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                              January 1996
                            Volume 1 Number 1 
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                   NUTRITION RESOURCES BULLETIN
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             Contents May be Circulated, Electronically and Otherwise

                        Resources Featured in this Issue:

Managing Food Allergy & Intolerance: A Practical Guide (DNS002) by 
          Janice Joneja, PhD, RD
          For Allergists, General Practitioners and Clinical, Food 
          Scientists, Inpatient, Outpatient and Private Practice 
          Dietitians, Dietetic Students, Medical Librarians.

How to Teach Nutrition to Kids by Connie Evers, RD
          For Teachers, Public Health Nutritionists 

The Food Dudes by Surrey, B.C. School District Teacher and Nutritionist
          For Teachers, Public Health Nutritionists

Dietitian's Resource Kit from the Canadian Celiac Association
          For Clinical, Outpatient and Private Practice Dietitians

Nutrition Resource Guidebook: Your Essential Guide to Nutrition 
           Resources 
           For librarians, dietitians, nutritionists, allied health 
           professionals, educators and secondary and postsecondary 
           food and nutrition students.

Becoming Vegetarian: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Vegetarian 
           Diet
           by Vesanto Melina, RD, Brenda Davis, RD and Victoria Harrison RD
           For Health and Food Professionals and the General Public

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                       DETAILED RESOURCE INFORMATION

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        Managing Food Allergy & Intolerance: A Practical Guide (DNS002) 
              by Janice Vickerstaff Joneja, PhD, RDN

Dr. Joneja is coordinator of the Allergy Nutrition Program at
Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre in British Columbia
and is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Family and Nutritional
Sciences at the University of British Columbia.  The Allergy 
Nutrition Program includes ....
        and so on...

    Resources are described in this section in tedious detail :-) 
    with ordering information and e-mail addresses for contacts.
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                            February 1996
                          Volume 1 Number 2 

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                   NUTRITION RESOURCES BULLETIN

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             Contents may be circulated, electronically or otherwise
                 as long as no charge is make for the information

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        WORLD WIDE WEB SITES FOR FOOD, NUTRITION AND FOOD SAFETY

The listing of WWW sites below does not constitute an endorsement of 
the information provided at any of the sites. Because of the nature of 
the World Wide Web, I can not check every link on every site to 
determine that all the information is up-to-date and reliable. Please 
use your own discretion using  any material found on the web sites. 

Please note that these World Wide Web addresses (URLs) may be case 
sensitive, that is, that upper and lowercase type in these addresses 
should be written exactly as shown below.  Whenever an URL must continue 
to next line, do not leave any spaces between letters. 

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INTERNATIONAL FOOD & NUTRITION WEB SITES:

http://www.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/~geoffs/index.htm 
    Professor Geoff Skurray's Food & Nutrition Information
    Center for Advanced Food Research at the University of Western 
    Sydney in Australia. Interesting information and links to other sites 
    in Australia as well as a good set of international food and 
    nutrition links.

http://spin.com.mx/~jledesma
    Mexico's Human Nutrition Institute Homepage
    Spanish introduction with mostly English links

<http://www.kc.lu.se/inl>
    Sweden's Lund University Nutrition and Food Chemistry Department.        

http://www.igc.org/iatp/
    Food Security information and links. Global Watch newsletter.

http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/~ltserv/engl-index.html
    Food Science Department, University of Hohenheim, Germany

http://www.ift.org/
    Institute of Food Technologists. Addresses for affiliates 
    around the world.

<http://www.foodsci.kvl.dk/>
    Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Denmark. 
    Interesting recipe section developed by two gentlement who 
    taught themselves to cook.

<http://honeybee.helsinki.fi/MMETT/MMETT.HTM>
    Food Science at the University of Helsinki in Finland.

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CONSUMER INFORMATION ABOUT DUBIOUS PRODUCTS PRACTICES

http://www.primenet.com/~ncahf/ 
    National Council Against Health Fraud(NCAHF) Home Page
    Documented information about food and nutrition quackery, court 
    proceedings, fraudulent practices and practicioners. Continually 
    updated.  Maintained by leading experts in the field. 

http://www.ftc.gov
    The U.S. Federal Trade Commission with much useful information
    and tips for consumers about dubious products and 
    practices often encountered on the internet.

http://www.foodallergy.org/index.html
    FAN (Food Allergy Network) Allergy alerts about food products online

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CANADIAN WEB SITES:

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http://www.hpb.ca:8080:8080/one
    ONE (Canadian - Organization for Nutrition Education) - primarily 
    registered dietitians, other nutrition educators and science 
    jounalists. 

http://aceis.agr.ca
    Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada  Electronic Information Service

http://www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca
    University of Guelph in Ontario

http://www.tripod.com/~ae858/index.html
    A health inspector in New Brunswick developed this set of links 
    on food and water safety.

http://www.sfu.ca
    Don't forget to visit us at Simon Fraser University in 
    beautiful British Columbia.

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UNITED STATES FOOD & NUTRITION WEB SITES:

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT:

http://www.nalusda.gov/homepage.html 
    The National Agricultural Library

http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic.html 
    Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC)
    of National Agriculture Library

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/index.html 
    Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Food Safety & 
    Applied Nutrition

http://www.gsa.gov/staff/pa/cic/cic.htm 
    Consumer Information Center

http://www.usda.gov/ 
    USDA Home Page

NEW DIETARY GUIDELINES FOR AMERICANS:

http://www.usda.gov/fcs/cnpp.html
http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic.html
http://www.nalusda.gov/answers/info_centers/fnic/Dietary/dgreport .html
     Please note the uppercase D in Dietary as it is necessary
     to make this URL to connect. 

