Recommended Web Sites

Rules For Healthy Eating - See this easy to read fact sheet on good eating.

A Healthy Diet - The National Women's Health Information Center has created this fact sheet about sensible diets.

Canada's Food Guide - Our neighbors to the north use a rainbow to show the variety and amounts of food that make up a healthy diet.

CDC Healthy Eating Tips - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers some tips for healthy eating at home, work, and elsewhere.

Eat 5 a Day - Here are the government guidelines on how many fruit and vegetable servings we should all be eating. Look for great recipes too!

Serving Size Surprise! - InteliHealth provides this clever game - check your ability to determine the proper serving size of more than a dozen food items.

20 Ways To Revive Your Healthy Eating Plan - The Mayo Clinic offers this information.

American Dietetic Association - Good nutrition advice and publications, and a link to "Find a Dietitian".

American Diabetes Association - Excellent information on nutrition for diabetics and non-diabetics. Most of the diets with 'exchange' lists are derived from publications issued by this organization.

Are Detox Diets Safe? - The answer is no; but go to KidsHealth for Teens to find out more.

Basic Ingredients for a Healthy Kitchen - The American Cancer Society provides this information, which is good even if you don't have cancer.

Building a Better Diet - The Mayo Clinic offers this advice on eating well.

The Calorie King - Comprehensive list of calories for not only individual foods, but also for fast food products.

Daily Calorie Calculator - The Mayo Clinic makes this tool, and others, available at their site.

Eating Healthy With Ethnic Foods - The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute has created this handy list of the healthiest ethnic foods.

FitDay.com - FitDay members are tracking their foods, exercises, weight loss, and goals online. FitDay produces lists of fat, carbs, protein and alcohol; and allows you to chart what you eat and see how your food intake breaks down nutritionallly. And FitDay is free!

Food and Nutrition Information Center - The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Library team up to present this food and nutrition information from the government. Here you will find information on dietary supplements, the food pyramid and dietary guidelines.

Food Labeling and Nutrition - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration covers nutritional advice, how to read labels, and precautions about false advertisers in this consumer-oriented web site.

Food Pyramids: What Should You Really Eat? - The Harvard School of Public Health answers that question.

Fruits: How to Select, Store and Serve - The Mayo Clinic clues us in on how to best keep and eat fruit.

Healthy Breakfast - This time the Mayo Clinic explains the importance of a good breakfast.

Healthy Diet Basics: Using a Food Pyramid - The Mayo Clinic presents several specialty pyramids, in addition to the usual one: Asian, Latin American and Mediterranean, the Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid, and the Vegetarian Diet Pyramid.

The Healthy Fridge - This site is divided into four separate sections, including The Healthy Fridge, Good Nutrition, Heart of the Matter, and Just for Kids. Look for recipes, quizzes and other nutritional notes.

Just Enough For You: Food Portions - The Weigh-control Information Network has created this handout - just for you.

Mayo Clinic: Food & Nutrition Center - MayoClinic.com gives you access to the experience and knowledge of the more than 2,000 physicians and scientists of the Mayo Clinic. This site will provide information on the basics, the food and health connection, and how to take control.

MEDLINEplus: Nutrition - Developed by the National Library of Medicine, this consumer health site directs the user to selected online resources on many common diseases, conditions, and concerns. Other topics of interest include:

• Child Nutrition
• Nutrition for Seniors
• Obesity in Children

Monterey Bay Seafood Watch - This is a program of Monterey Bay Aquarium designed to raise consumer awareness about the importance of buying seafood from sustainable sources. They recommend which seafood to buy or avoid, helping consumers to become advocates for environmentally friendly seafood.

Mood and Food - The folks at the Mayo Clinic describe the connection between your moods and the foods you choose.

MyPyramid - The US Department of Agriculture has established new food guidelines, check out this site to see what you should be eating.

Nutrition.gov - The US Department of Agriculture hosts this excellent site.

Nutrition for Everyone: Quick Tips - The CDC provides these quick tips for healthy eating.

Nutrition Problems and Their Solutions - Thanks to the Cleveland Clinic for this extensive list of special problems and special solutions.

The Nutrition Source - Harvard School of Public Health has put together this web site.

Organically Grown Food: Evaluate Your Options - The MayoClinic has created this information page on organic foods.

Portion Distortion - Read how portion size has grown, and our waistlines have too! This site also provides good tips on recognizing the right portion size.

Powerful Bones, Powerful Girls - This site, from the CDC, has useful information on how to help girls develop lifelong bone-healthy habits.

Probiotics - The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has created this handout.

Red Wine and Your Heart - The journal Circulation has followed several studies about the benefits of wine.

The Role of Diet in Metabolic Syndrome - The National Institutes of Health has created this new bulletin especially about junk food and metabolic syndrome.

Score Your Diet - Click here to see how your diet affects not only your health, but the environment and animal welfare.

Vegetables: How to Select, Store and Serve - The Mayo Clinic clues us in on how to best keep and eat veggies.

What's In The Foods You Eat? - The full contents of the USDA Food Nutrient Database appear at this site, providing complete nutritional information for most foods.

Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths - The government's Weight Control Information Network has published this information on dieting and nutrition.

When You Have No Appetite:Tips To Get the Nutrition You Need - The Mayo Clinic offers these tips for when you just can't face food, but need to eat.

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