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  • About Nutrition
    Numerous links to nutrition information on subjects such as Alternatives, Cancer, Child Nutrition, and Soy. There are also topics which are "In the Spotlight."

  • AllExperts.com
    Nutritionists and dietitians answer your detailed one-on-one questions for free.

  • American Dietetic Association
    Your link to nutrition and health.sm

  • American Food Service Association
    ASFSA has been advancing the availability, quality and acceptance of school nutrition programs as an integral part of education since 1946. The primary activities of the association are providing education and training; setting standards through certification and credentialing; gathering and transmitting regulatory, legislative, industry, nutritional and other types of information related to school nutrition; and representing the nutritional interests of all children.

  • American School Food Service Association
    American School Food Service Association: The Voice of Child Nutrition. ASFSA is a non-profit professional association representing 60,000 members of the school foodservice industry.

  • Appetite/Eating Problems
    Getting your children to eat right is hard enough in the best of circumstances-just look at the number of articles and books on the topic.

  • Association for Children's Nutritional Growth
    The Child & Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a federally funded program operated through the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. The primary goal of the child care segment of this program is to help improve the diets of young children. This child nutrition program introduces many different types of food to children and helps teach them good eating habits.

  • British Meat Education Service
    British Meat Education Service education website for teachers and pupils covering nutrition and teaching resources.

  • British Nutrition Foundation
    The Foundation promotes the nutritional wellbeing of society through the impartial interpretation and effective dissemination of scientifically based nutritional knowledge and advice.

  • Canada Food Guide
    This resource discusses how you, as an educator or communicator, can use Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating to promote healthy eating among preschool children aged two to five years.

  • Cancer Nutrition Center
    Learn about the value of food in your fight for recovery from cancer. Learn how you can protect your family and yourself with a diet rich in botanical factors.

  • Child Care Nutrition Resource System
    The Child Care Nutrition Resource System provides you with recipes, resources and information on preparing nutritious meals and food safety.

  • Child Nutrition
    From "Building Better Health" - a comprehensive guide to child nutrition...articles, guidelines, FAQ's.

  • Child Nutrition & Growth
    Do you have questions about your child's growth pattern? Is he growing normally? Is he too fat, too thin, too short, or too tall? Is he eating enough to grow properly?

  • Child Nutrition Program
    Child Nutrition Program - helping child care centers and homes serve nutritious meals, and possibly receive reimbursement from the CACFP.

  • Childrens Nutrition Guide
    Your child's diet is important to her overall health. Proper nutrition can also prevent many medical problems, including becoming overweight, developing weak bones, and developing diabetes and will ensure that your child grows to her full potential.

  • Cook it Quick
    Learning to do more and more in less and less time isn't the only path to putting food on the table. Sometimes it helps to look for ways to free up time. Here are two offerings that may help you put more time in your life and more life in your time!

  • Cooking With Kids
    Information and links to sites about cooking with kids.

  • CSPI
    The Center for Science in the Public Interest is a non-profit education and advocacy organization that focuses on improving the safety and nutrition quality of food.

  • CSPI Kid Stuff -- CHOW Club!
    Unfortunately, many lunchboxes are overloaded with fat, sugar and salt and are missing fruit, vegetables and whole grains,” said Margo Wootan, senior scientist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). “But since a handful of foods do most of the damage to children’s diets and health, a handful of changes can go a long way toward improving them.”

  • Cyberdiet
    This site answers questions about adopting a healthy lifestyle, with links to Diet & Nutrition, along with Support & Motivation.

  • Decorated Cookie Ideas for Super Bowl & Football Parties
    Football fans with cheer YOU when they eat decorated cookies in the shape of a football player, team helmet, megaphone and pompoms. These cookies are just too cute for words except oohs and aahs! Photos and Cookie Decoration 101 Step-by-Step Instructions at

  • Department of Agriculture/Team Nutrition
    The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) reduces hunger and food insecurity in partnership with cooperating organizations by providing children and needy families access to food, a healthful diet and nutrition education in a manner that supports American agriculture and inspires public confidence.

