Guides: Nutrition and Dietetics: Websites

Consumer/patient resources

HealthDirect Australian government consumer health information portal.
NutritionData Lots of great nutrition tools. Information in ND comes from the USDA's National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference and is supplemented by listings provided by restaurants and food manufacturers.
Healthline: Healthy eating U.S. health advisory network
Health Talk UK website sharing patients' experiences. Includes audiovisual resources. Site covers around 50 illnesses and general health topics and for each topic around 30-50 people from different backgrounds and locations share their personal experience.

Recommended websites

USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory NDL has the responsibility to develop USDA's National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, the foundation of most food and nutrition databases in the US, used in food policy, research and nutrition monitoring...available to the public and scientific community.
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The Mission of the Nutrient Data Laboratory is "To develop authoritative food composition databases and state of the art methods to acquire, evaluate, compile and disseminate composition data on foods and dietary supplements available in the United States."
World Health Organization -Nutrition
National Health & Medical Research Council
Australia's peak body for health and medical research, for health advice; and for ethics in health care and in health and medical research
BioMed Central: Nutrition Gateway All BMC peer reviewed open access nutrition journals in one place.
ANFIL- Australian Native Food Industry Limited ANFIL is the peak national body which represents all interests in the rapidly growing Australian native food industry. links to information on induvidual native foods.
Food & Beverage Learning Center (Food technology) From ThermoFisher Scientific: Within the food and beverage learning center you will have access to all food and beverage analysis techniques available to the modern testing laboratory. We look at food microbiology testing, manufacturing and processing, food analytical and authenticity testing as well as beverage testing
Care-Collaborate-Connect. Suicide Prevention Training From the Uni of SA 8 module online competency-based training program. Students must receive an 80% pass on activities in each module to progress to the next module. It takes about 5 hours to complete.
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Person and strengths-focussed approach to working with patients and clients who are distressed, including those with suicidal ideation.
• Topics covered are: self-care, attending to distress, talking about suicide, coping planning, problem-solving, documentation, ethics and law, and self-management.
• Students who complete the program receive an Completion Certificate that can be used as evidence of completion.

Blogs of interest

Croakey- social journalism for health "...(Australian) forum for debate and discussion about health issues and policy."
Food Politics Topical blog from USA