Foods & Nutrition: Organizations

Committed to improving health and advancing the profession of dietetics through research, education and advocacy.

Provides a multitude of statistics, tools, and information on cancer.

Extensive information on diabetes care and clinical recommendations.

Under Food and Nutrition Information are many fact sheets on topics such as fats, oils and sweeteners.

Information on preventing heart attack and stroke.

Product alerts, commonly asked questions about food allergies, and more

Includes Food, Nutrition and Agriculture, FAO's on-line journal about nutrition, food quality and safety and also reports on food composition, nutrition education, biotechnology, etc.

Healthy weight loss and obesity publications, and a link to the Weight-control Information Network (WIN) from NIDDK.(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases is part of the National Institutes of Health)

Quackwatch, Inc., a member of Consumer Federation of America, is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Site has many articles about evaluating different nutrition products and also has a searchable database

SNEB is an international community of professionals actively involved in nutrition education and health promotion.