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APPLIED NUTRITION
Commercial
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Extension nutrition
General
nutrition topics
Iron status
Journals, newsletters, books
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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NUTRITION JOURNALS, MEDIA
Nutrition Journals
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Lists
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Main nutrition journals
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Other nutrition journals
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Other journals relevant to nutrition
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Ordering or author information only
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Alternative and vegetarian journals
- Nutrition news and newsletters
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Nutrition books, publishers
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Nutrition Software, pictures, multimedia
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Miscellaneous publication and media material
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Lists of nutrition journals
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Index Medicus: list of nutrition journals referenced
- A list of nutrition journals indexed in the Index Medicus and therefore to be found on Medline searching.
- Wallace
library (US): nutrition related journals
- "This guide includes all journals related to Nutrition
currently received by Wallace Library. Also included are indexing and abstracting
services available in the Library, which provide access to the journals."
Good range of journals, and broad notion of nutrition related (e.g. includes
Pediatrics and food industry journals).
- Arizona:
list of nutrition electronic journals
- Includes true ezines and web pages for printed journals.
Shortish list.
- Professional
Directories: nutrition links
- Useful set of nutrition journals. The organisation is
one that lists orthodox and some complementary therapists.
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Journals in the MRC Dunn Nutrition Centre library
- Although for in-house use, this turns out to be a pretty large list of nutrition relevant journals. However, it has no information on any journal's Internet presence.
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Main nutrition journals
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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Abstracts and table of contents of recent issues, calendar of international meetings in clinical nutrition. Some of the abstracts or editorials are in Adobe (.pdf) format.
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J of American Dietetic Association
- TOC plus few abstracts for two 1996 issues only, but apparently this page is still under construction.
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Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Abstracts from 1993-4 issues, but it may be a while before they put more current issues on-line.
- The British Journal of Nutrition
- Tables of Contents for 1995-6 on plus ordering information. Note that the journal is now published by CAB International, which has set up its own home page for the journal.
- The
Journal of Nutrition
- Journal of the American Institute of Nutrition. This
web page contains subscribing information, plus contents pages for the latest
issue.
- Nutrition Reviews: citations
- For a list of article citations, but not NOT the abstracts themselves. Have to search your way down selections from Current Contents to section where you can enter "Nutrition" in the journal title.
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Other Nutrition Journals
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Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism
- TOC for 1996 but without abstracts or search
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Appetite
- Table of contents and abstracts for 1995-7 from the Academic Press Library service.
- Australian
Journal of Nutrition & Dietetics
- Contents pages plus some articles from recent isues in
full text.
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Bibliotheca Nutritio et Dieta
- TOC for one issue only.
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Elsevier journals (with tables of contents)
- A large number of food science and some nutrition journals, for which contents from varying numbers of issues in 1996 are presently available. However, there are no abstracts. Whilst it does have a search engine, this also only returns the TOC without abstract and you cannot confine the search to a particular journal.
The journals with TOC are:
- Food Chemistry
- Food Quality and Preference
- Food Research International
- Food Science Package
- Food and Chemical Toxicology
- Food, Cosmetics and Drug Packaging
- International Dairy Journal
- International Journal of Food Microbiology
- Journal of Food Engineering
- Le Lait
- Meat Science
- Progress in Lipid Research
- Trends in Food Science & Technology
- Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
- Nutrition
- Nutrition Research
- Food Science and Technology
- Table of contents and abstracts for 1995-7 from the Academic Press Library service.
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Food Science and Technology Abstracts
- Abstracting service for journals in the food science and technology area. Available in printed, CD-ROM and soon via the Internet although this will probably be a subsciption only service.
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International Journal of Applied and Basic Nutritional Sciences
- Supposed to have TOC and some abstracts, but at present (1/97) the relevant files do not seem to be present.
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International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition
- Contents pages for 1996, plus information on editorial board, instructions for authors and ordering.
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Journal of Extension
- Searchable gopher site (searching under the keyword "nutrition"
revealed around 20 articles).
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Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
- Table of contents and abstracts for 1995-7 from the Academic Press service.
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Journal of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine
- Contents pages for 1996, plus information on editorial board, instructions for authors and ordering.
