Research Guides: Accelerated Nutritional Biochemistry: Selected Nutrition Websites

Marion Nestle's Food Politics

Food Politics
Excellent posts about food safety and nutrition from Marion Nestle, the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University.

Choose My Plate
The United States Department of Agriculture's nutrition education site offers links to nutrition databases, diet plans, and personal health tracking applications.
Nutrition.gov
Links to nutrition sites produced by U.S. government scientists and educators.

Energy and protein requirements: World Health Organization Technical Report Series 724
Seminal report on human energy and protein requirements, originally published in 1985.
Human energy requirements: Report of a Joint FAO/WHO/UNU
Released in 2001, this report reviewed the 1985 WHO report.
Human Vitamin and Mineral Requirements
Available in html and pdf, published by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2002.
WHO e-Library of Evidence for Nutrition Actions (eLENA)
A series of reports on nutritional recommendations and the evidence for those recommendations.

Growth and Metabolism
Includes 1) Basics of Metabolism, 2) Digesting Food, 3) Growth Curves, 4) Cycle of Malnutrition totaling approximately 40 minutes of video. Hosted on the Khan Academy site.