Clinical nutrition, obstetric, parenteral nutrition, pediatric, sports medicine, women's health, geriatric nutrition, psychiatry

Adolescent nutrition

Geriatric nutrition

Obstetric and women's health nutrition

Paediatric nutrition

Psychiatry and mental health

Other risk groups

See also Sports nutrition

Sites for health professionals

Lay sites: obstetric

Lay sites: women's health

Professional obstetric and women's nutrition

CDC criteria for diagnosis of anemia in children and women

Current Trends CDC Criteria for anemia in children and childbearing-aged women. Written in 1989.

American Dietetic Association position paper on Women's health and nutrition.

Referenced position paper on broad issues of women's nutrition needs.

Nutrition During Pregnancy and Lactation: An Implementation Guide

National Academy of Sciences review paper

Nutrition Issues in Developing Countries:..Part II: Diet and Activity During Pregnancy and Lactation

Report from Subcommittee on Nutrition and Diarrheal Diseases Control of the Institute of Medicine.

Nutrition Services in Perinatal Care: Second Edition

National Academy of Sciences review paper.

Cornell Cooperative Extension -Nutrition for Women course

Course information and links to some resources.

Nutrition in pregnancy and breastfeeding: bibliography

From FNIC, a peer reviewed bibliography, with citations only, not abstracts.

HealthyStart National Resource Centre

Resources from the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health at Georgetown University.

Women's Health and Aging Study

From the National Institute on Aging of the NIH, this is a plain text report on-line (with tables and references) that includes information on body composition, haematological and biochemical nutrtiional status of elderly women in the USA.

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Sites for health professionals

Lay nutrition advice for sick children

Lay advice for healthy children

Professional paediatric nutrition

Pick of the crop ADA position statements on child and adolescent nutrition Plain text referenced position statements from the .American Dietetic Association. Other ADA position papers relevant to children are: Child and adolescent food and nutrition programs Nutrition services for children with special health needs Nutrition standards for child care programs School-based nutrition programs and services (in conjunction with the Society for Nutrition Education and the American School Food Service Association) School-based nutrition programs and services Canadian Pediatric Society: position papers. These include some position papers on a number of nutrition subjects, including breast feeding, therapeutic and other issues. These represent output of the Society's Nutrition Committee, and are well reasoned papers with lots of references. Dietary guidelines for children and adolescents: Australia This Dietary guidelines document is in Acrobat format. It comprises a set of scientific background papers for each guideline. National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health Affiliated with Georgetown University, it is "dedicated to improving the health of children and families through national leadership in three key areas: state-of-the-art knowledge, program development, and policy analysis and education." The web site has some very useful on-line nutrition publications in obstetrics and paediatrics in PDF format on subjects such as food safety for children, nutrition intervention effectiveness and breast feeding, organisation and bibliographic data bases and links to other sites.

ADA: Pediatric Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group

The ADA has a group in this area, but you need to be a member to access this part of their web site. There are also relevant ADA position statements.

Cochrane Neonatal Collaborative Review Group

From the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (part of the National Institutes of Health), a set of evidence-based medicine reviews on various paediatric topics. These include long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in neonates and enteral nutrition in premature babies on TPN.

CDC criteria for diagnosis of anemia in children and women

Current Trends CDC Criteria for anemia in children and childbearing-aged women. Written in 1989.

Health Canada: Infant Nutrition resources

From Health Canada, links, lay material and reports on a variety of topics.

Infant Nutrition

From Vanderbilt University, plain text notes for health professionals on infant feeding.

Canadian Pediatric Society: Meeting the Iron Needs of Infants and Young Children

A position paper from their Nutrition Committee dated 1991. Well reasoned paper with lots of references. Important reading.

 

Inpatient treatment of severely malnourished children.

This 148k Acrobat document comes from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: Human Nutrition Unit.

MCH Alert

Provides "weekly updates of news, recently released publications, new programs and initiatives, and conferences affecting the maternal and child health community." 

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.

Metablic disorders: Pedbase

Short lecture style notes on a large range of paediatric conditions, includes quite a few amino acid and other inherited metabolic disorders.

Obesity In Children

Article in the Internet Journal of Health Promotion reporting on a research project from Australia which aimed to demonstrate that simple intervention techniques can be an effective approach towards reducing the prevalence of obesity in children.

Parenteral Nutrition in neonates: teaching notes

From Ray Duncan, MD, Staff Neonatologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.

PEDINFO

Index of paediatric Internet resources for health professsionals.

Pedi-RD

"Pedi-RD is an e-mail mailing list for dietitians and other health care professionals interested in neonatal/perinatal and pediatric nutrition"

Pesticides in Baby Food

From the Environmental Working Group (a Washington based public interest organisation), a rather frightening assessment of the pesticide levels in baby foods, from a lay perspective, but referenced.

The Progress of Nations reports: UNICEF reports

Ranks natiions according to various health paramters, including a section based on nutrition and malnutrition indicators. There is also a 1995 report and a more general set of country health indicator profiles for a number of developing countries. These are important public health resources from the main UNICEF web site.

The Sick Child Initiative: Consideration of the Nutrition Components

Full text of the 1995 report of the Committee on International Nutrition, Food and Nutrition Board, Board on International Health, Institute Of Medicine. The Sick Child Initiative is a public health project to ensure proper paediatric care and assessment is available to children with common diseases such as measles, gatroenteritis etc,, particularly in Third World and poor loving environments. This report looks at the nutritional issues involved, and is very much a public health perspective as well as clinical.

Prevention Yellow Pages

"A worldwide directory of programs, research, references and resources dedicated to the prevention of youth problems and the promotion of nurturing children". There are some nutrition related documents.

Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth

DHSS report (in PDF format) with whole range of statistical data about children and teenagers, including tables on prevalence of overweight disorders.

USDA Child Nutrition Programs

Information from the USDA's Food and Consumer Service on the various government child nutrition programs (e.g. National School Lunch, The School Breakfast, the Special Milk , the Summer Food Service, and the Child and Adult Care Food Programs.

WHO Global Database on Child Growth

Description only of this data base: "a standardized compilation of anthropometric data from population-based nutritional surveys conducted around the world from 1960 onwards". Form for entering new data and also a link to an article derived from it on "The worldwide magnitude of protein-energy malnutrition".

World Bank: A New Agenda for Women's Health and Nutrition

Full text of report which "focuses on actions that can be taken by the health sector. It suggests essential clinical and public health interventions, discusses factors to be considered in program planning and implementation, and describes ways that assistance agencies can facilitate programs." Summary available also in French and Spanish.

Zinc in children

Useful information on zinc in children from a child health research project.

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Nutrition advice for sick children

For general healthy diet advice for children and infants, see: Lay information: paediatric section

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This is a collection of clinical nutrition links, such as high risk groups for nutritional disorder and nutritional deficiency, including obstetric, paediatric and pediatric, poverty and immigrants, Also sports nutrition , surgical and parenteral and enteral nutrition, tube feeding, nutritional toxicology, vitamin toxicity, overdose This is a collection of clinical nutrition links, such as high risk groups for nutritional disorder and nutritional deficiency, including obstetric, paediatric and pediatric, poverty and immigrants, Also sports nutrition , surgical and parenteral and enteral nutrition, tube feeding, nutritional toxicology, vitamin toxicity, overdose This is a collection of clinical nutrition links, such as high risk groups for nutritional disorder and nutritional deficiency, including obstetric, paediatric and pediatric, poverty and immigrants, Also sports nutrition , surgical and parenteral and enteral nutrition, tube feeding, nutritional toxicology, vitamin toxicity, overdose nutrition.