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American Institute for Cancer Research
Diet, Nutrition and Cancer Prevention
"...site you'll find news, research updates, recipes, free publications and tips for good health ó information to help you live a healthier, cancer-free life."

Encyclopedia Nutrition Reference
From MEDLINEplus, National Library of Medicine

FAO International Network of Food Data Systems (INFOODS)
 "INFOODS is a comprehensive effort, under the United Nations University Food and Nutrition Programme and co-sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to improve data on the nutrient composition of foods from all parts of the world."

Food and Nutrition Library
"The Food and Nutrition Library 1.0 was developed in January 2000 by the United Nations University and the NGO Global Help Projects/ Humanity Libraries Project. It contains 260 publications (28,000 pages) of ideas, experiences and solutions in the fields of Food and Nutrition, Food Policy, Nutrition Research, including the Food and Nutrition Bulletin."

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NLM Gateway Search
"The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE."
National Library of Medicine

Nutrient Data Laboratory
"The USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL) is responsible for providing information on the nutrient content of foods consumed in the United States. NDL develops and maintains a number of different databases including the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR) and the Primary Data Set for USDA Nationwide Food Surveys (PDS)."
Agricultural Research Service, USDA

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services - www.health.gov
"...is a portal to the Web sites of a number of multi-agency health initiatives and activities of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and other Federal departments and agencies."



 

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