  • Developmentally Appropriate Food and Nutrition Skills for Young Children
    By interacting with their surroundings, children are able to examine, question, and understand things around them and begin to build basic concepts, learning through exploration, discovering variety in foods, and developing sound nutrition habits. Parents, teachers, and child care providers can accumulate new ideas for planning exciting learning adventures for young children through food experiences.

  • Dietetics Online
    A professional networking organization of nutrition and dietetic professionals.

  • Eat Smart
    Nutrition Education Resources.

  • Eat Well, Live Well-
    Nutrition and health information for the general public and health professionals

  • Eating For Health
    Eating For Health offers dietary intake assessment, internet programmes for diabetes, high cholesterol and sustainable weight loss, and a library of diet and nutrition material.

  • Egg Nutrition Center
    This site is for egg lovers, egg producers and processors, nutritionists and health care providers, and anyone who wants to learn more about eggs and good nutrition.

  • Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
    Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, Its mission is to help limited-income families and youth acquire knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavior changes necessary to maintain nutritionally sound diets and enhance personal development

  • Fabulous Foods
    FoodContact.com directory of food & beverage exporters. cooking, recipes, cooking schools, cooking tutorials, cooking instructions, holidays, entertaining ideas, kitchen tips, celebrity chefs

  • Family Food Zone
    This site is mostly about making healthy food choices for your children. All of the information you will find on the site is supplied and reviewed by registered dietitians, and health and nutrition experts from around the country.

  • Fantastifood Fables
    Come with a brother and sister as they help save the land of Fanatstifood from the Junk Food Junkies in this online fantasy fable for kids.

  • Fast Foods and Nutrition
    The Real Truth About Fast Foods and Nutrition

  • Feeding the Whole Family
    An excellent whole foods cookbook for babies, children, and the rest of the family. Includes insights on starting solids, breastfeeding, and attracting children to healthy eating.

  • Feingold Program
    The Feingold Program itself is a test to determine if certain foods or food additives are triggering particular symptoms.

  • Fiber
    Fiber is indigestible carbohydrate found in the cell walls of plant foods. Although fiber isn't an essential nutrient, a high-fiber diet keeps your digestive system running smoothly, can help you lose weight, and may lower your risk of heart disease and certain cancers.

  • Food Additives
    Food manufacturers use additives to help prevent spoilage or contamination and to make food look and taste better. Before an additive can be used, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must approve it for safety and effectiveness. Once the FDA okays an additive, a regulation is written that states what foods may contain the additive and in what amount. No approval is permanent, and all additives are reviewed periodically.

  • Food and Nutrition Information Center
    Information on healthy school meals, food safety, dietary guidelines, food composition, Food Guide Pyramid, and healthy eating index.

  • Food and Vitamins
    General information about foods, vitamins and the benefits they provide.

  • Food Directory
    The Food Directory provides access to a range of services, resources and information sources that can help teachers to improve the quality, diversity and use of food related teaching, and create a higher profile for, and interest in food within schools.

  • Food for Tots
    Answers about what to do about fussy eaters, food alergies, safety, and nutrition. Fun activities to do with pre-schoolers, recipes, cooking tips, and more.

  • Food Forum
    FoodForum is an independent food education service, supporting schools and parents to understand, use and enjoy food.

  • Food Fun and Facts
    Large homemaking Site-Recipes, Household Hints and Freebies.

  • Food Standards Agency
    The Food Standards Agency is an independent food safety watchdog set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public's health and consumer interests in relation to food.

  • FoodWeb
    FoodWeb features readers' recipes, original articles about food, wine, recipes, book reviews, cooking tips, and product reviews.

  • Games and educational stuff for kids
    Food nutrition and health information and resources for health professionals. Includes general nutrition information (referenced), searchable database of research, links to other sources of nutrition information including network contacts.

