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NIH Consensus Statement on Multivitamin/Mineral Supplements and Chronic Disease Prevention
About NutriWatch
- Mission Statement (updated 6/11/01)
- About Drs. Barrett and Kroger posted 3/20/00)
Nutrition Basics
- The Digestive Process (revised 5/23/00)
Guidelines
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans
- History of the Guidelines (revised 6/26/00)
- Full Text of Dietary Guidelines 2000 (589K PDF document, posted 6/26/00)
- Dietary Guidelines 2000 Advisory Committee Report (link to committee site)
- Previous Food Guides (link to USDA site)
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 (link to HealthierUS site)
- American Heart Association: New Dietary Guidelines (link to AHA site)
- Healthy People 2010 Nutrition Objectives (posted 2/24/00)
- NIH Consensus Statement on Multivitamin/Mineral Supplements and Chronic Disease Prevention (posted 8/30/06)
- Obesity: Clinical Guidelines (link to NHLBI Web site)
- My Pyramid.gov: Steps to a Healthier You (link to USDA Web site)
- USDA Interactive Healthy Eating Index (dietary assessment)
Foods and Nutrition
- Functional Foods: Their Role in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (posted 6/17/99)
- Miscellaneous News (updated 4/29/00)
- "Organically Grown" Foods (revised 10/22/02)
- Soy: Health Claims for Soy Protein (link to FDA Consumer)
- Silly Statements about Powdered Milk (posted 7/25/07)
Food Safety and Technology
- Food Safety: What Are the Real Issues? (posted 6/6/05)
- FDA Pesticide Program Residue Monitoring, 1993-1999
- FDA Review of the Safety of Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin (rbST)
- Genetically Engineered Foods Should NOT Bear Special Labels (posted 1/2/00)
- Irradiation of Food: IFT Scientific Status Summary (posted 10/20/05)
- Microwave Oven Safety: USDA Fact Sheet (posted 12/28/07)
- Food Safety and Technology Links (updated 8/12/02)
- Don't Feed Honey to Infants (posted 4/26/01)
- Index of Supplement and Herbal Product Recalls (link to another site)
- UK Food Standards Agency Publishes Organic Review (posted 8/4/09) NEW
Public Health Issues
- Fluoridation Update (MMWR reprint, posted 3/20/00)
- FDA Action Plan to Confront America's Obesity Problem (link to FDA site)
Regulatory Issues
- Dietary Supplements: An Advertising Guide for Industry [Summary] [HTML] [PDF]
- FDA Food Labeling Guide (link to another site)
- FDA Urged to Halt Sale of Foods with Added Herbal Ingredients (posted 7/22/00)
- Health and Nutrient Content Claims (link to FDA Web site)
- How the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 Weakened the FDA (updated 7/6/00)
- Improvements Needed in Overseeing Dietary Supplements and "Functional Foods" (GAO report) (posted 7/22/00)
- Trans Fatty Acids: Labeling Proposed by FDA (posted 3/31/00)
- U.S. House Government Reform Committee Hearing on Dietary Supplements (3/10/06)
Misleading Ads
- Coral Calcium (link to Quackwatch)
- FTC Warning: Misleading Ads for Children's Dietary Supplements (posted 5/1/00)
- FTC Advertising Cases Involving Weight-Loss Products and Services, 1927-1997
- Misleading Ads from the Florida Department of Citrus (posted 5/11/00)
- "80% of Doctors Take Antioxidants" (link to Quackwatch)
- Clarified Butter (Ghee): Is It a health food? (link to Quackwatch
- "Recommend Centrum to Bridge Nutrition Gaps" (link to Quackwatch)
- FTC Chairman Urges Cable TV Executives to Curb Deceptive Weight-Loss Ads (link to FTC site)
- Deception in Weight-Loss Advertising: FTC Staff Report [Summary] [Full Report]
Information Sources
- Advice in Health Food Stores: Don't Trust It! (link to Quackwatch)
- Confessions of a Former Women's Magazine Writer (posted 3/26/00)
- Where to Get Reliable Nutrition Advice (link to Quackwatch)
Links to Reliable Nutrition Web Sites
- Agricultural Research Service Nutrient Data Laboratory: Food composition data
- American Dietetic Association
- Center for Global Food Issues
- ConsumerLab: Reports on product quality
- Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)
- Dietary Supplements Labels Database: Brands, ingredients, references
- FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
- Institute of Food Technologists Scientific Status Summaries
- Iowa State University Food Safety Project
- National Cholesterol Education Program
- National Dairy Council
- Nutrition Perspectives: Bimonthly newsletter of the University of California Extension Division
- Office of Dietary Supplements Fact Sheets
- USDA Dietary Supplement Page
- USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
Antiquackery Web Sites
- American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)
- Chirobase (Quackwatch's skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices)
- MLM Watch (Quackwatch's guide to multilevel marketing)
- National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF)
- Nutra-Smart.net
- Quackwatch (Comprehensive guide to health fraud, quackery, and intelligent consumer decisionmaking)
- Skeptics Dictionary (over 300 topics)
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