DASH Diet Health Links

Healthy Eating

Read the new 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which recommends the DASH diet.

Learn about the new Dietary Reference Intakes from the National Academy of Sciences, which cover the RDAs and more, at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/000105.html

Learn how to read the food labels at the FDA web site.

Reach a healthy weight, with help from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

The DASH Diet and managing high blood pressure and heart disease

Find out how adding more fruits and vegetables to your diet can reduce blood pressure through the DASH diet (Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension), based on a National Institutes of Health multi-center trial. More information is at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/index.htm. Learn about the user-friendly book to support your efforts to adopt the DASH diet at http://dashdiet.org/dashdietbook.asp 

National Institutes of Health information on all facets of heart disease http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/index.htm

Smoking cessation

National Institutes of Health programs to support smoking cessation

http://health.nih.gov/result.asp/605

Avoiding alcohol abuse

The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/faq/q-a.htm

Calorie Counts at Restaurants

McDonald's

Starbucks

Burger King

Subway

Wendy's

Kids' health sites

Healthy eating for families, created by two dietitians who have written many nutrition books, and who focus on healthy eating for kids and their families.

BMI calculator for kids When you get to the new page, click on the graph  to access the calculator.

Kidnetic

Action for Healthy Kids

Nutrition magazine and website links

Today's Dietitian magazine, The magazine for nutrition professionals.

Today's Diet and Nutrition magazine,The Magazine for Food, Fitness, and Well-Being.

AlliedHealthCareers.com, The Premier Allied Health Employment site.
 

Recipes

Our DASH Diet recipe link page and . . .

Beef

Healthy beef recipes

Nutrition info on beef

Pork

Find healthy pork recipes

Here are several credible nutrition and health related sites for browsing.  Many include search engines to help you find a specific topic.

Organizations

• American Dietetic Association
• American Diabetes Association
• American College of Sports Medicine
• American Heart Association
• American Medical Association
• Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention
• Food and Drug Administration
• Illinois Dietetic Association
• National Library of Medicine PubMed, for on-line searching of medical literature
• National Institutes of Health
• West Virginia Dietetic Association

H1N1 News from the CDC