Diet, Nutrition & Lifestyle Changes: Internet Resources: Alternative Medicine

• American Association of Clincal Endocrinologists, Clinical Guideline: Medical Guidelines for the Clinical Use of Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals
• The American Council on Exercise: "the benefits of physical activity and protect the public against unsafe and ineffective fitness products and trends-- accomplishes this by setting certification and education standards for fitness instructors and through public education about the importance of exercise"
• American Dietetic Association: "the largest group of food and nutrition professionals in the United States. Open to those who meet academic and experience requirements established by the Association." Resources on dieting, dietray supplements, eating well, nutrition facts, healthy lifestyles and the Associations position papers.
• American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA): "support practitioners in their evolving personal and professional development as healers and to educate physicians about holistic medicine"
• Austin Nutritional Research: shopping site but provides reference guides for vitamins, herbs, amino acids, nutrients, minerals and daily recommendations.
• C for Yourself: resource for Vitamin C and "its therapeutic use in the treatment of many illnesses and conditions"
• The Center for Science in the Public Interest, "nonprofit education and advocacy organization that focuses on improving the safety and nutritional quality of our food supply": information on food safety, food additives and dietray supplements.
• ConsumerLab.com : independent teting of herbs and health & nutrition products for purity, potency, bioavailability, and consistency and gives an approved quality seal
• Consumer Reports Health: sections on exercise, nutrition, drugs and supplements
• Dietary Supplement Information Bureau from Dietary Supplement Education Alliance ™ (DSEA ™) which comprises American Herbal Products Association; Capsugel; Natrol.com; National Nutritional Foods Association; New Hope Natural Media/Penton Media, Inc; Nutricia USA (Rexall Sundown, GNC, & Unicity Network); Virgo Publishing, Inc.
• Dietfraud.com DietFraud HQ: Home of the best diet and weight loss scams and dubious treatments
• Holistic Healing Web Page: articles on nutrition, yoga, breathwork, toxic consumer products, conference and retreat listings, case histories of healings & transformation, important news items, holistic mailing list and USENET groups listings, practitioner directories
• The Holistic Health Page in English, German and Italian languages links to directories and home pages
• International Association of Hygienic Physicians "professional association for licensed, primary care physicians (MDs, DOs, Chiropractors, and Naturopaths)who specialize in therapeutic fasting supervision
• International Food Information Council Foundation: enhance consumer's abilities to make informed food choices.
• The Ketogenic Resource: "information on the ketogenic diet and related matters like epilepsy and cerebral palsy in young children. It is particularly intended for individuals in the United Kingdom"
• The Life Extension Foundation: described as a non profit organization dedicated to the pursuit of a longer healthier lifespan.
• National Agricultural Library
  • AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access): "bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature includes citations herbs and medicinal plants and includes references from The Herb Research Foundations' HerbalGram
  • The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC): dietary guidelines, dietary and herbal supplement resources, food composition and nutient data
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health
• National Library of Medicine
  • Bioavailability of Nutrients and Other Active Components of Dietary Supplements January 1966 through October 1999, Current Bibliographies in Medicine 99-4
  • Dietary Supplements Labels Database: information from the labels of dietary supplements in the marketplace, including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and other specialty supplements.information about ingredients in brand-name products, including name, form, active and inactive ingredients, amount of active ingredient/unit, manufacturer/distributor information, suggested dose, label claims, warnings, percentage of daily value, and further label information.
  • FAQ- Dietary Supplements, Complementary or Alternative Medicines
  • Medlineplus: "quality health care information from the world’s largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. MEDLINEplus is for anyone with a medical question. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on it for accurate, current, medical information."
    • Antioxidants
    • Cancer Alternative Therapy
    • Dietary Supplements
    • Exercise and Physical Fitness
    • Food and Nutrition Topics
    • Minerals
    • Nutrition
    • Vegetarianism
    • Vitamins
    • Weight Control
    • Wellness and Lifestyle Topics
• National Nutritional Foods Association: "represents the interests of some 3,000 retailers and 1,000 manufacturers, suppliers and distributors of health foods, dietary supplements, natural ingredient cosmetics and other natural products": maintains "industry's only self-regulatory testing program, which fosters quality assurance"
• Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health
  • Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Fact Sheets directly from the Clinical Nutrition Service
• Olive Oil and Health, SEVITEL, Greek Association of Industries and Processors of Olive Oil
• Organic Trade Association : growers, shippers, processors, certifiers, farmer associations, brokers, consultants, distributors and retailers.
• Self Development from The UNCAT Database, lists information on meditation, wellness, and self improvement.
• The Share Guide a magazine focusing on holistic health, personal growth and expanded consciousness.
• Therapeutic FASTING Worldwide Links: "tarting point for health professionals and patients seeking information on the therapeutic fasting. Although biologically-centered, it includes some links to other aspects of fasting (e. g. spiritual ones)."
• United Kingdom Food Standards Agency: "independent food safety watchdog set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public's health and consumer interests in relation to food"
• United States Food and Drug Administration
• Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
  • Dietary Supplement Strategy (Ten Year Plan) January 2000
  • The Special Nutritionals Adverse Event Monitoring System Note: This database/website has been removed. Read the information at Adverse Event Reporting Dietary Supplements, United States Department of Health and Human Services, United States Food & Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition

    Note: This site was rescued by thememoryhole.org at this address: http://www.thememoryhole.org/feds/fda-nutritionals.htm

Revision: January 2008.

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