Health and Medical Guide to Food and Nutrition Nutrition for Seniors Health information topics about 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   Recommended Resources: [CaRP] Can't open cache file. [CaRP] Unable to create/open RSS cache file. [CaRP] Failed to open file: /home/nutribac/public_html/carp/autocache/f60627ca1db8c2ae253c816eedcd460e [CaRP] Can't open remote newsfeed.