Useful links to nutrition and health websites and resources

Lists of links to other food, nutrition and health websites and resources that we find useful, and think you might find useful:


List of links more relevant for health and nutrition professionals:
And finally some useful links if you run your own business or website

You can also find carousels of useful books, linked to their Amazon listings. Iif you buy any of these through our site, we get something like 5% of what you pay, without costing you any extra:

General food, nutrition and health

Parenting


AMAZON WIDGET PARENTING BOOKS

Autism and ASD

AMAZON WIDGET AUTISM

Weight management, obesity, healthy eating and heart health

Allergies and intolerances

Getting active

Recipes

 Food and nutrition games

  • Amedeo - sign up for regular medical literature updates in chosen areas
  • Aidsmap - HIV and AIDS info
  • HIV medicine - free online textbook

Cancer

Miscellaneous


The Hunger Site

The following links lists are aimed more at nutrition and health professionals such as dietitians:

Dietetic groups and organisations

References and general resources


Nutrition in 'developing' countries

Useful links for running  your own business

Useful links for growing your own website

  • Concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to Write for the Web by John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen (1997)
  • For photos and images to use for free: istockphoto.com or http://www.mrsite.co.uk/www.sxc.hu
  • To submit your website to the major search engines online: Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOLAsk JeevesAllTheWeb, AltaVista, and the major web directory Open Directory Project.
  • Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics - really useful tools and tips for optimising your site's searchability.
  • To check how your website looks on different web browsers http://www.browsershots.org/
  • To check whether your website is listed on Google - type in site:www.nutritionnutrition.com (replace with your website), MSN live search - type in  - site:nutritionnutrition.com (to check for sites linking to you, search for link:nutritionnutrition.com)
  • To check who is linking to your site http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com;
  • Article about making your site accessible to people with sight difficulties
  • To identify keywords to use to boost your SEO, search in http://www.mrsite.co.uk/www.msn.com or http://www.mrsite.co.uk/www.ask.com and view related searches; use the Yahoo Search Marketting tool; or Google Adwords to view related key word searches
  • Doctor-html - check a page of your website at a time 
  • Key word suggestion tool - for website metatags
  • To be an Amazon Associate, and get a small cut for any books bought by following links through your website -https://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk/

Page first published: September 17th 2006; last updated: September 6th 2008.