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Nutrition Links

General Information:

• 5-a-Day for Better Health
• American Dietetic Association
• Ending Hunger, Inc.
• Federal Consumer Information Center
• Partnership for Healthy Weight Management
• Tufts University Nutrition Navigator
• United Nations
• USDA Team Nutrition
• U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2000
• World Health Organization

Information for Health Professionals and FCHS Educators:

• American Botanical Council
• American Dietetic Association
• Cook College Department of Nutritional Sciences
• FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
• Food and Nutrition Information Center
• Healthy People 2010
• International Food Information Council
• Tufts University Nutrition Navigator

Interactive Self-Analysis:

• USDA Interactive Healthy Eating Index
• Partnership for Healthy Weight Management BMI Calculator: BMI or Body Mass Index along with waist size is used to determine your personal health risk relative to normal weight. Are you at risk for health problems due to a high BMI?"

Online PBS Presentations on Nutrition and Health Topics:

• "Fat": How modern life, biology, and genetics influence our relationship with food.
• "Dying to Be Thin": A film that examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia.

Ask the Experts:

• The American Dietetic Association Hotline
• USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline: 1-800-535-4555
  or
• Call the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension family and community health sciences educator in your county