Diet and Health: Related Links

Diet Quality

• Nutrition.gov—A new website that provides easy access to all online Federal Government information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety.
• The USDA Healthy Eating Index—Tracks the overall quality of the American diet.
• The USDA Interactive Healthy Eating Index—Determine the overall quality of your diet.
• USDA Food Surveys Research Group—Provides tables based on the the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) in 1994-96 and 1998 and the Diet and Health Knowledge Survey (DHKS) in 1994-96.

Food and Nutrient Intakes

• USDA Food Surveys Research Group—Part of the Agricultural Research Service. Provides estimates of nutrient intakes of American adults by race and ethnicity.
• USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine—A cooperative venture between Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, and USDA's Agricultural Research Service. The center is dedicated to defining the nutrient needs of children.
• Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University—Operated by Tufts University under a cooperative agreement with USDA to study the effect of human nutrition on health.

Health Outcomes

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—A source of information on a variety of health-related issues.
• National Center for Health Statistics—Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on causes of death, mortality, and illnesses related to food or diet, such as heart disease, cancer, and stroke.

Nutrition Education

• Dietary Guidelines for Americans—The Federal dietary guidelines are intended to help consumers choose diets that improve health, reduce their risk for diet-related chronic disease, and meet their nutritional needs. These guidelines summarize the most current scientific evidence on diet and health into recommendations for healthy Americans age 2 and older and serves as the basis for Federal nutrition and education programs.
• Food Guide Pyramid—The Dietary Guidelines for Americans are designed to help Americans choose diets that will promote good health and reduce risk for chronic diseases, such as heart disease, certain types of cancer, diabetes, stroke, and osteoporosis. Since its release, the Pyramid has been widely used by nutrition and health professionals as well as educators and the media and has helped disseminate the Dietary Guidelines message.
• Food Guide Pyramid for Children—Developed to help improve the diets of young children 2-6 years old by simplifying the educational messages of the original Food Guide Pyramid and focusing on young children's food preferences and nutritional requirements.
• Nutrient Content of the Food Supply—Provides a historical series measuring the amount of nutrients per capita per day available for consumption. This is the only continuous source of food and nutrient availability in the United States with extended data back to 1909.
• The USDA Interactive Healthy Eating Index—Determine the overall quality of your diet.
• USDA Food Surveys Research Group—Part of the Agricultural Research Service. Monitors and assesses food consumption and related behavior of the U.S. population by conducting surveys and providing the resulting information for food and nutrition-related programs and public policy decisions.
• USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory—Provides information on the nutrient content of foods consumed in the United States.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Healthy People 2010—A national health promotion and disease prevention initiative to increase the quality and years of healthy life and eliminate health disparities.

Obesity

• Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity—Reports on nutrition and physical activity and the prevalence of obesity in America from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.