Nutrition
Information from U.S. UniversitiesNutrition
Information from University-based USDA/ARS-CSREES Cooperative
Extension Services
- University
of Alaska Cooperative Extension -- List of publications
on a variety of food and nutrition topcs. Many available
on-line in Acrobat format.
- University
of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Articles on food
preservation, including canning, drying and freezing
fruits and vegetables.
- University
of California at Davis Cooperative Extension Online
catalog of education products, including a training
kit for health professionals on childhood obesity.
Most resources are for ordering, not downloading
- Colorado
State Cooperative Extension Food Publications This
Cooperative Extension department has a large list of
on-line publications, in areas of food safety, health
and guidelines, and food preparation and preservation.
Many are in PDF format.
- University
of Delaware Moderate set of nutrition, food safety
and preparation resources in plain text format.
- University
of Florida Cooperative Extension Academic program
information, links. Otherwise most resources are for
ordering, not downloading.
- University
of Georgia Cooperative Extension The site is nicely
laid out, and has newsletter, links and about two dozen
food science and nutrition publications (in plain text
listed by subject and title.)
- University
of Idaho Extension Limited collection of articles
on food and nutrition.
- University
of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Extension Good
range of nutrtion resources. The documents
are in Acrobat (.pdf) format, which makes them a good
resource to print off, for example a nice dietary pyramid.
The main university agriculture departmet site also
features a nutrition
analysis tool, energy calculator and a soy foods finder.
- Kansas
State: Extension Foods and Nutrition One of the
most extensive university-based web sites and also
features a list of
other university Extension Departments' resources.
Its own site features newsletter
F&N Digest, extensive list of on-line nutrition
pamphlets (in Acrobat format), links to
more than 350 general nutrition web sites, cupboard
and fridge storage charts, and ingredient substitution
information.
- University
of Kentucky Links, Extension
Today newsletter.
- Michigan
State Extension offers a searchable Michigan
State Univ. Extension Food & Nutrition Bulletin.
- University
of Minnesota Extension Nutrition
Notes. The University
of Minnesota also offers
a nutrient
content database for approximately 6,000 foods,
a calorie calculator.
- University
of Missouri,Columbia Extension
Excellent
collection of extension material includes:
- University
of Nebraska Extension Publications In addition
to a fairly extensive
collection of food and nutrition articles, this site
features the email
newsletter Food
Reflections,
which provides "a short "how-to" message
on food, nutrition, or food safety for health professionals,
educators, and consumers."
- Ohio
State University Extension Service: Ohioline Lots
of facts heets in the areas of food, food safety, healthy
eating.
- Oregon
State Extension Service Features materials for
educators working with low income and low
literacy groups and a web-based learning program on
nutrition and food budgeting.
- Purdue
University Cooperative Extension Wide range of
food safety materials as well as around 30 general
family nutrition pamphlets. The publications
available on these topics are in Acrobat format.
- Virginia
Cooperative Extension - Collection of plain
text articles on a variety of food and nutrition topics.
- Washington
State University Extension Features Eat Better,
Eat Together Tool Kit -- Ideas for Promoting Positive
Family Meals
Links to other web
sites are considered an extended service but are not
controlled or endorsed by the CNRC or Baylor College
of Medicine.
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