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Natural Food: Grains Beans and Seeds
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Covers legumes and seeds and their role in the human diet through human evolution. Focuses on the legume, grain, and seed species worldwide, and is particularly relevant to the legume/grain debate in reference to human biochemistry.
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Natural Food: Fruit
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Discusses how we came to be eating the small range of fruits we now eat, and the relative nutritional and protective strengths of commercially available fruit.
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Soy Info Online
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Information on soy, soy products, and legumes. Nutrient charts for common legumes, discussion of allergies, phytochemicals, and protective effects.
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Natural Food: Vegetables
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A discussion of the nutritional values of vegetables during human evolution and today; including the importance of tubers, roots, corms, rhizomes and bulbs during evolution. Extensive notes on wild African, Asian, and European edible plants.
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Food Additives and Ingredients Association
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Includes information on food additives and food ingredients such as enumbers, emulsifiers, flavorings, colorings, functional foods, and preservatives.
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Nutrient Data Laboratory Food Composition Data
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Downloadable data sets prepared by the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory with nutrient values of foods.
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Foods and Nutrition Solutions
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Information on food buying, preparation, preservation, safety, storage, and nutritive analysis.
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Conjugated Linoleic Acids
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Information from the University of Wisconsin detailing research papers on this subject. A PDF file of research summaries is available for download.
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Lutein - The Vision Carotenoid
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Simple and clear information on role of lutein, a plant carotenoid deficient in most western diets, in vision, especially the prevention of 'age-related macular degeneration', as well as overall health, from the 'Lutein Information Bureau' in USA.
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Pecans, Nutritional Content.
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Fat profile, studies on the effect of pecans and other nuts on blood profiles. From the National Pecan Shellers Association, USA
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Fish Oils
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Summaries of the latest research on the health benefits of the omega-3 contentof fish oils.
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Mike's Calorie and Fat Gram Chart
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Has calorie and fat gram chart for 1000 foods sorted by carbohydrates, cholesterol, protein, and fat listed alphabetically. Provides health and fitness links.
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Fish Oils in Health and Disease
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Collected articles describing current scientific research relating to the benefits of fish oil and fish consumption, including benefits of fish oil for various conditions and diseases.
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Egg Nutrition Center
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Scientific information for nutritionists and health care providers to learn about eggs and good nutrition. Has list of research and scientific studies done an eggs online.
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Lycopene
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A comprehensive resource on lycopene and its health benefits including current research, media releases, and recipes.
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Whey Protein Institute
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Advocates the use of whey proteins in nutrition. Describes nutrition facts and functions complete proteins have in diet.
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Phytochemicals: Vitamins of the Future?
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Describes phytochemicals, identifies the foods in which they are found, and suggest ways to obtain them from a diet.
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Food Supplements
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Information about effects of vitamins and minerals in the body with reference listings for individual nutrients.
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Life Research Universal- Health Department
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Has listing of foods with saturated fat, cholesterol, and calories. Provides menus with fat and caloric content and nutritional values.
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Beef Nutrition
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Nutrient data for the different cuts of beef from The Canadian Beef Industry.
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Food Find
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Nutritional values for common foods.
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International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorder
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A non-profit, non-government organization for the sustainable elimination of iodine deficiency and the promotion of optimal iodine nutrition worldwide.
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FoodGenius.com
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Discover nutrient contents and see if you're getting the RDA.
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Nutry: Free Nutrition Software
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Free nutrition software based on USDA nutrient database.
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The fats for foods consultant
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Help to define the best fat for your own food application.
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Nutritional analysis software
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Developer of nutritional analysis software. Includes WISP intake analyser, QBUILDER questionnaire development tool, CARAT recipe analysis.
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Nutrients in Soyabeans
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A brief summary on the nutritional composition of soyabeans.
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NutriSolutions
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Information about antioxidants as an alternative treatment for various types of cancer.
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The Nutrition Guide
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Comprehensive breakdown of all the nutritional elements of more than 6000 foods.
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NUT Nutrition Software
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Free nutrition software for Linux and DOS, which records and analyzes meals with the USDA nutrient database.
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Nutritional Supplements
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Information about nutritional supplements such as SAM-e, calcium pyruvate, bee propolis, phosphatidylserine, casein, and chromium picolinate.
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NutrientFacts.com
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Offers online nutrition tools that generate nutrition facts labels for any food or recipe. Provides a nutrient almanac designed to aid in planning a healthy, balanced diet.
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NutraSanus
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Directory of information on nutritional supplements, herbal supplements and health concerns.
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AllNutritionals.com
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Includes information about vitamins, minerals, herbs, bee products and antioxidants.
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Nutrition Facts
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Information about carbohydrates, fats, trans-fats, sugars, proteins, and other nutritional information about thousands of foods.
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NutrientFinder.com
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Online nutrient database of over 66,000 raw, cooked and packaged foods.
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Fish Oil Blog
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News and commentary on the latest developments and benefits of fish oil and omega-3 fatty acids.
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Calcium and Vitamin D
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Study on the use of calcium and vitamin D for preventing hip fractures.
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Glyconutrients Reference
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Provides research findings, mechanism of action, and details of suppliers.
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Nutrient Data Laboratory Food Composition Data
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Downloadable data sets prepared by the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory with nutrient values of foods.
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