Prevention and General Nutrition

 

 

 

Prevention and General Nutrition

 

General Health & Nutrition

American Association of Diabetes Educators
American Diabetes Association
American Dietetic Association
American Heart Association

Eat Right Nutrition Tips (American Dietetic Association)
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010
Food and Nutrition Information Center
Fruit & Veggies-More Matters
Health & Nutrition Letter: Tufts University
MyPlate
National Eating Disorders Association
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Library of Medicine (Medline)
Nutrition.gov
Vitamin D
(evidence based)
Vitamin D

Weight Control Information Network

Kids

Action for Healthy Kids
Children with Diabetes:
Resource guide for Wisconsin schools/ families
Children's Nutrition Research Center
DPI Child Nutrition
DPI School Nutrition

DPI Nutrition Education
Healthy Youth
Let’s Move Child Care
MyPyramid for Kids
Nutrition Explorations

Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls
USDA TEAM Nutrition
Wisconsin School Breakfast (Breakfast Scoop Newsletter)
Virtual Garden and Virtual Kitchen Nutrition Education for kids ages 8 to 14'. Note: Once at the site, have to log in to get to this section

Health Resources Provided by Universities
Harvard School of Public Health
Institute of Medicine
Linus Pauling Institute
UW-Extension Family Living Resources
Food Safety and Sanitation
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Food Safety- Food Facts for You
(UW-Madison)
Food Safety and Inspection Service
Food Safety Research Information Office- National Agricultural Library
Gateway to Government Food Safety Information
National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation
NSF- The Public Health and Saftey Company
Miscellaneous
Alliance for a Healthier Generation
American Botanical Council
Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services
Consumer Information Center
Farmers Markets
Department of Health Services
Healthfinder
Hearts N' Parks
Lighten Up Wisconsin
National Council Against Health Fraud
National Ctr for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Nutrition Facts Label - How to understand and use
NIH: Info about dietary supplements/botanicals
QuackWatch
SupplementWatch.com
UW Madison Steenbock Library
Wisconsin WIC Program
Food Allergies & Intolerances  
Ask Before You Eat-Food Allergies  
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network
Gluten Free -up to date info on gluten and gluten free products

Blog-KitchenTherapy-is a gluten free culinary and nutrition site geared to consumers, also has simple gluten free recipes. The blog is updated every Monday and Thursday.

 

 

 

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About the Wisconsin Dietetic Association

The Wisconsin Dietetic Association is the link to nutrition and health in Wisconsin. This professional organization promotes registered dietitians and dietetic technicians as the nutrition experts through membership, continuing education, and legislative activities.

Members specialize in a variety of nutrition services including: 

Weight Loss

  • Recommendations for losing weight safely
  • Diet pills and ins and outs of popular diets like weight watchers, atkins diet, zone diet, cabbage soup diet, low carbohydrate diet and others

Celiac Disease

  • Education on the safe grains and those that contain gluten
  • Tips to reading the label and making the right choices when planning one’s diet
  • Beyond food: cross contamination, medicines, over the counter products, etc… that may contain gluten

Healthy Lifestyle Promotion

  • Optimum health, wellness, chronic disease management, soy nutrition, food guide pyramid, vegetarian diets

Women's Health

  • Osteoporosis treatment and prevention, healthy menopause

Diabetes

  • Development of diabetic diet meal plans, diabetes diets and diabetes recipes
  • Carbohydrate (carb) counting

Sports Nutrition

  • Training diets and menus

Heart Disease

  • Development of low cholesterol diet menus, low fat recipes and low cholesterol diets

Cancer Nutrition

  • Cancer diet, cancer prevention, eating tips for cancer treatment

Complementary Medicine

  • Complementary therapies that include vitamin and mineral supplementation, botanicals and functional foods as well as mind/body approaches

Critical Care

  • Specialized nutrition support and critical care nutrition