APPLIED NUTRITION

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Dietitians, dietetics
Education issues
Extension nutrition
General nutrition topics
Iron status
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Patient/lay information
Public health
Research
School nutrition
Software, multimedia
Vegetarian, alternative, other

CLINICAL NUTRITION

For family physicians
Nutrition-related diseases
Risk groups
Deficiency & supplmnts.
Iron status disorders
Nutrition assessment
Special diets
Sports Nutrition
Surgical/parenteral
Nutritional toxicology
Vitamins & minerals
Other clinical nutrition

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Clinical nutrition for the family physician
Clinical nutrition in family practice
A series of articles for family physician taken from an Australian medical publication. A new topic every month:
Nutrition and family medicine
What do we know about nutrition and the practice of family physicians? This review article looks at the Australian situation, but the information is relevant to any Western country.
ABC Radio Health Reports
Transcripts from this excellent radio series from Australia. A number of interesting nutrition issues are addressed, often in interviews with researchers involved in the area. Some examples:
Chromium Information Bureau
Abstracts, news etc. on chromium in diabetes.
DIABETIC mailing list
Unmoderated diabetes support mailing list with access to FAQ and links related to diet in diabetes.
Diabetic exchange: news article
News article by a dietitian dated 3/96, haa lot of information on the new less rigid approach to CHO exchange in diabetes.
Food links for children with diabetes
Good list of annotated links, as part of a larger and very helpful lay site on kids with diabetes.
Glycaemic index article
Plain text article from a diabetes resource housed at Lehigh University. The article has a table with GI values for lots of specific foods and referenced . Authors credentials not indicated, but the material seems pretty good.
Diabetes Care journal
Small number of selected articles in issues since 1995. Html with full tables as well as Acrobat format available, but no search engine.

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Food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease etc.
Food allergy for the family physician
Regular clinical nutrition series by Dr.Tony Helman.
FDA pamphlet on food allergy
Plain text relatively conservative material on food allergy from the FDA consumer magazine.
Food Allergy Network
Patient oriented, (funded by grant from Kraft). "The Food Allergy Network (FAN) 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). FAN provides education, emotional support, and coping strategies".
Environmental and Preventive Health Center of Atlanta
Series of short articles probably written for patients of this environmental/allergy medical clinic. The nutrition material is generally of a somewhat alternative bent (candida, chronic fatigue, mercury poisoning etc).
Food Allergy Center: Environmed Research Inc.
Home page for a commercial environmental medicine nutrition centre in the US. Their site gives access to lots of detailed material on their approach to food allergy.
Celiac Disease, gluten intolerance: Don Wiss' list of web sites
A very long and detailed list of web resources, divided into sections and with commentary.
Scott's Celiac Disease Help Page
One lay guy's personal experience, but also lots of links.
Gluten-free and wheat-free diets
For patients.
Celiac disease and mental health
Dr. Kalle Reichelt (Pediatric Research Institute Oslo, Norway) "has been researching the impact of gluten intolerance on certain individuals with developmental delays. Most of the material in this collection is from a celiac mailing list. Some of the views exchanged on this mailing list may be controversial to some nutritionists.
Lactose Intolerance Page
Lay site with information on cooking without lactose, lactose-free products, links to other Internet sites etc.
NIH lay document on lactose intolerance
Informative and quite detailed with some tables and graphics.
The No Milk Page
Perhaps the best listing of Internet sites on this subject, set out in an explanatory, annotated way.
Scott's Taggart's Lactose Intolerance Paper
Plain text lay explanation of the problem with some references. The authors appear to be from a Home Economics Department, and the document written in 1989.

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GIT disorders
Nutrition in IBS: clinical perspective
Part of Cyberrounds. You can't go to the case until you have registered at the main site.
Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Current table of contents, but no text content.
Advances in Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Nutrition
Current table of contents, but no text content.
The Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
Content and abstracts from 1995.

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HIV and nutrition

HIV nutrition for health professionals
American Dietetic Association position statement
American Dietetic Association's position on nutrition intervention in the care of persons with HIV. Detailed in scope and extensively referenced. Required reading. Part of a larger collection of HIV resources, including a list of reading material.

Nutrition, Immunity, and AIDS: medical lecture notes
Lecture notes for physicians from Medical College of Georgia, Very succinct summary.
Impact of HIV Infection and AIDS upon Nutritional Status: lecture by Dr.Donald Kotler
Plain text transcript of medical lecture given by Dr. Donald Kotler (Columbia University and the St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Centre in New York), in Sydney in Australia on March 27 1995.
Vit.B12 and HIV progression: research article
Research article published in FASEB journal.

