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The American Society for Nutrition (ASN) is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together the world's top researchers, clinical nutritionists and industry to advance our knowledge and application of nutrition for the sake of humans and animals. Focus ranges from the most critical details of research and application to the broadest applications in society, in the United States and around the world.
Provides links to healthy diet goals, the Dictionary of Nutrition, healthy cooking recipes and tips, tips for dining our, special and general diet cookbooks, grocery list builders and a variety of other educational resources!
Created by the USDA, Presents a spatial overview of food access indicators for low-income and other census tracts using different measures of supermarket accessibility - data is downloadable.
Assembles statistics on food environment indicators to stimulate research on the determinants of food choices and diet quality, and provides a spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food.
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.
The Mission of the Nutrient Data Laboratory is "to develop authoritative food composition databases and state of the art methods to acquire, evaluate, compile and disseminate composition data on foods available in the United States."
The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) works to improve the health and well-being of Americans by developing and promoting dietary guidance that links scientific research to the nutrition needs of consumers.
an international database of prospectively registered systematic reviews in health and social care, welfare, public health, education, crime, justice, and international development, where there is a health related outcome
