Open Directory - Health: Nutrition: Nutrients
See also: This category in other languages: - Offers information and practical advice about fish oil, omega 3, and fatty acids. - Includes information about vitamins, minerals, herbs, bee products and antioxidants. - Study on the use of calcium and vitamin D for preventing hip fractures. - 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. - Explanation of the fatty acids that are healthy. Omega-3, Omega-6, and Omega-9 fatty acids and which foods they can be found in. - Summaries of the latest research on the health benefits of the omega-3 content of fish oils. - 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. - Includes information on food additives and food ingredients such as enumbers, emulsifiers, flavorings, colorings, functional foods, and preservatives. - Information about effects of vitamins and minerals in the body with reference listings for individual nutrients. - Discover nutrient contents and see if you're getting the RDA. - Provides research findings, mechanism of action, and details of suppliers. - Discusses the effects of hydrogenated oils in the human diet, with numerous references to scientific studies. - Help to define the best fat for your own food application. - Has listing of foods with saturated fat, cholesterol, and calories. Provides menus with fat and caloric content and nutritional values. - Information regarding the roles of vitamins, minerals, other nutrients, dietary phytochemicals, and some foods in preventing disease and promoting health. - 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. - Has calorie and fat gram chart for 1000 foods sorted by carbohydrates, cholesterol, protein, and fat listed alphabetically. Provides health and fitness links. - Free nutrition software for Linux and DOS, which records and analyzes meals with the USDA nutrient database. - 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. - 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. - 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. Includes notes on wild African, Asian, and European edible plants. - Directory of information on nutritional supplements, herbal supplements and health concerns. - Downloadable data sets prepared by the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory with nutrient values of foods. - 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. - Online nutrient database of over 66,000 raw, cooked and packaged foods. - Fat profile, studies on the effect of pecans and other nuts on blood profiles. From the National Pecan Shellers Association, USA - Information on soy, soy products, and legumes. Nutrient charts for common legumes, discussion of allergies, phytochemicals, and protective effects. - Advocates the use of whey proteins in nutrition. Describes nutrition facts and functions complete proteins have in diet.