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Journal of
Nutritional Immunology
- Searchable index of selected abstracts and tables of contents from this journal form part of
the more general journal data base which constitutes this gopher based BUBL library Table Of Contents
service. Other journals whose articles are searchable from BUBL include:
J Nutrition for Elderly
J. Nutrition in Recipe & Menu
Development
Home Health Care Services Quarterly
J of Nutritional Immunology
J. Food Products Marketing; and
J of Applied Aquaculture (US)
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J Metabolism and Nutrition
- In Portugese, as this journal is edited in Brasil. The site contains publishing information, plus a table of contents for 1994-6 (no actual material though).
- Journal
of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
- Current table of contents, but no text content. Also at http://www.lrpub.com/april95/journals/0277-2116.html.
- Nutritional
Medicine
- At present very limited, as only allows retrieval
of abstracts from three 1995 issues and search engine across all issues.
Can also search other of their publications, but not too much nutrition
here. You pay for full text/graphics downloads.
- Nutrition
- International Journal of Applied and Basic Nutritional Sciences
- Table of contents and selected abstracts for current
and recent issues. Also at: http://www.infomall.org/nutrition/
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World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics
- TOC for two issues only, no abstracts.
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Nutrition Journals: ordering or author information only
- Advances in Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Nutrition
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The British Journal of Nutrition
- Ordering and author information.
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Die Nahrung
- German nutrition journal. Descriptive information only.
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European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Ordering information only.
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International Journal of Sport Nutrition
- Table of contents for current and previous volume. No text.
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J Canadian Dietetic Association
- Ordering and author information, plus abstracts from just a couple of recent articles.
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Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
- Descriptive only.
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J Nutritional Immunology
- Searchable index of selected abstracts and tables of contents from this journal form part of the more general journal data base which constitutes this gopher based BUBL library TOC service.
- J. Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
Nutrition in Clinical Practice
- Two journals of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition This site gives descriptions and subscription information only.
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Nutrition and the MD
- Ordering information only.
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Trends
in Food Science & Technology
- Home page only.
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Nutrition in Clinical Practice
- Description only.
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Nutrition Research Reviews
- Annual nutrition research review publication. The site supposedly has TOC for 1995-7, but in fact there is only 1995 as yet, with no abstracts.
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Nutrition Today
- "Nutrition Today helps nutrition professionals clear a pathway through today's maze of fad diets and cure-all claims. An established journal, it publishes articles by leading nutritionists and scientists who endorse scientifically sound food, diet, and nutritional practices. Published bimonthly". Ordering information, no contents.
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The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
- From the UK. Some indication of topics for 1997, but no content on-line at present.
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Other journals relevant to nutrition
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Breastfeeding Review
- Information on journal only of Nursing Mothers Association Australia.
- The
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
- Content and abstracts from 1995.
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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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Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Abstracts of current and some previous issues. A search engine, although searching under the keyword "nutrition" did not reveal many articles.
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Epidemiology
- Abstracts of articles from this and last year.
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European Heart Journal
- Abstracts, table of contents and search engine with reasonable number of articles on hyperlipidaemia and other cardiovascular nutrition topics.
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European Journal of Epidemiology
- Search and TOC from 1996. A related journal is European Journal of Public Health.
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The
FASEB journal
- Federation of American Societies for Experimental
Biology. Some abstracts on-line.
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J. American Geriatrics Society
- Abstracts of this and last year's issues, no search engine.
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Heallth Education Research
- Search and TOC from 1996.
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Journal of Cereal Science
- Table of contents and abstracts for 1995-7 from the Academic Press Library service.
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Journal of Fish Biology
- Table of contents and abstracts for 1995-7 from the Academic Press Library service.
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The Milbank Quarterly
- Premier journal for health services research and public health policy. Has search engine and abstracts on-line.
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"Pediatrics"
- Currently a free trial acess to on-line version of this major medicla
journal. can access current and past issues from 1996. Search engine allows many options,
e.g.author, title, anywhere in text etc. Also Medline access.
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Preventive Medicine
- Table of contents and abstracts for 1995-7 from the Academic Press Library service.
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"Scientific American"
- There are plenty of nutrition and food stories within the pages of
this great American publishing institution. Their web site offers a searchable set of articles from
past issues which uses Excite's concept matching and relevance rating features. The site also has
new stories and bookmarks. Generally has an appealing visual interface. enter your own search,
our use this one:
http://www.sciam.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=nutrition+diet+food&searchby=concept&group
by=confidence&docs=100
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Alternative, complementary, environmental and vegetarian journals
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Clinical Nutrition Update Back Isses
- Back Issues -- 1992-1995. Subscription
information, sample Issue.