HIV: Lay and patient information
ADA: Nutrition Fact Sheet HIV/AIDS
Practical and orthodox advice.
CDC: FAQs on HIV/AIDS and Nutrition
Simple lay information from the Centres for Disease Control.
HIVpositive
Lots of good material, including a whole section on nutrition in paediatric HIV infection and a search engine.
Interview with a nurse
Krisitin Weaver is a nurse who works in San Francisco. She outlines her approach in this interesting transcript, which is quite balanced and practical.
North America: On-line Resources on AIDS and Nutrition
Links on food and meal programs in North America relevant to AIDS and nutrition from The Momentum AIDS Project :"Food and Family for people living with HIV".
Nutrition and HIV: Your choices make a difference
Detailed hyperlinked but plain text lay oriented material from Peggy Wickwire, dietitian with the Tennessee Department of Health AIDS Program. Very practical and orthodox, well worth reading.
Paediatric HIV Nutrition
Very important material on paediatric HIV and nutrition from dietitian Melissa Zafonte, Clinical Research Dietitian, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health. Part of the HIVPOSITIVE site.
Wasting in HIV and nutrition
Plain text lay explanation of nutritional issues of HIV from San Francisco Project Inform (1995). Another document from this source is on nutrition and weight loss
Wasting in HIV: Nutrition Support
Notes from a dietitian who works in San Francisco with HIV.
God's Love We Deliver
Eating tips, modified meals and recipes.
Course for teenagers on HIV nutrition
Part of an educational package for high risk teenagerse and those with HIV, this is the nutrition component. Well thought out, uses frames and has interesting graphics.
ACTUP: nutrition supplements
A summary documentation of the alternative approach to nutrition and AIDS from ACTUP. Gives details of individual products, including manufacturer and contacts. Whilst there are some references in the introductory paragraphs about nutrition and AIDS, there are none at all in the detailed sections specific nutrients and products.
Solgar Nutrition: supplements in HIV
Article by a dietitian taking taking a pro-supplement position, reproduced from Vitamin Retailer magazine and appearing on the site of a vitamin supplement company. Not referenced.
Women, HIV And Nutrition
Brief article on supplements for HIV women: someone's personal lay perspective,

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Weight and eating disorders

Weight disorders
Family practice: weighing your patient
Guide for the family physician.
Australasian Society for Study of Obesity
Information on the Society and some information on obesity issues, including a list of literature references and the Society's position statement on very low calorie diets.
American Dietetic Association position paper on Weight Management
Adopted October 1996. Detailed with references.
Dr.Ben Krentzman on obesity
Private page with obesity links and textual advice, menus, private list of US doctors interested in this area and lots of other links.
Desirable weight table (American Heart Foundation)
Traditional approach of height and weight tables.
Don's Diet & Weight Loss / Fitness Page
Weight management links: seems to take a fairly balanced approach in his selection. Well worth a look, particularly to get a picture of the lay perspective on this extremely popular Internet subject.
FAQ about Health and Fat People
Long plain text FAQ from and containing information about various mailing list support groups for overweight people. As you might expect the tenor of the material is supportive rather than gloomy, although realistic about adverse consequences as well. Good lay resource.
International No Diet Day
Resources, contact information, history of this anti-dieting, large-people's rights movement, focussed on its `day' on May 6th.
NIH conference Consensus Statement on Obesity
Statement on health effects of obesity from National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference (1984).
Primary care Teaching Module on Obesity and Weight Loss
Lengthy plain text teaching material by Dr. Robert Baron, UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine.
Serotonin and Eating Disorders
Pharmacological review article from Medical Sciences Bulletin on the use of serotonin reuptake inhibitors for weight loss.
Shape Up America!
Very useful site. "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. Launched in December 1994 to combat the rising rates of obesity in America." This site is a very well constructed and illustrated one focussing on healthy diet and exercise. It has a healteh professional `library' with a lengthy Guidance Document on the Treatment of Adult Obesity, lots of lay educational material on-line, sections which allow the visitor to calculate their own BMI, to assess their fitness level,and to find out about different types of physical activity. There are also press releases. .
US national overweight statistics
From the National Center for Health Statistics, tables showing US national values in relation to prevalence of overweight, broken down by sex, age, race, and Hispanic origin. Shows comparative figures over four 4-5 year periods from 1960 to 1991.
Weight Watchers
Contact information for local chapters, news and on-line forum, nutrition facts and eating plans, nutrition facts, interactive quiz.
"The Zone" (popular lay book)
Sites related to a popular `best-seller' on weight control called The Zone includes an applet to calculate your body fat, as well as a FAQ section and more.

Eating disorders

Alliance to Fight Eating Disorders
"All-volunteer organization comprised of individuals who are fighting or have fought an eating disorder, their family members and friends, and professionals committed to assisting these 'experts' in their fight. " The site has a good FAQ, particularly including material for relatives of people with eating disorders.
American Dietetic Association position paper on Eating Disorders
Long and detailed paper with references.
Cath's Eating Disorders Resources
Lay and professional links.
Eating disorders information
NIH Publication, plain text .
Research abstracts on treatment of Anorexia Nervosa
A collection of literature abstracts, with no obvious organising principle.

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Vitamins & minerals

 Note : much of the material on this subject is contained within the sites listed in the sections on Deficiency & supplementation and nutritional toxicology below.

Vitamins and Coenzymes
Biochemically oriented notes from Dpt.Biochemistry at Indiana State University on vitamins and minerals and their functions.
Murdoch University, W.Australia.: course on basic nutrition for vets
Hyperlinked on-line course material on the biochemistry and clinical uses of vitamins and minerals in veterinary medicine, but most of it is also relevant to humans.

Nutrition assessment
Medicine and Surgery Nutrition Assessment Write-Up Guidelines
Checklist for assessing nutritional status, as used for Univ.of Penns. clinical nutrition course.
TEKTRAN: literature search on Nutritional Status Assessment
A completely unorganised and unannotated set of research papers more on animal than human nutrition studies, produced by NALUSDA's TEKTRAN agricultural research search service.
Prof. Ed Frielander's path lecture notes on nutritional disease
The inimitable Prof.Frielander offers turns his down-to-earth approach to pathological diagnosis onto the subject of nutritional disease, vitamin supplementation etc.

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