Online Resources
The web site of The ADA provides a myriad of information and links regarding nutrition and the profession of dietetics. It provides information and position stands on nutrition and performance, weight management, and eating disorders. Learn what a Registered Dietitian is and what MNT stands for. Click here to become a member.
Dietary guidelines for cancer prevention and more. Search in information for professionals.
American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
A wide array of resource topics on women's health issues including pregnancy. Search on the word nutrition for current articles and topics.
This is the site of the American Diabetes Association. There is information on diabetes for professionals and the public with a link to the relationship with heart disease.
This site is dedicated to providing information regarding heart disease and stroke. The recently revised AHA Dietary Guidelines are presented.
ASPEN - American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
This Association includes members from several health care disciplines including physicians, nurses, dietitians, and pharmacists. Certification in this specialty is available for each discipline.
Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator
This National Institutes of Health site offers information on healthy weights, a BMI calculator, and BMI tables.
The Food and Nutrition Information Center giving tables of the Dietary Reference Intakes and versions of the Recommended Dietary Allowances.
Food and Nutrition Information Center
This website provides access to printable copies of the Dietary Guidelines, Food Guide Pyramid, and evaluation of Dietary Supplements
The web site of the latest growth charts. Learn how to interpret a BMI for a child.
The USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion Interactive Healthy Eating Index site. An online dietary assessment tool that includes nutrition messages and links to nutrient information.
Website that has a description of the Healthy People initiative and links to the objectives for Healthy People 2010. On the home page, click on About Healthy People to access general information on the program. Then scroll down to - For More Information: Full Text of Second Edition and click on it to open the link. Then click on Volume II Objectives Part B. You will find Nutrition and Obesity objectives in Chapter 19 and Physical Activity objectives in Chapter 22.
Interactive Healthy Eating Index
USDA's Interactive Health Eating Index lets you complete a diet analysis comparing your intake with the Food Guide Pyramid and the RDAs. Also provides a Healthy Eating Index score.
Consumer information and links to resources for preventing and treating disordered eating.
National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute, NIH
The web site of the National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Several issues are discussed regarding cardiovascular disease, blood diseases, and respiratory disease along with guidelines for prevention.
K/DOQI Guidelines and much more on renal disease.
See press release for the new recommendations for CHO, Protein, Fat and Exercise. Once you get to the web site, you'll need to search on DRI to get the links to the various DRI publications.
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements
Features an office profile, definition of supplements plus news and events. Provides a supplement reference database and list of publications.
Nutrition Screening Initiative
Nutrition Screening Initiative. Click on 'about NSI', then on Patient Education, then on Determine your Nutrition Health Checklist.
Nutrition Screening and Assessment
On the Registered Nurse web site, great description of nutrition screening and nutrition assessment. You'll like the whole web site.
Obesity and Clinical Guidelines
The National Institutes of Health site with guidelines for prevention and treatment of obesity and overweight.
Website of the National Library of Medicine that allows public access to abstracts printed in all professional scientific and medical journals
Defines supplements and discusses the effects of using herbs and hormones with an index of related articles and warnings of misleading ads.
Sports and Cardiovascular Nutritionists (SCAN)
Information site for the Sports and Cardiovascular Nutritionists Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association
The fifth edition of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines published by the USDA in May of 2000. This pdf file requires Acrobat to download and takes a few minutes but it's worth the wait.
Learn how to navigate around this helpful site. This site provides explanations of several disease states and health conditions along with medication and treatment information.