Foodfit.com - Visit
Site
This new website was founded by Ellen Haas, a former official at USDA and well known food and nutrition advocate. The site's advisory board members are many well known experts in the fields of food, nutrition, and health. The site's goal is to help you lead a healthier life. The web site provides several interactive activities-Menu Planner, Pantry
Stocker, and Calculators, and Recipe Search. The Marketplace offers handpicked health and nutrition books. You can become a Foodfit member and receive a
newsletter.
American Diabetes
Association - Visit
Site
You'll find basic information about nutrition, daily nutrition tips, how to Find a Dietitian, and find your way to many food and nutrition related web sites. You'll also find the Good Nutrition Reading List, which is a list of excellent books about food, nutrition and healthy eating. Many of these books
are written by RDs.
American Dietetic
Association - Visit
Site
You'll find basic information
about nutrition, daily nutrition tips, how to Find a Dietitian,
and find your way to many food and nutrition related web
sites. You'll also find the Good Nutrition Reading list,
which is a list of excellent books food, nutrition and healthy
eating. Many of these are written by RDs.
Cyber Diet -
Visit Site
This website offers
information and motivation geared toward helping you adopt
a healthier lifestyle. Many hands on activities make it
a fun website. You can calculate your body mass index, find the
nutrient values of more than 8,000 foods, and develop an individualized
meal plan, participate in live events and chat rooms.
Diabetes 123
- Visit Site
Formerly childrenwithdiabetes.com,
diabetes123 has expanded their mission and business to provide
information about diabetes and related products and services
for all people with diabetes.
Mayo Clinic -
Visit Site
The Tufts Navigator
ranks this site as "Among the Best." In the Nutrition
Center you can read headline nutrition news, read answers
to nutrition questions from the Mayo Dietitians, test your
nutrition know-how, use a virtual cookbook and use their recipe
search.
MyDiabetes.com
- Visit Site
This website offers
information about how to manage and stay healthy with diabetes
as well as providing you with an opportunity to e-mail diabetes
experts for advise on fine tuning your diabetes control. The
service is free! You just need to sign on with your e-mail and password.
National Institutes
of Health - Visit
Site
This is the website
of the Diabetes Division of the National Institutes of Health.
It is packed with basic and advanced information about all
aspects of taking care of
diabetes and its related complications. Information about topics of diabetes
research is also a feature.
Tufts University
School of Medicine - Visit
Site
This is a unique website
sponsored by Tufts University School of Medicine, well known
for it's nutrition research and excellent advise. The site
evaluates and ranks the quality of food, nutrition and health
related websites. This is a great place to start your search
for reliable sites.
U.S. Department
of Agriculture - Visit
Site
This is a great resource
if you want to know what the government is doing to promote
healthy eating in the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
or if you want to learn more about the programs of the Food and
Nutrition Information Center. You can access as well as
download the well known USDA nutrient database.
Find a Dietitian within
the AADE
To find a dietitian with expertise in diabetes in your area visit the
American Association of Diabetes
Educators site and follow the geographical prompts to narrow down
your area.
Find a Dietitian with
the American Dietetic Assoc.
To find a dietitian in your area visit eatright.org.
Locate the "Find a Dietitian" input box on the home page
and input your zip code and a few other details to get the names of several dietitians.
Find a ADA Diabetes Education Program
To find an American Diabetes Association Recognized Diabetes Education Program in your area
visit this
site. Each of these programs employs dietitians with expertise in diabetes.
The books I've chosen to recommend and encourage you to purchase are all written by registered dietitians. If you have a book written by a registered dietitian that you want to suggest I review for possible addition, please e?mail me the title and author at
hope@hopewarshaw.com. Locate other excellent books and resources about diabetes and/or nutrition at
ADA Book Store
and the ADA Good Nutrition Reading List.
Nutrition
The American Dietetic Association's Complete Food and Nutrition Guide
by Roberta Larson Duyff
Written by a registered dietitian in an upbeat, personal style, this comprehensive guide offers quick access to timely advice on a multitude of food and nutrition topics. Scattered throughout are "nutrition checkups," answers to common food and nutrition questions, and tips for reading labels and planning meals.
Dieting for Dummies
by Jane Kirby
Written by a registered dietitian, this book is chockfull of practical advice on how to end the confusion over battling the bulge, not by offering a magic bullet, but by providing a weight loss and exercise plan that is meant to last a lifetime. The book includes tips on using healthful cooking techniques, restaurant eating, and reading food labels.
Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook
by Nancy Clark
A renowned sports nutritionist and registered dietitian shares advice she gives to athletes to enhance performance and promote good health. The book discusses strategies for weight control, exercise and training, avoiding eating disorders, and more. It also includes 131 recipes with nutrient analyses.
Becoming Vegetarian: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Vegetarian Diet
by Vesanto Melina, Brenda Davis, Victoria Harrison
Written by three registered dietitians who are practicing vegetarians, this book is a guide for following a plantbased diet and defines vegetarianism and health implications, dispels myths, and lays out nutrition plans for all ages. It covers food procurement, handling, and preparation, and also includes a chapter of recipes with nutrient analyses.
Thin for Life: 10 Keys to Success from People who Have Lost Weight and Kept It Off
by Anne M. Fletcher
This is a motivational guidebook that combines strategies used by hundreds of people who have lost weight and kept it off. These are people Anne Fletcher gives the title "master." This book shatters myth after myth about weight control and shows you tactics to implement to beat the odds.
Diabetes
Exchanges for All Occasions: Your Guide to Choosing Healthy Foods Anytime Anywhere
by Marion Franz
The author is a registered dietitian with extensive expertise in diabetes management. This revised edition is based on the most current Exchange Lists for Meal Planning and incorporates carbohydrate counting as well. It features sample menus and comprehensive food lists, including ethnic and vegetarian foods.
101 Nutrition Tips for People with Diabetes
by Patti B. Geil and Lea Ann Holzmeister
This book is another in the American Diabetes Association's best-selling
101 Tips series. These two registered dietitians use their experience of what people want and need to know about nutrition and diabetes to answer the most common questions about diabetes and nutrition. You'll find handy tips on meal planning, general nutrition, managing medication and meals, shopping and cooking, weightloss, and more.
The Diabetes Carbohydrate and Fat Gram Guide
by Lea Ann Holzmeister
This book was written by a registered dietitian to help you identify the nutrient content of common and prepared foods. This book is particularly helpful if you are doing carbohydrate counting as your meal planning approach. The book contains basic nutrition information and the exchanges for thousands of foods common, brandname products and fast foods.
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