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Delicious!
Magazine
- Health store products and naturopathic approach to diet. On-line
contents and search engine.
- Health and Environment Review
- Group based in Queensland, Australia. "draws from a wide range of material including primary scientific journals and our own professional experience".
- Journal of Advancement in Medicine
- Alternative nutritional medicine journal. Abstracts and TOC of current and recent past issues.
- Journal of Optimal Nutrition: editorials
- Brian Leibovitz PhD appears to be the editor of a journal Optimal Nutrition and these appear to be editorials from that journal. Presently 5 articles with a nutritional supplemental approach. Well referenced.
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Journal
of Orthomolecular Medicine
- Only small sample of text material, although more might be planned (? will charge for
access?).
- Nutrition
Advocate
- Vegetarian newsletter.
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International Nutrition Consultants newsletter,
- Orthomolecular nutrition company which intends to have a
newsletter as of 1/97. Also a "nutrition dictionary" with brief entries of some nutrition terms.
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Delicious! Magazine
- Health store products and naturopathic approach to diet. On-line contents and search engine.
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Nutrition News and newsletters
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American Council on Science and Health news releases
- Non-profit body aimed at interpreting scientific research for lay understanding. According to the web site it works on "consumer education consortium concerned with issues related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle, the environment and health. " The site has articles and press releases on a range of nutrition related topics, as well as other public health issues.
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Australian Nutrition Foundation newsletter
- Australia's leading nutrition education organisation has the latest newsletter (nicely illustrated) on-line.
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BASF Nutritional Newsletter
- Quarterly newsletter on fnutrition and health from this international vitamin manufacturer. the articles appear in full but plain text and although they cover a wide range of topics there is naturally some focus on the role of vitamins, food fortification etc.
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Byting In
- Newsletter related to computers in dietetics. A selection of full text articles provided on-line. "Byting In addresses computer applications related to foodservice, clinical nutrition management, nutritional analysis, and RD private practice/consulting.". The newsletter is available by subscription in email form from the company which publishes it, which also has a range of other nutrition software.
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Clinical Pearls
- A Health letter on Current Research in nutrition and preventive medicine. Table of Contents for current issue and can request free issue (by mail), but otherwise there is no content available on-line.
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Doctors Guide - Metabolic and
nutritional news
- Every month or so this medical cybersite puts up a news story
related to nutrition. Tends to focus on drug and supplementary food treatments.
- Food Composition Bulletins: USDA
- Food
and Nutrition Digest
- Cooperative extension department from Univ.of Kansas
produce this. Lots of pay oriented food and food safety stories. Available
in both html and Adobe formats. Each bimonthly issue has a table of contents
and there is an index.
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Food Insight (IFIC newsletter)
- Generally pitched more at food journalist level than
health professionals.
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Food Chatter
- Newsletter of the Kansas University Medical Center Dpt.Nutrition.
Has lay oriented articles and qiuizes, with strong food emphasis.
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FoodTalk
- Email newsletter from Univ. of Nebraska (Lincolln) Extension, provides "a short "how-to" message on food, nutrition, or food safety for health professionals, educators, and consumers."
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Food
Outlook (FAO)
- Newsletter providing "Global Information and Early Warning
System" from FAO with staistics and reports on food and crop situation worldwide.
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Healthgate: Healthy Eating
- Lay articles on nutrition with an emphasis on recent news and research findings.
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Michigan State Univ. Extension Food & Nutrition Bulletin
- Searchable!
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NAPS: food-related news releases
- PR and news release site. These are food, cooking and food product related stories, some with graphics (cartoons etc.).
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National Institute of Nutrition newsletters
- "Rapport" , "NIN Review" and the consumer friendly "Healthy
Bites".
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Nutrition Action Health Letter
- Sample of articles from this subscription lay information newsletter which features apparently orthodox nutritional perspectives, often based on interviews with experts.
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Nutrition Notes: American Inst.of Nutrition newsletter)
- American Institute of Nutrition's quarterly newsletter " It provides news of member activities, future meetings, course offerings, NIH grant opportunities, Division News, Student News, possible job opportunities, available relevant publications, and news of the annual meeting."
