Links to alternative nutrition sites

Alternative nutrition organisations

Personal perspectives

Other alternative nutrition

Links to alternative nutrition sites

Healthy.Net - Nutrition Center: Nutrition Resource Center

Links to alternative nutrition resources, organisations, journals etc. (some of which charge for information).

Healthcraze!

Part of the NewHope site which carries a range of nutrition and alternative medicine resources. This is a gathering point for news and on-line discussion regarding alternative medicine and healthy living including food and nutrition components.

MedMarket: Nutritional Products listing

A fairly lengthy alphabetically sorted list of companies and sites related to nutritional products the health and supplemental area generally. There is a sentence of two of description for most of them.

American College for Advancement in Medicine

"The American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) is a non-profit alternative medicine society dedicated to educating physicians on the latest findings and emerging procedures in preventive/nutritional medicine."

Canadian School of Natural Nutrition

Information about courses, staff etc.. Teaches nutrition "for complimentary health care practitioners", some of which will be offered over the Internet. A sample is available, together with music to go with it!!!

International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine

Brief organisational information plus access to J.Orthom.Medicine

National Council Against Health Fraud

Office of Alternative Medicine: "The Scientist" article

Good popular science writing with interviews and pictures of main players in the new OAM $8 million research funding program.

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Personal perspectives

Austin Reference Guide for Vitamins

Austin appear to be a supplement company, and this is an essentially very brief, lay-oriented summary information on vitamins, minerals, herbs etc. with an alternative bent.

Environmental and Preventive Health Center of Atlanta

Series of short articles on environmental/nutrition material, of an alternative bent (candida, chronic fatigue, mercury poisoning, iron overload etc.)

HealthWorld - Nutrition Center: Nutrition Information Center

Alternatively oriented information on nutrition supplements etc., includes some interviews.

HealthComm; functional medicine

"biochemical individuality, metabolic balance, ecological context, and unique personal experience in the dynamics of health." In practice, a lot of alternative nutritional approaches are used. This site has a good deal of information about the company and its research and promotional activities and some introduction to the concepts of functional medicine, but not much in the way of direct clinical teaching material.

Macrobiotics Online

From Kushi Institute, information on courses, healthy vacations and about their own organisation and its products.

Metametrix

Commercial site with lay-oriented, fairly alternative nutrition.

Natural Nutrition

"In these pages, I seek to expose the deadly deception of the eating habits of today's developed nations, as well as encourage you with the wonderful whole-person benefits of good nutrition. I am a layperson..."

Nutramed: Environmed Research Inc.

Environmental nutrition organisation with a commercial string. The site has lots of alternative nutrition material, much of it expressing individual viewpoints. "You will find here a rich source of nutritional information, and an introduction to innovative solutions such as the Core Program."

The Nutrition Pages: "Jabbo"

Whoever Jabbo is, his page is fairly alternatively oriented, with a few links and some articles.

NutritionZone

Solidly pro-supplement site with articles about various nutrients, email-your-questions facility and newsletter.

Quick Results: supplement information

Health food store perspective on vitamin, mineral and other nutritional supplements.

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Other alternative nutrition

Ancient Remedies: article in "The Scientist"

From "The Scientist" magazine, well written lay information on use of ancient remedies in medicine, including nutritional ones.

Nutrition Dictionary

Brief entries of some nutrition terms from International Nutrition Consultants, an orthomolecular nutrition company which also intends to have a newsletter as of 1/97.

Low Carbohydrate Diets Information Center

Lay oriented material.

Nutrition Science News Magazine

Articles on supplementation etc.

Organic Gardening

Deals with both the pesticides, environmental and practical gardening aspects.

Thorne Abstracts

Alternative medicine site which has articles on nutritional and herbal preparations, providing references from the research literature. See also list of some individual article abstracts (apparently in Medline format) at: http://www.thorne.com/whatsnew.html

Achoo: Nutrition Business list

Part of a more general health directory, this section currently has about 60 companies listed, most with brief descriptions.

`Autonomy' Vitamin and Nutrition Links on the Web

Particularly useful list of commercial nutrition entities.

Dietitians Online: food companies list

An Irish flavour as well as international.

Einet: nutrition consumer product list

List of Health and Nutrition Consumer Products and Services.

Fooddudes

Good list of resources related to commercial aspects of food: products, manufacturers, professional services, associations etc.

Food Manufacturer's home pages list from Iowa Extn.

Reasonably long list of food manufacturers with web pages.

MedMarket: Nutritional Products listing

A fairly lengthy alphabetically sorted list of companies and sites related to nutritional products the health and supplemental area generally. There is a sentence of two of description for most of them.

Healthstore search

Healthy.Net: Health food products: search engine from Healthy Net

Search for vitamin and other health food store product listings. Returns brands and prices. Not clear whether this is just from one health store company or a wider range.

Linkstar

Try entering nutrition into their search page and you will get a long list of commercial nutrition products, many of them with a supplement or alternative flavour.

MedMarket: Nutritional Products listing

A fairly lengthy alphabetically sorted list of companies and sites related to nutritional products the health and supplemental area generally. There is a sentence of two of description for most of them.

New Hope Group

Natural products group also publishing supplement and healthy living related on-line and printed magazines. Their site has links to other alternative nutrition companies and products.

Yahoo! - Business and Economy:Companies:Health:Nutrition

Alphabetical order, with additional sections for some common supplements such as Aloe Vera and anti-oxidants.

Berkeley Nutrition Services

Commercial service offering nutrition analsis based on home-completed questionnaire. The web site is scheduled to offer free trial on-line screening analysis from 2/97, otherwise the site provides information about what they are offering.

Center for Digestive Health and Nutrition Home Page

Endoscopy Centre with a dietitian attached. Information about the centre, rather than clinical content.

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Miscellaneous nutrition matters

Trans Fatty Acid InfoWeb

Text with links to USDA perspective, other web pages, TFA content data etc.

Virtual Food Center

"Center for food and beverage information".

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.

Krispin Komments

Krispin Sullivan lists himself as a clinical nutritionist, and this is his personal perspective on a few nutritional and food issues.

Wildlife nutrition

Dave Helling is a student of nutrition in wild animals, and this is his home page.

Traditional (Native American) food and nutrition

Excellent site with lots of information on native American foods, nutritional problems, sources of nutrients and general nutritional information. The site author expresses a personal view and this makes the site all the more interesting.

Prehistoric Diet: course from Indiana University

Course information for their students, but there are some useful references to reading matter relevant to the subject.

The Army Dietitian

Description of their duties and recruiting information.

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Nutrition conferences

16th IUNS International Congress of Nutrition

At this early stage mainly has location and tentative program information.

International Conference on Agricultural Production and Nutrition

March 19-21 1997: includes material on nutrient qualities of organically produced food.

Food Safety Education Conference:Changing Strategies - Changing Behavior: What Food Safety Communicators Need to Know

Hotel Washington in Washington, DC, June 12-13, 1997. national conference devoted exclusively to developing innovative education programs that can change consumers' food handling behaviors. Nationally recognized experts will share the latest research and education methods for developing successful food safety education programs. The conference will also provide a forum for participants to meet the shared challenge of food safety education through cooperative partnerships.

Childhood and Adolescent Obesity: Prevention and Intervention conference

Run by University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 15-16, 1997. Web page has program and registration details.

Miscellaneous conferences without web sites:

National Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course: Application of Scientific Advances to Practice, July 9-12, 1997, University of Minnesota, MN sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. For program details, contact Kay Syme at tel 612/625-3451; fax 612/626-1632; email ksyme@mail.cee.umn.edu

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