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Pick of the bunch   We don't wish to blow our own trumpet, but it might be useful in comparing our coverage with the ones listed below, to know that our site has around 4,000 links. This makes us the world's most comprehensie nutrition portal site (i.e. one that links you to other web sites). We get between 45-50,000 individual visitors each month. Nutrition Navigator: Tufts University Probably the most popular and frequently cited portal site on the Internet. Produced under the auspices of Nutrition department of Tufts University, it aims to give an independent guide to the best of what is out there on the Internet in the field of nutrition. The entries are broken down into categories (such as lay vs health professional, journalism, paediatric etc.), with each section having a manageable number of annotated entries, each of which has been given a score. There is also a very brief FAQ section and some quizes. It is hard to be sure exactly how many sites are listed here, as many sites appear multiple times under various categories. We estimate there may be around 300 in all. We were impressed by the absence of dead links when we checked a sample of the sites. This site is well worth a visit if you are after some guidance on just the main web sites in nutrition. It is not particularly focussed on health professional resources, although it has a section for that. The rest of the web portal sites are in alphabetical rather than merit order: CSIRO: Dpt. Food Science and Technology A long list of nutrition resources, with some descriptions. Particularly strong on food science, including university food science departments, food law and safety, the food industry, and a useful resource for Australian food sites. About 250 food and nutrition sites listed, with around 11% of the links no longer working when we last checked.. Food and Nutrition Information Center (USDA) Food and Nutrition Topics from A to Z An excellent and long list, well categorised, but not annotated. There are more than 70 topics under which sites are listed, and a total of over 1,700 links. We are not sure how many unique links are included, as no doubt there are repetitions. But it is a very thorough collection indeed. Even better, when we checked less than 3% of those links were broken. INFOMINE: Nutrition listings Data base driven off a search engine, this produces a reasonably long but very well annotated list of Internet nutrition resources. There are over 250 listings for nutrition and over 570 for food. Around 6% of links were broken when we tested. INFOMINE is an academic data base put together by college and university librarians. This independence is one of its strengths, and the descriptions and classification system is, as you might expect, detailed. It has a sophisticated seaerch engine and the collected has plenty of biological, agricultural and medical resources. HealthWeb : Nutrition A collaborative effort between various health science libraries. Good set of lists of annotated links, under various categories. There are just over 200 links, with a very low level of broken links (3% when we checked). 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.

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Blonz Guide

The author does a lot of lay nutrition writing in the US. This is a moderate, mixed collection of food, nutrition, and more general health and medical links. Because links are listed in more than one category, we could only estimate that a little under 200 food and nutrition links are provided. When we last checked, around 9% were broken. The author has made some effort to make the site visually interesting. The links do not have commentary. There is an excellent search engine collection.

 

Laurie Wadsworth's list

Quite a long list (just over 300 entries), in categories but not annotated, has focus on Canadian sites. When last checked around 12% were broken.

Martindale: nutrition resources

Large collection of links with brief descriptions of content. Very good in some areas, and he seems to specialise in finding some out-of-the-way unusual web sites, as well as having categories that are not found in most other lists, such as calculators, on-line courses and dictionaries. Nutrition topics include nutrition courses, university departments, dictionaries and multi-media.

The organisation of this material is by topic, and is somewhat unusual in the way it is laid out. One quirk is that the nutrition sections turn out in many cases to have a lot of general medical and scientific links which are not really specifically nutritional. (For example, he has a special `calculators' section with a claim of over 17,000 calculators included, but the large majority are not related to nutrition).

For all these reasons it is hard to estimate the number of nutrition links provided, but we estimate around 300-400. One very positive feature of this site is that a very high proportion of the links that we checked worked, which means a lot of effort must go into keeping them up to date.

Yahoo

Yahoo is one of the main searchable general content Internet directories in the world, but it is not particularly strong on nutrition.

LookSmart

Look under Science and Health and drill down to Nutrition for a reasonable selection of sites under various categories, with site descriptions.

About.com: nutrition

Formerly known as the Mining.com site, this site has plenty of nutrition categories, but there are only a moderate number of annotated links for each, and a significant number of `sponsored' links, i.e. that have paid for their listing priority.

 

 

 

Achoo

Reasonable number of categories but not so many listings in this health oriented search site, each entry has short description.