- Nutrition
Reporter
- Nutrition Science News Magazine
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Nutrition News
- Lay oriented monthly update on a nutritional topic (particularly but not entirely related to
nutrition and illness) from Department of Clinical Nutritional Services, Cheshire Medical Center
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Omega-3 & 6 News
- "An online newsletter, reference center and conferencing area dedicated to the science and industry surrounding polyunsaturated fatty acid". From Univ.of Minnesota, has a newsletter on omega fatty acids, a list of links and a omega 3 news section.
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Reuters Health: news stories search
- Great service which returns up-to-the minute news stories on health matters. Search under `nutrition' or `diet' for information on the latest controversies from a general public perspective. Worth stopping by regularly!
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Tufts
Nutr.Dpt: newsletter
- Sample articles in full text, but not clear what the sampling frame
is!
- USDA's
News Release Index
- No search engine as yet, although one is advertised.
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Vitamin Update
- Australian author provides monthly brief summaries of research into clinical and preventive role of vitamins, taken from research journals, conference reports etc. Very interesting.
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Wellness Letter -- University of California at Berkeley
- Selected article or two from current and some past issues. The newsletter is for lay readership. "...edited by research scientists and written in lay English. Features the latest news from the world of preventive medicine and practical advice on all aspects of healthy living. Regular topics include nutrition and
weight control, self-care, prevention of cancer and heart disease, emotions and their health effects, illustrated how-to articles on sports and exercise, buying guides to foods and such health-related products as running shoes, sunscreens, peanut butter, breakfast cereal, plus tips on healthy cooking, safe driving, dental care, contraception, smoking cessation, and other daily-life issues, answers to questions from readers, fascinating facts, and a health "myth" deconstructed every month. Rated #1 health newsletter by the Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Money, and The Baltimore Sun for readability, authority, and timeliness. "
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NUTRITION
BOOKS, PUBLISHERS
Publishers, lists of books
Specific books
Publishers, lists of books
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National Academy Press
- National Academy Press publishes a range of technical publications, including reports from the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine. These are available on-line: see below. for the publishers material at large. The site also has a search engine
- Chapman
& Hall Nutrition Resource Center
- Searchable list of nutrition texts.
- Lippincott-Raven's
List of Nutrition Titles
- Searchable list of nutrition texts.
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Williams Wilkins Publishers: nutrition texts
- List of nutrition books with links to individual descriptions of them.
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Dial-A-Dietitian's recommended book list
- List of good books for the lay public over a variety of nutritional areas. Also some newsletters, some but mostly not on-line.
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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 and all have ordering information from Amizon Books. Many are popular or alternative nutrition flavour.
Specific books
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Nutrition for a Living Planet
- One vegetarian guy's personal perspective based on his reading of nutrition research has resulted in his writing this book, which is placed on-line from this index page. Plain text, a few references. See also his home page.
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National Academy Press
- Excellent resource! National Academy Press has provided information on its range of technical publications, which includes a set of on-line nutrition reports from the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine. Subjects include: public health, RDI and dietary guidelines, iron deficiency, pregnancy and nutrition for the military, high altitude and cold environments. The texts are provided as page by page views, and as well there are table of contents and thumbnail views to help navigate.
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The Nutrition Desk
Reference
- Book offers combination of latest research findings and basics of nutition. What outline information is provided here suggests the text has something of a supplement and alternative orientation. The site itself is mainly advertising for the book, with little of the book's actual content on-line.
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Foods That Harm, Foods That
Heal
- Readers Digest book. The web site "offers a sample from the more than four hundred articles and features contained in the book, with a quiz and on-line ordering."
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Vitamins in Cancer
Prevention & Treatment
- Information only about a book which offers to provide facts on "the usefulness of
vitamin supplements in preventing and treating cancer".
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Foods That Harm, Foods That
Heal
- Readers Digest book. The web site "offers a sample from the more than four hundred articles and features contained in the book, with a quiz and on-line ordering."
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"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.
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NUTRITION
SOFTWARE, PICTURES, MULTIMEDIA
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Lists of software, multimedia
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Specific software programs, multimedia
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Food pictures, images
Lists of software, multimedia
FNIC: software and multimedia materials database
Huge list of software programs in menu, food service, nutrition education and analysis. Description, cost and contact details, including where relevant web site addresses.