  • Got Milk?
    Cool games and activities for kidsfrom the "got milk" people. Lots of fun for kids

  • HealthNet
    Find out all about Heart Health and more. Visit the virtual HealthNet from CPG. Great animation to get the facts to the young.

  • Healthy Kids Challenge
    We help elementary schools customize plans suited to their needs in a variety of ways. For instance, we support efforts to create healthier school lunches, involve students in menu choices, offer ways to incorporate nutrition education into classrooms and add physical activity to the school day, and much more.

  • Healthy School Meals
    The Healthy School Meals Resource System is a searchable Web site providing information on USDA Child Nutrition Program including training and resources, recipes and menus, food safety, regulations, and more.

  • Herbs and Spices
    History, definitions, usage of herbs and spices from the Virginia Cooperative.

  • Kelloggs Nutrition Camp
    Kellogg'sTM Nutrition Camp, the prime place for fun and nutrition basics.

  • Kids Cooking Club
    Kids Cooking Club offers a membership program designed to teach children all about good food, kitchen safety, nutrition, and basic cooking skills. We provide a quality kitchen experience for kids ages 3 - teens.

  • Kids Health and Fitness
    Information about nutrition and physical activity for teachers and kids.

  • Kids Nutrition First Rhode Island
    Kids First and the Rhode Island Team Nutrition Training Institute provide education, training and other services to improve children's nutrition in Rhode Island.

  • Kids, Cookies, Caviar
    Children gaining basic educational skills through cooking.

  • Kids-Weight News Online Newsletter
    In this Newsletter you will find articles about nutrition, children's health, recipes, fun and games, and family fitness.

  • Let's Eat! Children and Healthy Eating Habits
    Most parents worry at one time or another that their child’s eating habits may not be good enough to stay healthy. Some children ask for the same foods over and over again, some may refuse to try anything new, some may avoid all varieties of a kind of food, and some may constantly demand snacks.

  • Lucy Burney
    All about food and nutrition for children, whether they are babies or teenagers. Here you will find all the information you need to keep your children healthy and improve their resistance to disease.

  • MilkZone
    Welcome to Milkzone! Explore inside this gigantic life form and find out cool stuff about dairy! Play games and Have a laugh!

  • Mott's Cyber-Orchard
    A family site from the maker of apple juice and apple sauce. Low fat recipes for baking healthy snacks, genealogy tree, kids games and more.

  • Nestle Clinical Nutrition
    Welcome to the Nestle Clinical Nutrition Website

  • New Century Nutrition
    A website about food, nutrition and health and how food and nutrition relate to disease and health. Nutrition research, health news, and intelligent articles and commentary to create greater awareness of food and nutrition and its relationship to health.

  • Nutrition - National Network of Child Care
    The National Network of Child Care's database of Articles & Features dealing with Nutrition Issues, Breastfeeding & Infant Nutrition, Food-related Activities, Meals and Snacks, and Food Safety.

  • Nutrition and the Brain
    Your brain is like a car. A car needs gasoline, oil, brake fluid and other materials to run properly. Your brain also needs special materials to run properly: glucose, vitamins, minerals and other essential chemicals...

  • Nutrition Dictionary
    Here's a thumbnail sketch of what vitamins, minerals and other nutrients do in the body, and where you'll find them.

  • Nutrition Education for New Americans Project
    The Nutrition Education for New Americans Project is a program in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Georgia State University. It is sponsored by USDA to assist low income immigrants to learn about healthy eating practices.

  • Nutrition Explorations
    Nutrition Explorations is all about Eating Smart and Growing Strong. Every area of this website offers exciting ways to help you teach children about nutritious food and a healthy diet.

  • Nutrition Focus
    Health and wellness portal, providing information on nutrition and supplementation, diseases and conditions, complementary medicine, health news and much more...

  • Nutrition for Kids
    Sponsored by 24 Carrot Press, this site promotes published materials that take a positive, fun approach to the more serious issues that affect children today, including poor eating habits, obesity and inactivity.

