Exercise and Nutrition Science: Websites

The Visible Human Project ® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers has been completed. The male was sectioned at one millimeter intervals, the female at one-third of a millimeter intervals.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans is the cornerstone of Federal nutrition policy and nutrition education activities.

The Dietary Supplement Label Database contains the full label contents from a sample of dietary supplement products marketed in the U.S.

general resources on vitamins and minerals below.

Curated list of resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Useful information for dietary supplement researchers including databases of funded and published research on dietary supplements, training and career development resources, food composition data, and product quality resources. From the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements.

FAOSTAT provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available.

Nation-specific dietary guidelines from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

"The Global Dietary Database (GDD) is an ongoing collaborative effort to produce the most reliable estimates of dietary intake worldwide and inform global health and nutrition research and policy, particularly in poor and vulnerable populations"