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- 5 A Day
- This national nutrition program seeks to increase the number of daily servings Americans eat of fruits and vegetables to five or more.
- Addiction intervention referrals
- National Intervention Referrals provides Quality intervention services for families and individuals who are struggling with addiction, alcoholism and other forms of crisis.
- Anemia and Iron Status
- Young children are at great risk of iron deficiency because of rapid growth and increased iron requirements. Iron deficiency can occur due to lack of iron in the diets. If this continues, anemia results. Anemia is a manifestation of iron deficiency when it is relatively severe.
- Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding topics, such as promotion, support, government activities and national policies.
- CDC, National Center for Environmental Health
- Offers information about food safety and food-related illnesses.
- Dietitian Directory
- Our goal is to connect people with the nutrition experts- Registered Dietitians. Diets don't work but a Registered Dietitian can work with clients to develop an eating plan to develop a healthful relationship with food.
- Dr. John La Puma's Healthy News
- Board-certified in internal medicine and on the staff of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Dr. La Puma has a multidisciplinary, step-by-step, careful nutritional and behavioral approach to people age 16 and up. College students welcome.
- Eating Disorders during Adolescence: Nutritional Problems and Interventions
- Description: Extensive reference for health care professionals, students and educators. Objectives:
1) Review the principle nutritional conditions, problems and treatments of eating disorders during adolescence, as documented through research and practitioner consensus. 2) Describe the consequences of nutritional deprivation during adolescence.
3) Characterize eating disorders in adolescence as a context for understanding nutritional aspects of the disorders.
- Formative Research for a Campaign to Promote Healthy Weight Using Relevant Physical Activity and Nutrition Messages for Youth (PDF - 122K)*
- This report summarizes a collaborative qualitative research study conducted by the CDC's Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity (DNPA) and Westat. The summary conclusions reflect ideas and strategies that could be integrated into a healthy-weight communication effort targeting young people.
- Healthy Eating Tips
- Variety, Balance and Moderation: Tips for healthy eating at home, work, and elsewhere.
- IMMPaCt
- International Micronutrient Malnutrition Prevention and Control Program
CDC's IMMPaCt program contributes its skills and resources to the global effort to eliminate micronutrient malnutrition. - Iron Overload and Hemochromatosis
- Hemochromatosis is a condition in which the body accumulates excess amounts of iron. Hereditary hemochromatosis is one of the most common genetic diseases in humans.
- Knowledge Path: Child and Adolescent Nutrition
- This knowledge path about child and adolescent nutrition has been compiled by the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Library at Georgetown University, and it provides a selection of current, high-quality resources and information tools. It is aimed at health professionals, program administrators, educators, researchers, and parents who are interested in tracking timely information on this topic. This path will be updated periodically.
- National Bone Health Campaign
- Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls.TM Educates and encourages girls aged 9 to 12 years and their parents to establish lifelong, healthy habits that build and maintain strong bones.
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
- Growth Charts PowerPoint Presentation
This set of 47 PowerPoint slides provides an overview of the 2000 CDC growth charts including background information on the rationale for changes in the revised charts and using and interpreting the body mass index (BMI)- for-age charts. Notes are provided for each slide. This material can be used as a training presentation for groups or individuals working with a pediatric population - National Nutrition Summit website
- Synopsis of recommendations from the National Nutrition Summit, held May 30 and 31, 2000 in Washington, D.C. and more. Focusses on nutrition and lifestyle issues across the lifespan, particularly those related to the nation's epidemic of overweight and obesity.
- NIDDK: Weight Loss and Weight Control topics
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is part of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Articles, Research and Statistics regarding healthy weight loss.
- Obesity and Overweight
- In the United States, obesity has risen at an epidemic rate during the past 20 years. One of the national health objectives for the year 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of obesity among adults to less than 15%.
- Obesity and Overweight State Programs
- CDC's State-based Nutrition and Physical Activity Program to support state health departments and their partners in developing and implementing targeted nutrition and physical activity interventions in an effort to prevent chronic diseases, especially obesity.
- OPC Antioxidant Reference Guide
- Description of the potential health benefits of OPC - Oligomeric Proanthocyanidins, includes research studies and FAQs on the super antioxidant OPC.
- PEP: A Personal Energy Plan
- The Personal Energy Plan or PEP is a 12-week self-directed, worksite program to promote healthy eating and moderate physical activity. The program materials include workbooks for healthy eating and physical activity targeting employees based on their readiness to change. A coordinator's kit, promotional brochures, and posters are also included in the program.
- Physical Activity and Good Nutrition: Essential Elements to Prevent Chronic Diseases and Obesity
- Physical inactivity and unhealthy eating contribute to obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Together, these two behaviors are responsible for at least 300,000 deaths each year.
- PNSS: Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System
- The Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System was developed in order to assist health professionals in achieving the goals of identifying and reducing pregnancy-related health risks that contribute to adverse pregnancy outcomes.
- PedNSS: Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System
- A system for continuously monitoring the nutritional status of specific high-risk population groups, developed in 1972 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in response to the United States Ten-State Nutrition Survey.
- Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls.TM Web Site for Girls
- The Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls. Web site has been updated with new poetry, exciting food ideas, and an informative and interactive section on reading food labels.
- Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls. Web Site for Parents
- A new Web site for parents with resources and creative ways to help your daughters make healthy choices that build and maintain strong bones.
- State Legislative Information
- The Legislative Database contains summaries of state legislative bills related to nutrition and physical activity from 2001 to present. Links are provided to each state legislature site to obtain the full-text version of the bill.
- Trends in Intake of Energy, Protein, Carbohydrate, Fat, and Saturated Fat United States, 1971-2000
- American adults are consuming more calories per day than they did 30 years ago, according to the latest analysis of the U.S. diet released by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. Also available in print-friendly format* (PDF - 222K).
- Tufts Nutrition Navigator
- A rating guide to many nutrition websites.
- U.S Food and Drug Administration News Release Archives
- Press releases on every topic related to FDA work including approval and recall information concerning food supplements, vitamins and medications, 1992 to present.
- U.S. Obesity Trends 1985 to 2002
- The prevalence of Obesity is explained in a slide presentation format.
- Vitamin D Expert Panel Meeting* (PDF-391K)
- In October 2001, scientists, health practitioners, and policymakers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), academic and professional institutions, and government agencies met in Atlanta, Georgia, to examine scientific issues and policy implications regarding vitamin D supplementation of breastfed infants. The final report is a summary of the presentations given by experts at the meeting and the panel discussions that followed each presentation. The statements in this document reflect the views of the expert panel members and guests and should not be interpreted as CDC policy.
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