  • Nutrition For Kids
    Welcome to Nutrition for Kids, sponsored by 24 Carrot Press. We publish materials that take a positive, fun approach to the more serious issues that affect children today, including poor eating habits, obesity and inactivity.

  • Nutrition Gov
    A new federal resource, provides easy access to all online federal government information on nutrition. This national resource makes obtaining government information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety, easily accessible in one place for many Americans.

  • Nutrition Guidelines
    Soft Cheese and Cold Cuts Safer Child Food Tips for more suggestions on how to avoid making food the issue National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - "Cholesterol in Children" Go Straight to Links (Including Links on Vegetarianism) Safer Child's Thoughts on Dieting

  • Nutrition Magician
    Nutrition Magician brings the magical motivation of healthier bodies and brighter minds brought about by maximizing mealtimes.

  • Nutrition Navigar
    The fastest, most reliable way to find sound nutrition information on the Web.

  • Nutrition Network News
    What are the goals of Nutrition Network News? Advocate for district and school policies that ensure a healthy eating and physical activity school environment Implement a communication link between food vendors and school food services Promote healthy foods based on the nutrition principles of "5-a Day" -- 5 fruits and vegetables a day Increase physical activity in schools by implementing SPARK (Sports, Play and Active Recreation for Kids) program

  • Nutrition Tips
    Nutrition Tips for Women, Infants, and Children

  • Nutrition.gov
    Nutrition.gov highlights some of its many links to food, nutrition, physical activity, and food safety.

  • Nutritiously Gourmet
    Nutritiously Gourmet offers balanced menus with recipes for the everyday cook. If you want to "eat right" for health and disease prevention and enjoy good food at the same time, you have come to the right place.

  • Office of Dietary Supplements
    The National Institutes of Health launched this database that contains over 250,000 records of journal articles on dietary supplements.

  • PowerFood.org
    Welcome to PowerFood.org ! Providers of Living Food and Living Food Workshops.

  • RDlink.com
    Your connection to Registered Dietitians on the Web. Explore dietitian links by category including: General Dietitians, Various Clinical Specialties, Diabetes, Children's Nutrition, Fitness and Weight loss, Consulting, Education based dietitians and Dietitians in Southern Illinios. Also - visit other nutrition links by category including: Nutrient analysis, Recipes, Diabetes resources, Heart healthy and special diets, Weight loss and fitness and Government information. This site is your link to dietitians on the web.

  • Shape Up America
    Shape Up America! is a high profile national initiative to promote healthy weight and increased physical activity in America.

  • Society for Nutrition Education
    The Society for Nutrition Education (SNE) represents the unique professional interests of nutrition educators in the United States and worldwide.

  • Sport Nutrition Supplement Savvy
    Gels, energy bars, recovery drinks:Sport drinks are mild carbohydrate-electrolyte solutions, designed to keep bodies well-hydrated and fueled during exercise of longer than 60-90 minutes. Drinking fluids during exercise also reduces the increase in body temperature and the amount of stress on the cardiovascular system, especially important when exercising in hot environments.

  • Super Pretzel
    Super Pretzel - product information, kids' activities, the history of the soft pretzel, and more.

  • Taste of Health
    Taste of Health presents the best in local, healthy cuisine - healthy for you and for the planet - together with the information you need to transition to a healthier lifestyle.

  • The Children's Department
    Features Links to Articles, Books, Herbs and Supplements for your Little Ones

  • The Dangers of Bad Diet
    Medical research has proved causes oft bad diets during pregnancy.

  • The Gerber Foundation
    Enhancing the quality of life of infants and young children in nutrition, care, and development through grants and programs.

  • The Importance of Good Nutrition
    Why is Nutrition Important for Good Social-Emotional Development?

  • The Importance Of Nutrition
    The importance of good nutrition is nothing new. Back in 400 B.C., Hippocrates said, "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food." Today, good nutrition is more important than ever. At least four of the 10 leading causes of death in the U.S.--heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes--are directly related to way we eat; diet is also implicated in scores of other conditions. But while the wrong diet can be deadly, eating right is among the key cornerstones of health.

