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Useful Websites

From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute come these fascinating and useful tools...

Plan a single meal or a whole day’s meals.
Interactive Menu Planner
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Do You know how food portions have changed in 20 years?
Portion Distortion Quiz
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Plan a single meal or a whole day’s meals.
Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator
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General Health and Wellness

The nation’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, promoting optimal nutrition, health and well-being
American Dietetic Assocation
www.eatright.org

Advancing healthier living, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke
American Heart Association
www.americanheart.org

Providing diabetes research, information, and advocacy
American Diabetic Association
www.diabetes.org

Extensive information about thousands of different medications and drugs currently on the market or previously available.
DrugWatch.com
www.drugwatch.com

Want to see how much sugar is in your food? Here's a great website to check out. Compare foods, see where sugar is hiding, and how much of the sweet stuff you're really eating.
Sugar Stacks
www.sugarstacks.com

Dedicated to the pursuit of health and happiness, featuring articles, blogs by experts, and more
Wellness.com
www.wellness.com

Vegetarian recipes and nutrition information
Vegetarian Resource Group
www.vrg.org

If you’re interested in researching medical conditions, spend some time here. Enter a drug, disease, or therapy name and explore a web of results.
Curehunter Visual Medical Dictionary
www.curehunter.com

Food Databases

The USDA National Nutrient Database for standard reference
USDA Food Database
www.nal.usda.gov

A comprehensive food database geared toward the consumer. Provides recipes, diet and weight loss resources, tools and information.
CalorieKing
www.calorieking.com

A comprehensive site, geared toward healthcare professionals, but with so much great information you might want to check it out: food value tables, nutrition facts calorie counter and calculator, and complete nutritional information for any food or recipe.
NutritionData.com
www.nutritiondata.com

Nutrition & Diet Tracking

Track and analyze your nutrition, weight loss, diet and fitness online — free and private
FitDay
www.fitday.com

A nutrition analysis tool developed in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois. Among other things, it includes an energy calculator for estimating how many calories you use in a day.
Z Trim NATS
nat.crgq.com

Personal weight and nutrition software
DietPower
www.dietpower.com

Eating Disorders

Working to prevent eating disorders, provides treatment referrals
National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA, formerly EDAP)
www.nationaleatingdisorders.org

A book that teaches women how to free themselves from disordered eating.
Eating in the Light of the Moon by Anita Johnston
www.dranitajohnston.com

A wonderful, easy read about overcoming eating disorders.
Life Without ED by Jenni Schaefer
www.jennischaefer.com

Specializing in eating disorders publications and education
Gurze Books
www.gurze.com

A recovery center for women who suffer from eating disorders
Center for Change
www.centerforchange.com

Sports Nutrition

A not-for-profit academic society dedicated solely to sports nutrition
International Society of Sports Nutrition
www.sportsnutritionsociety.org

One of the largest and most prestigious dietetic practice groups within the American Dietetic Association
Sports Cardiovascular & Wellness Nutritionists (SCAN)
www.scandpg.org

PCOS and Fertility

A blog about polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), by members of the inCYST network
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) blog
www.incyst.com

Exploring how choices we make that keep the planet healthy ensure our own health in the process
inCYST blog radio
www.blogtalkradio.com

Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM)

A group of health practitioners interested in the role of alternative therapies and dietary supplements in health and disease
Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine (DIFM, formerly NCC)
www.complementarynutrition.org

A great source for practical, science-based, clinically relevant information about functional medicine
Institute for Functional Medicine
www.functionalmedicine.org

Monthly presentations by speakers, authors, and lecturers who lead the way in functional medicine and mind, body, and spirit advancement
Colorado Functional Medicine Forum
www.functionalmedicineforum.org

Essential Nutrition Inc. does not endorse any commercial product, company, or service that may be mentioned on the websites listed above.

 

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