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NutritionData.Com
Site description by owners:

NutritionData (ND) generates nutrition facts labels and provides simplified nutritional analyses for all foods and recipes.
ND tells you what's good and bad about the foods you eat, and helps you select foods that best meet your dietary needs.
Search ND's 6,742-food database by food name.
Expand your nutritional knowledge:
Use ND's Nutrient Search Tool to find the foods that are lowest in carbohydrates, highest in protein, or that match any other dietary restrictions or goals.
Use ND's Custom Entry Tool to analyze foods that aren't in ND's database.
Translate confusing ingredient labels with ND's Food Additive Identifier.
Examine ND's list of the 50 Most Popular Foods.

 
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PCRM: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Description provided at the site:
What is PCRM?
Doctors and laypersons working together for compassionate and effective medical practice, research, and health promotion.

Prevention
PCRM promotes preventive medicine through innovative programs:

    * PCRM has led the way for reforms of federal nutrition policies. 
    * Our clinical research programs are breaking new ground in diabetes, cancer, and other serious conditions. 
    * PCRM’s Cancer Project has provided vital information to tens of thousands of people. 
    * The New Four Food Groups is PCRM’s innovative proposal for a federal nutrition policy that puts a new priority on health. 
    * Our public service announcement series feature medical experts on prevention and health. 
 

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Dr. Koop's Community
Definitely one of the best health sites on the Web.

Description provided at the site:
What is Dr. Koop's Community?
        Empower Health
        Dr. Koop's Community is a project of Empower Health, a company led by
        Dr. C. Everett Koop and others who are dedicated to improving the quality
        of people's lives by empowering them to improve their health. Dr. Koop
        serves as chairman of the board.

        More Consumer Information, and Better Access to It
        This Web site and other projects and products from Empower Health are
        meant to enable:
            greater consumer access to free healthcare information,
            electronic interactions among consumers and care providers,
            online healthcare transactions, such as filling prescriptions.

        Helping Consumers to Manage Their Health
        Empower Health believes that through better information and
        communications, consumers can achieve a better understanding of their
        medical conditions and treatment options. This in turn can empower
        consumers to work together more productively with their physicians and
        with other providers to manage those conditions successfully.

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Fast Food Facts
Site description by owners:
Did you know there are more than 300,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S. Why is fast food so popular? Because it is convienent,
predictable, and fast. Fast food has become a part of the busy American lifestyle. But, nutrition experts point out, fast food is often high in
calories, sodium, fat and cholesterol. This does not mean fast food is bad. But it does mean you should fit fast food into a balanced, healthy
diet.

To help you make fast food choices and be an informed consumer, the Minnesota Attorney General's Office has developed the guide Fast
Food Facts, which the Food Finder is derived from. Included are the calorie, fat, sodium and cholesterol counts of menu items from popular
fast food restaurants, based on the companies' own nutritional analyses.

Comment:
The actual site is run by Olen Publishing and the site is called Food Finder. Nutritional profiles of over 1000 fast-food items are available. This  searchable site allows you to locate foods by restaurants, etc.
 

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NetWellness
Site description by owners:
NetWellness (TM), formerly the Ohio Valley Community Health Information Network (or OVCHIN), is an electronic consumer health library that is accessible via the World Wide Web, community networks, and more than 40 public computers located in the Cincinnati region and southern Ohio.

NetWellness' purposes are to improve the quality of health care, reduce its costs, facilitate healthy life styles, and promote wellness. NetWellness makes the information consumers need to interact with their health care providers quickly available and easy-to-use.
 

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Doctor's Guide(tm)
Site description by owners:
Doctor's Guide to the Internet is brought to you by P\S\L Consulting Group Inc.an organisation dedicated to providing the information and information services most likely to help promote the informed and appropriate use of medicines by health care professionals and organisations as well as by the people to whom they are prescribed. To this end, Doctor's Guide was designed to help physicians cost-effectively harness the resources of the Internet and the World Wide Web. The Internet can be a bewildering place for most people, and perhaps even more so for physicians. Indeed, the medical resources that can be found on the Internet are virtually limitless and are changing and improving every day. It would be impossible for a doctor to keep abreast of this continuing evolution, unless he or she was willing to devote many hours every day to finding and visiting new Internet sites in order to assess their relevance to his or her practice. Few doctors can afford this kind of time investment. P\S\L's purpose in designing Doctor's Guide was therefore to save them countless hours of fruitless browsing while providing them with a comfortable and friendly environment from which to derive the most value from the Internet and the World Wide Web.
 
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The National Health  Information Center (NHIC)
Site description by owners:
The NHIC is a health information referral service. NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers. The Health Information Resource Database includes 1,100 organizations and government offices that provide health information upon request. Entries include contact information, short abstracts, and information about publications and services the organizations provide. NHIC was established in 1979 by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Medscape
The objectives of those who maintain this site are:
  • To provide clinicians and other healthcare professionals with timely clinical information that is directly applicable to their patients and practice;
  • To make the clinician's task of information gathering simpler, more fruitful, and less time-consuming;
  • To make available to a broad medical audience clinical information with the depth, breadth, and validity needed to improve the practice of medicine.
To achieve these goals, Medscape makes use of the most advanced communications technology available -- the Internet's World Wide Web. Medscape pools information from clinical journals, medical news providers, medical education programs, and material created expressly for Medscape. The result is a medical Web site rich in content, broad in appeal, and high in quality.
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HealthAtoZ
Site description by owners:
HealthAtoZ aspires to be your internet navigation tool and information resource in health and medicine. The exponential growth of the Internet has created a great need for services to help navigate it meaningfully. Search engines either catalogue the web manually, or with the help of customized "spider technologies". Manual cataloguing is very specific, but the number of positive searches are few as the universe is very vast. Spider based searches produce a greater number of sites. However a lot of sites are irrelevant. Search engines that follow particular segments of the Internet are the solution. HealthAtoZ has been exclusively catalogued by medical professionals who have a greater understanding and strong background in health and medicine. HealthAtoZ provides format and search capabilities for both medical professionals and consumers that save time, are comprehensive, and consistently maintained and updated. Their  vision is to be the starting point for all your health and medical searches on the Web.
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The University of Chicago PrimaryCare Group Medical Internet Site
This highly informative site is maintained by The University of Chicago and The University of Chicago Hospitals. Site contents include information on scores of topics for, both, professionals and lay consumers.
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