  • The Pediatric Nutrition Network
    Wyeth Nutritionals remains unwaveringly committed to its guiding philosophy — a philosophy that is best expressed as the science of caring — applying the leading edge of nutritional discovery to reassure good health around the world.

  • The Power of Healthy Eating
    Author and expert Abigail Natenshon offers information and resources on the prevention and treatment of eating disorders. Learn all about healthy eating with quizzes, articles and question forum.

  • Walk-A-Bye Baby Fitness
    Walk-A-Bye Baby Fitness provide fitness classes, lifestyle programs, and fitness products to help new Moms live a healthier lifestyle.

  • Welch's Foods
    Browse The Welch's web site from the makers of Welch's Grape Juice. Features: Product Health Information, Pourable Concentrates, Jams, Jellies, Frozen Juices, Single Serve Juices, and Recipies.

  • Welcome to Cooking with Young Children
    In this web site you will find recipes for cooking experiences that require no heat, recipes to use for creating things, recipes for summer fun, and much more.

  • What's In Your Food - Phytochemicals
    Besides vitamins, minerals and fiber, plant foods contain substances known as phytochemicals, which protect plants from the ravages of sunlight, wind and other damages caused by Mother Nature (Phyto comes from the Greek word for plant). Although phytochemicals have no known nutritional value, some appear to have disease-fighting properties.

  • What's In your Food - Water
    Water, often called the "silent nutrient" may be overlooked or taken for granted. Yet, next to oxygen, water is the nutrient most needed for life. You could live for weeks without food but only a few days without water. Water balance is regulated by a sensitively controlled mechanism giving rise to thirst. The kidney also plays a role by conserving or excreting water as necessary.

  • Women, Infants and Children
    The National WIC Web site. Food, nutrition counseling, and access to health services are provided to low-income women, infants, and children under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, (WIC).

  • www.Grocery-Tips.com
    Great resource for everyone who buys groceries. Provides info on saving money, using coupons/rebates, stretching the grocery budget, choosing foods, food safety and more. You can ask the guru a question and even subscribe to the FREE weekly newsletter.

  • Your Energy Wake Up Call
    The Simple Solution to Healthy Eating and physical activity. Food on the Run, a program of California Project Lean, is administered by the Public Health Institute and funded by The California Endowment.

  • Coffee Maker Shop
    Directory of coffee makers and coffee machines, sorted by brand and by price range. Features drip, single serve, percolator and vacuum coffee makers. Offers Braun, Mr. Coffee, Cuisinart, Krups, and other coffee maker brands.

  • Come do your self right
    try the vitamin please

  • MexGrocer.com
    MexGrocer.com is a nationwide online grocery store for authentic Mexican food, Mexican recipes, Mexican food cookbooks, Mexican cooking tips and utensils.

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  • Nutritional Information – Nutrition Facts and Health Articles
    Health Articles & Nutrition Facts – New Zealand Nutritional Information – NZ Health Articles – Nutritional Information Articles - Nutrition Facts & Nutritional Information - A New Zealand Website for New Zealanders

  • plumbed in water coolers
    Suppliers of water coolers for the office, industrial workplaces, schools, and home delivery in the UK

  • Recipe Source
    The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes and your source for recipes on the Internet.

  • Smart-Mouth.org
    The info you need to make healthy, informed decisions about the food you eat.

  • Targetwoman - Women Informative Portal
    Features thousands of well researched articles on a wide range of topics of interest to women. Has a human edited directory of carefully chosen sites for women.

  • Tea Information
    Tea Genius is a complete knowledge base of tea. Nursing mothers who consume tea need to know the effects caffeine may have on their baby. This information and much more is available at Tea Genius.

  • Weight Directory
    The weight directory acts as a single point of navigation to the products and services you want to buy that can help you lose weight quickly and safely! Diet Books, Diet Supplements, Eating Disorders, Equipment, Fitness, Kids and Teens, Low Fat Recipes, Software, Support Groups, Videos and Weight Loss Programs


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