Pick of the crop Food Science Australia: food science list Comprehensive listing under finely detailed categories. Each link has a brief description. INFOMINE: Nutrition listings Reasonably long and well annotated list of Internet nutrition resources from INFOMINE, an academic data base put together by college and university librarians. This independence is one of its strengths, and the descriptions and classification system is, as you might expect, detailed. It has a sophisticated seaerch engine and the collected has plenty of biological, agricultural and medical resources. HealthWeb : Nutrition A collaborative effort between various health science libraries. Good set of lists of annotated links, under various categories.

Arizona Health Sciences Library

This resource can be approached from various angles. One way is through a list of web links Their nutrition guide has resources listed by subject and by media type. Another is through the tabbed resource categories at the top, then find nutrition in each case. Whether you will be able to access the resources varies in each case, as the focus (e.g. for journals) is on library access systems that are available only to library members.

British Dietitians Association

Good list of unannotated links, in categories.

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."

Dairy Australia

Links to Internet dairy resources in a wide variety of aspects, including research. This web site includes material from the now-merged organisation the Dairy Research and Development Corporation.

Giessen University list

In German.

HealthWeb : Nutrition

A collaborative effort between various health science libraries. Good set of lists of annotated links, under various categories.

INFOMINE: Nutrition listings

Reasonably long and well annotated list of Internet nutrition resources from INFOMINE, an academic data base put together by college and university librarians. This independence is one of its strengths, and the descriptions and classification system is, as you might expect, detailed. It has a sophisticated seaerch engine and the collected has plenty of biological, agricultural and medical resources.

Kansas State Extension list

Classified into lifespan cycle,clinical, exercise, vegetarianism, nutrient profiles etc.

MedWeb: Nutrition

Categorised into guides, sites, data bases, with moderate set of urls for each.

University of Minnesota: sites of interest

Modest set of links.

Food and Nutrition Information Center (USDA) Food and Nutrition Topics from A to Z

An excellent and long list, well categorised, but not annotated

Oregon University Nutrition Resources

Moderately length list of web sites, with some annotation. Particularly strong on commercial food companies.

St.Joseph's University: list of nutrition resources

Short list only.

The Unit for Preventive Nutrition's Internet Guide

Moderate set of links under 9 categories, with the advantage of being annotated and rated.

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Pick of the crop We have not chosen a site in this category.

Oregon University Nutrition Resources

Moderately length list of web sites, with some annotation, but particular strong point is commercial food companies.

Dietetics Online

From the Dietitian On-Line AOL forum home page, some selective and useful links to professional. international and computer software nutrition resources. Not annotated.

Internet for Dietitians

Dietitian Claudia Dow put this list together for a course on Internet for dietitians, and it remains quite a useful collection of links, although not large and most items are not annotated.

Committe for World Health

Modest set of unannotated links from a non-profit, orthomolecular-oriented foundation.

CYC's Nutrition in Southern Illinois Homepage

Dietitian Cynthia York-Camden's web site is good, with lots of links mainly for resources of relevance to dietitians. The links come in two flavours: her private bookmark file (annotated) and a public viewing section (not annotated).

Nerd World : NUTRITION

Part of a much larger Internet directory. The nutrition section has a reasonably long list in alphabetical order but it is not clear what logic went into the choice and whilst annotated, the descriptions appear to be self generated (e.g. aka Alta Vista).

Nutrition links - WAIS search :

Someone (from New Jersey) has done a broad nutrition WAIS search and these are the results! Turns out to be an interesting, eclectic but rather unorganised list of resources without annotation. A number are no longer reachable either.

 

Nutri Link!

Dietetic student has set up a site to encourage participation from others to put up: "stories, columns and pictures via e-mail. These pages will be updated once per month. Selected contributions will be published on this site."

Welltech: Nutrition links

Small but annotated list.

Nutrición Humana

A good set of links and resources relevant to Mexico, categorised by the type of Internet source that the material comes from (web pages, FTP, news groups etc). Within categories, items are offered in alphabetical order without commentary. It helps if you can understand Spanish, as this is the language in which it is written!

University of Akron's list of nutrition sites

Moderate number of nutrition resources listed under "academic", "governement.." etc.

IFIS Food and Nutrition Internet Index

For $100/year, you get full access to: "a searchable Web site describing and indexing food and nutrition resources available on the Internet." The main focus is on food science and food technology.

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