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Eat Your Way to Five a Day!
This resource presents guidelines to follow to help you make healthy food choices and get the nutrients from fruits and vegetables that your body needs.
Other
Supralife International: Colloidal Minerals, B Complex?
This site provides a brief description of vitamin B complex. Includes information on topics such as the function of the vitamin and recommended daily allowances.
Other
Zinc an Essential Mineral
This site promotes the benefits on zinc and other not so well-known minerals; calcium is best known. Discusses the importance of zinc, and the types of food zinc is found.
Other
Life Extension: Macular Degeneration (Age Related)
This resource gives an overview of age-related Macular Degeneration. Includes a list of Nutritional Recommendations and Vitamins.
Curated OER
Vitamin C, Antioxidant
This site is a discussion of vitamin C and antioxidants. Includes functions and benefits of vitamin C, antioxidant theory, osteoarthritis, diabetes, and atherosclerosis.
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts: Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese
This brief article from the University of Massachusetts provides information on the nutritional values of milk products. Take a three-question quiz to test your knowledge of the milk food group.
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Web Health Centre: Food at Work
Read about the roles of protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals. Learn what kinds of foods are "Body builders," "Energy givers," and "Protectors," and tailor your diet so that you are getting the nutrients you need to...
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source on Line: Infant Formula: Second Best but Good Enough
Offers information about infant formula including vitamins, preparation, and storage.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Heart Healthy Foods
Resource provides great information on the topic of heart healthy foods. The site is fairly in-depth with links scattered throughout for additional information on related subjects.
Other
Moms Team: Food Sources for Calcium
Here is a chart listing several calcium-rich foods (from all major food groups) and the amount of calcium they have (in micrograms) per serving. Use this chart to keep track of how much calcium you take in each day.
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Chloride
Know what chloride is and how it benefits the human body. Find natural sources to add chloride to daily meals.
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Phosphorus
Find out how humans can acquire phosphorus and why it is important to the body.
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Molybdenum
An essential mineral, this entry introduces the value and sources of molybdenum and lists what happens when a body is deficient or has too much of it.
Curated OER
Nutrition, Health & Heart Disease
This website provides information about nutrition, health, and heart disease. It also discusses specific types of vitamin and mineral supplements you can take to improve or maintain your health.
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts: Fruits
This website from the University of Massachusetts briefly explains the nutritional values of fruits and provides examples of fruits. Take a quiz on this food group to test your knowledge.
Curated OER
Genetically Modified Rice
Scientists inserted daffodil genes and other genetic material into ordinary rice to make this golden rice. The result is a strain of rice that provides vitamin A, a nutrient missing from the diets of many people who depend on rice as a...