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American Dietetic Association: Healthy nutrition fact sheets, daily nutrition tips, and food pyramid guide.
HealthyFridge.org: Guidelines for keeping your refrigerator healthy, recipes, information about heart disease and a section aimed at children.
MyPyramid.gov: Nutrition information including the "New Food Pyramid" from the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, an organization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Nutrition.gov: A gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers, educators and health professionals.
USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center: Nutrition guides for special dietary needs such as diabetes and breastfeeding.

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Alt Health Watch —Perspectives on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness
Consumer Health Complete — All areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to holistic and integrated medicine
Health Source Consumer Edition — Consumer health magazines, health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books
MedLine Plus — Health information from the National Library of Medicine, available in over 40 languages.
Salud Para Todos — Base de datos de salud
Teen Health & Wellness — A research/report tool and self-help resource for health-related issues important to teens
Multilingual Health Databases — Translated articles about common medical conditions and procedures in 16 languages, including:
- Arabic
- Chinese (simplified)
- Chinese (traditional)
- Farsi
- French
- German
- Hindi
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Tagalog
- Vietnamese