NALUSDA:
software and multimedia database
Simtel
shareware
A list of over 20 shareware programs for MS-DOS on recipes, food costing, nutritional data base and herbs. There are similar programs for Windows 3.1 and Win95 . Gives access to Nutrigenie software (see below).
Swiss Public Health: food software and picture links
Also food composition database (coming 1996!), nutrition
links, Eurofoods.
"Byting In"
Newsletter related to computers in dietetics. A selection of full text articles provided on-line. "Byting In addresses computer applications related to foodservice, clinical nutrition management, nutritional analysis, and RD private practice/consulting.". The newsletter is available by subscription in email form from the company which publishes it, which also has a range of other nutrition software: see below under Grossbauer Group.
Specific software programs, multimedia
Note: see also under on-line nutrition calculators
BrainStorm
Cooking, health software
Grossbauer Group
Publishes range of nutrition software and a newsletter on the subject.
Mexfoods CD-ROM
This is a project in development by J Angel Ledesma.
Nutrition in Medicine® Project software
"a program whose mission is to increase and advance the nutrition training that medical students receive. With the help of their advisory board, MNCI team members have developed an interactive, multi-media software series that is available to medical schools throughout the United States. " That is about all that this page contains!
Mirical
Nutrition Corporation software
"Mirical writes nutritional software. Our first
product, the Personal Food Analyst has become the best selling
nutritional analysis and monitoring software package for Hewlett-Packard's
palmtop computers." Also Windows and DOS products.
NutriGenieSoftware
Company specialising in nutrition software for dietitians and the public. Their range (for which some evaluation copies for Windows can be downloaded from their site) includes:
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Pregnancy nutrition software
- Analyses a pregnant woman's diet
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High Blood Pressure Nutrition software
- "The software is based on the report
of the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. Database: 10,000 items plus user's own food database. Analyses: RDA, calories,
protein, carbohydrate, total fat, cholesterol, sodium, fiber, potassium and calcium.
Features: cholesterol profiler, weight control planner, body mass index, caloric need andcaloric expenditure calculators, caloric and nutrient distribution analyzer, search and sort capabilities."
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Mealformation menu management software
- Menu management software for the general public.
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Nutrition for Women software
- "Database: 10,000 items plus user's
own food database. Analyses: RDA, calories, protein, carbohydrate, total fat, iron, calcium. Features: weight
control planner, body mass index, caloric need and caloric expenditure calculators, weight
log and diet history tracker, target heart rate calculator, caloric and nutrient
distribution analyzer, search and sort capabilities."
Nutristar nutrient data base:
Hopkins Technology
Hopkins distribute several CD-ROM titles with various sophistication of nutrient data and ability to analyse an individual diet. Nutristar is the largest DB, with over 40,000 foods including many commercial products, and offering information on around 100 nutrients (US nutrient data).
Nutritionist IV
Several nutrition analysis/diet planning software options.
WholeGrain Software
Information about their own software for academic, lay and food industry use. Largely diet analysis and nutrition teaching programs. Also a small amount of educational discussion, along alternative nutrition debunking lines.
Pathogen Modeling Program: USDA
Predicts likelhood of growth of E.coli etc. in food. Download it for Windows from this site of the USDA's Eastern Regional Research Center
Food pictures, images
Diet, Exercise and Fitness Cartoons by Randy Glasbergen
Commercial cartoonist whose B&W cartoons take a wry look at weight loss and the get-fit craze generally. This is his advertising site - you pay to use his material.
The Food Resource
From Oregon State University. Lots of foods are listed in a long table, many of which have textual material and one or more .jpeg images. "The purpose of this information base is to provide a large collection of jpeg images of foods, other foods references, and links to related documents."
Food clip
art, pictures
Texas Agricultural extension collection.
Fruit display screen saver !!
A screen saver that promotes eating serves of fruit. The download file is 915k in size. Offered as an incentive to participate in a health promotion project
MetaMedia:
publications for food /nutrition professionals
The site is a little confusing. It seems to be mainly a showcase and order form for their
own products, which are nutritional education slides, tapes etc. Promise of a newsletter to come, and
some links.
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Miscellaneous publication and media material
- Nat.Health
Information Centre (US): 1995 Publications List: Nutrition
- Ordering information.
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