Healthy Eating Seminar Resource List

Related Hadley School course

Go to www.hadley.edu for course details and enrollment information.

Websites of Interest

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), informative and interactive website related to My Pyramid Steps to a Healthier You.
http://mypyramid.gov/

Search page for the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, great deal of health and medical information, BMI Calculator, as well as section: Recipes for Healthy Eating
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/
go to Weight Control, ie WIN (http://win.niddk.nih.gov/), go to Publications for the Public to find a wealth of on-line health and nutrition information about maintaining a healthy weight

National Dairy Council, information on health and nutrition, also recipes
http://www.nationaldairycouncil.org/NationalDairyCouncil/

American Institute for Cancer Research
http://www.aicr.org/
interesting, slightly more complex recipes

American Diabetes Association, English and Spanish, information about diabetes, prediabetes, recipes, exercise and weight loss tips
www.diabetes.org

Whole grains, information and recipes
http://www.wholegrainscouncil.org/recipes.htm

American Council on Exercise
http://www.acefitness.org
includes interactive recipe section

For information specific to blood pressure and DASH diet:
http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/guide/dash-diet
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/new_dash.pdf
http://cms.clevelandclinic.org/transplant/body.cfm?id=174
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dash-diet/HI00020

For information on gluten-free or wheat-free diets:
http://www.csaceliacs.org/index.php
http://www.wholegrainscouncil.org/GlutenFree.html

Audio and Braille Books

The National Braille Press has cookbooks that it makes available at the price a print book would cost. Consider Cooking with Feeling by Deborah DeBord

National Braille Press
88 St. Stephen Street
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: (617) 266-6160
Web address: nbp.org

The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped loans braille and audio books to legally blind individuals and many others who sign up for the service.

The many books available include Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lapp`e. This book is Available as an audio recording or in braille. (It is also available from The Canadian National Institute for the Blind.)

The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress
Washington DC 20542
Phone: 1-888-657-7323

Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic provides RFB&D members with recorded textbooks, including technical books as well as books of general interest.

Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
20 Roszel Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
1-866-732-3585