     The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, issued every
     5 years by USDA and the Department of Health and
     Human Services (DHHS), are the U.S. Federal government's 
     policies on nutrition and health.

UNIVERSITY SITES IN THE UNITED STATES:

NUTRITION:

http://GNV.IFAS.UFL.EDU/ 
    University of Florida-Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

http://ag.arizona.edu/NSC/ADP/adp.html
    The Arizona page with good links to food and nutrition sites.

http://www.ksu.edu/~kknight/nutrition.html 
    The Kansas State University nutrition page 

http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dep/fnut/newslet.htm 
    F&N Digest - Kansas State Extension's foods and nutrition
    newsletter

http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/TopicgrEnv/USDA/USDAFoodCompositi
onData 
    USDA food composition tables and other information 
    At the University of Maryland at College Park inforM system

VEGETARIAN:

http://www.honors.indiana.edu/~veggie/recipes.cgi/ 
    Veggies Unite! Vegetarian diet information
    from Indiana University.

http://envirolink.org/arrs/VRG/home.html
    The Vegetarian Resource Group. Useful information from vegetarians,  
    including vegetarian dietitians.

FOOD LAW:

http://www.fsci.umn.edu/Food Law.html
    Very extensive collection of information on food laws concerns. 
    Extensive food and nutrition links.

FOOD SCIENCE AND FOOD SAFETY (U.S.):

http://www.agen.ufl.edu/~foodsaf/foodsaf.html 
    National Food Safety Database
    at the University of Florida

http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/FoodScience/links.html
      See list of HACCP Links

http://fs4.rutgers.edu
    Rutgers University Food Science Home Page

http://www.nysales.Cornell.edu/cifs/
    Cornell University Food Science

REGISTERED DIETITIANS:

http://www.dietetics.com 
    Dietetics Online. The registered dietitians group from America OnLine. 
    All dietitians are welcome to join to receive monthly newsletters 
    and special announcements via e-mail.  
    E-mail Nalani2970 at aol.com or GisaRD at aol.com to add your name 
    to their international subscription list of registered dietitians.

http://www.hpb.ca:8080:8080/one
    ONE (Canadian - Organization for Nutrition Education) - primarily 
    registered dietitians. 

http://www.alaska.net/~tne/ 
    The Nutrition Expert Telephone Counseling Service
    Registered dietitians group

http://crcdec.swmed.edu/~nagrd
    National Association of General Clinical Research Centers (GCRC) 
    Dietitians

MEDICAL NUTRITION SITES:

http://www.foodallergy.org/index.html
    FAN (Food Allergy Network) Valuable inforamtion about food 
    allergy with allergy alert notices about food products online

http://ns.gamewood.net/renalnet.html
     Renalnet -  renal information

http://members.aol.com/celiacusa/celiac.htm
     The Celiac Sprue Association (CSA/USA), Inc. home page.

http://www.hooked.net/users/sadams/
     A celiac web pages with good links.

http://www.uta.fi/~llmama/
    One of the primary groups in celiac research. Technical information.
    Information about the World Celiac Conference in Helsinki in 
    August, 1996.

http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/IBD.html
     Crohns and ulcerative colitis site.

GENERAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE:

http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~ksa878/wchb/wchads.htm
     Women's Health Issues by the American Women's Medical Association

http://www.exit109.com/~zaweb/pjp
     Health economics, health policy, medical and pharmacy resources.  
     Updated weekly. Lists of associations, WHO and CDC statistics. 

http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/mednew.html
     "Health & Medicine What's New Sources" at the University of Iowa

http://healthnet.ivi.com/
     Information for the general public from the Mayo Clinic

http://medsearch.com
      Site for jobseekers in the health sciences.

COMMERCIAL, FOOD INDUSTRY & COMMODITY SITES:

http://ificinfo.health.org/homepage.htm 
    International Food Information Council(IFIC) Foundation
    funded by the food industry

http://foodnet.fic.ca 
     Food Institute of Canada - funded by the Canadian food industry.

http://www.crcpress.com/fcn/titlepg.htm 
    Food Chemical News page

http://www.fooddude.com
    A food company with numerous commercial and government links

http://www.dole5aday.com/ 
    Dole 5 A Day    The Dole Company fruit company

http://www.netc.net.au/~trublue
    Geoff Deering, a blueberry grower in Australia, developed this site 
    which  offers blueberry recipes and health information about 
    blueberries.

CULINARY ARTS SITES:

http://westwind.be/gastronomy
       Informative culinary arts site in Brussels

http://www.ec-lyon.fr/Home.en/Rhone-Alpes/:yon/Art_de_vivre/Cuisine/main.htm
       Where else but Lyon, France.

http://www.epicurious.com
       Gourmet and Bon Appetit Magazines

http://sunsite.unc.edu.expo/restaurant/restaurant/.html
       Cordon Bleu Cooking School

http://www.vnr.com/cul.html
       Good links and mailing list information for culinary arts 
       professionals.

http://www.goodcooking.com
       Good links to universites, food and beverage sites.

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Addresses for University nutrition web sites are always welcome. 
I would like to expand the international list of nutrition sites. 
Please send URLs for good professional culinary arts sites as well.
This list will be recirculated periodically if it has 
changed substantially. 

Jean Fremont, RD                              jfremont at sfu.ca 

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Jean Fremont, R.D.               (e-mail: jfremont at sfu.ca)
School of Kinesiology
Faculty of Applied Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. Canada  V5A 1S6