ONLINE Resources
Cardiovascular Heart Disease
- Mended Hearts
- American Heart Association
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Kawasaki Disease Foundation
Prevention
Risk factors
High Cholesterol (Hyperlipidemia)
High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
- British Hypertension Society Validated Blood Pressure Monitors List
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure With DASH
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: Your Guide to Lowering High Blood Pressure
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: Blood Pressure Tables for Children and Adolescents
- Measuring physical activity intensity: Perceived exertion (Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion Scale)
Nutrition and Healthy Eating
- Exiling the Happy Meal
- CFASN Constituent Update: FDA Posts Revised Questions and Answers on Acrylamide
- Mediterranean Diet Pyramid
- Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with DASH
- Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Use by Children and Adolescents (NHANES)
- Institute of Medicine: Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up?
- Center for Science in the Public Interest: Obesity on the Kids Menus at Top Chains
- Americans Consume Too Much Salt
- BBC online: Broccoli may undo diabetes damage
- Diabetes online: Activation of NF-E2-related factor-2 reverses biochemical dysfunction of endothelial cells induced by hyperglycemia linked to vascular disease
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
- Latin American Diet Pyramid
- Reduction in consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with weight loss: the PREMIER trial
- President's Food Safety Working Group
Healthy cooking
Healthy diets
Healthy menus and shopping strategies
- USDA National Organic Program
- My Pyramid menu planner
- Shopping list
- Recipes and tips for healthy, thrifty meals
Nutrition basics
- United States Department of Agriculture, MyPyramid.gov: Steps to a Healthier You
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Nutritional supplements
Diabetes
- National Diabetes Education Initiative
- Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry (CITR)
- American Diabetes Association: Living with diabetes & Employment discrimination
- Children With Diabetes
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- National Diabetes Education Program
- Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet
- American Diabetes Association
- The Hormone Foundation
- American Diabetes Association: Diabetes EXPO
- National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases
- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: Portion Distortion
- American Diabetes Association: Connect with others
Metabolic syndrome