodox nature.

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