Nutrition for Seniors

Directories

1.	Meals on Wheels: Find a Local Program Meals on Wheels Association of America http://www.mowaa.org/findmealprogram.asp




2.	Find a Nutrition Professional American Dietetic Association http://www.eatright.org/Public/PublicDietitianDisclaimerAdvanced.htm

Health Check Tools

1.	DETERMINE Your Nutritional Health Checklist American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/x16138.xml

Law and Policy

1.	Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Food and Nutrition Service http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/SeniorFMNP/SeniorFMNPoverview.htm




2.	Elderly Nutrition Program Administration on Aging http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/press/fact/alpha/fact_elderly_nutrition.asp

National Institutes of Health

1.	Good Nutrition: It's a Way of Life National Institute on Aging http://www.niapublications.org/engagepages/nutrition.asp




2.	Young at Heart: Tips for Older Adults (Eating Heal NIDDK Weight-Control Information Network http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/young_heart.htm

Newsletters/Print Publications

1.	General Nutrition Resource List for Seniors National Agricultural Library http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/pubs/old.htm

Organizations

1.	National Institute on Aging http://www.nia.nih.gov/




2.	Food and Nutrition Service http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/

Overviews

1.	Nutrition after Fifty: Tips and Recipes American Institute for Cancer Research http://www.aicr.org/publications/brochures/online/af.htm




2.	Growing Older, Eating Better Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/296_old.html




3.	Eat Nutritious Foods: A Healthy Habit for Healthy Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=HA00019




4.	Eating Well as We Age Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/eatage.pdf

Pictures/Diagrams

1.	Food Guide Pyramid for Older Adults Tufts University http://nutrition.tufts.edu/pdf/pyramid.pdf

Prevention/Screening

1.	DETERMINE Your Nutritional Health Checklist: Warni American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/x16095.xml

Related Issues

1.	When You Have No Appetite: Tips to Get the Nutriti Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=HQ01134




2.	Seniors and Food Safety: Preventing Foodborne Illn Food and Drug Administration http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/seniors.html




3.	Healthy Aging with a Diet Rich in Vitamin E American Dietetic Association http://www.eatright.org/Public/NutritionInformation/92_nfs1102a.cfm




4.	Dietary Supplements: More Is Not Always Better National Institute on Aging http://www.niapublications.org/engagepages/supplements.asp




5.	Constipation National Institute on Aging http://www.niapublications.org/engagepages/const.asp




6.	How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Labe Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/foodlab.html

Research

1.	Hold the Fries:Older Americans and Food Choices Dept. of Agriculture http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/Feb03/Findings/HoldtheFries.htm




2.	Restricting Your Diet, Testing Your Willpower Alliance for Aging Research http://www.agingresearch.org/living_longer/fall_02/diet.cfm