General
- 50 Secrets Food Manufacturers Don’t Tell You That Could Change the Way You Eat, Readers Digest
- Suppversity: Nutrition and Exercise Science
- Vitamin D Podcast: Vitamin D: The More We Know, the Less We Know (15:24)
- Buy organic and low in Pesticide list: EWG's 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce
- Food Politics: Insightful articles about the food, politics and policy.
- Human Ancestors Were Nearly All Vegetarians: Paleolithic diets have become all the rage, but are they getting our ancestral diet all wrong?
- Harvard School of Public Health, The Nutrition Source: Knowledge for Healthy Eating. Contrasts current research against USDA propaganda.
- Nutritiondata.com: larger food database than the USDA, includes information on fast foods and food additives, and provides some useful tools for analyzing your diet.
- Interactive Menu Planner: National Institutes of Health. Select daily food and meal choices based on one day's calorie allowance.
- Ask the Dietitian: A wealth of classical dietary and nutrition information.
- Nutrition Action Healthletter: Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). Web articles since March 1996.
- National Council Against Health Fraud: web articles since January 1993.
- Sports Science Exchange: Gatorade Sports Science Institute.
- FDA Consumer Magazine: web articles since July 1995.
- United States Department of Agriculture USDA Guidelines
- Nutrition Database: search nutrition database online or set up to search your PDA or PocketPC or go to direct link: Nutrition Database
- Diet History Questionnaire: National Cancer Institute's comprehensive food frequency survey. Free diet analysis software.
- Meals for You: recipes based on diet, taste, time, nutrition, health, and value. Includes ADA Exchange Lists.
- High Fructose Corn Syrup: risks of over consumption.
- Carbs & Fat: Friends After All: debunking the idea of not eating carbs and fats in one meal.
- Food Inc Movie: You'll never look at dinner the same way.
- Eat Wild: Find local farmers that sell all-natural, delicious, grass-fed products.
- Food Lab: University of Illinois online diet analysis.
- Xylitol vs. Erythritol: Which Is the Healthier Sugar Substitute?
- Dr Di Pasquale: Audio interview suggesting no carbohydrates in post-workout meal extends anabolic window.
- AnatomicallySpeaking.com Store: books, charts, software, displays, and counseling tools for nutritionists.
Dietary Fats
- Foods that improve blood lipids: Fish and Omega 3 Fatty Acids. Also recommended: soybeans, canola, walnut and flaxseed, and their oils.
- Reducing Fat in Cooked Ground Beef (PDF): reduce high fat ground beef to only 45 Cal per ounce.
- Canola Oil Is Not Poison: Dr. Ornish says "Don’t believe the scary rumors about canola oil".
Supplements
- Examine: Analysis of the scientific research on supplements and nutrition
- HMB Video Presentation: Effects of Beta-Hydroxy-Beta-Methylbutyrate on Skeletal Muscle Size and Strength Across Varying Levels of Age, Sex and Training Experience
- CSPInet: USP approval on vitamins pass of quality, strength and purity.
- NutraSanus: Natural health, herbal, vitamin and nutritional supplements; non-commercial information
Hormone Disruptors
- Nova: Tale of Two Mice: 5 part video presentation of the agouti sisters and how environmental contaminants can cause epigenetic damage resulting in varying genetic expressions including obesity, aging, and disease.
- PBS Front Line: Fooling with Nature
- Consumer Reports
- BPA in Canned Foods: view video and navigate to other pages, 'In this report' (upper left)
- Plastic Ingredient: A new focus on plastic ingredient in bottles and cans.
- Hormone Mimics (Endocrine Disruptors): They're in Our Food. Should We Worry?
- Environmental Working Group: Letter to Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
- The Pitch: Missouri biologist Frederick vom Saal and his team exposed the dangers of bisphenol A — and earned the wrath of the plastic industry.
- Environmental Working Group: Bisphenol A: Toxic Plastics Chemical in Canned Food: BPA is at unsafe levels in one of every 10 servings of canned foods
- Scientific America: Plastic (Not) Fantastic: Food Containers Leach a Potentially Harmful Chemical
- Science Daily: Endocrine Disruptors In Common Plastics Linked To Obesity Risk
- OurStolenFuture.org: BPA affects fibroblast conversion to adiposites: How plastics contribute to our obesity epidemic
- US Today: Everywhere chemicals' in plastics alarm parents
- Eco Child's Play: Canned Food and BPA
- Seattle Post Intelligencer: Are plastic bottles dangerous?
- Endocrine/Estrogen Letter: Bisphenol A Concerns Survey (pdf)
- WIT eLibrary: Bisphenol A contamination of wastepaper, cellulose and recycled paper products
- Mindfully.org: Get Plastic Out Of Your Diet
Also see Gut Bacteria and Environmental Estrogens links.
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