Nutrition Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums

About.com Nutrition Forum

• Description: "About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts, eager to share their wealth of knowledge with visitors."
• Quality: About.com is recognized as a top 15 content site and one of the largest producers of original content on the Web.

eHealthForum - Nutrition Forums

• Description: "Welcome to the Nutrition Forum - a health community featuring member and doctor discussions ranging from a specific symptom to related conditions, treatment options, medication, side effects, diet, and emotional issues surrounding medical conditions. "
• Quality: It is accredited by HONcode.

Food and nutrition Community on Revolution Health

• Description: "Revolution Health is a leading consumer-centric health company founded to transform how people approach their overall health and wellness. By putting individuals at the center of their own healthcare, Revolution Health allows them to make informed choices and offers more convenience and control over their individual healthcare decisions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Healia - Diet and Nutrition Community

• Description: "Through this Asthma support group, you can get Asthma information, share experiences about Asthma, connect with peers, and get answers to your Asthma questions from health professionals."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

HealthCastle.com

• Description: "HealthCastle.com is the most comprehensive nutrition community run by Registered Dietitians on the Internet. Spreading the goodness of nutrition is our passion. Our mission is to empower people to better manage their health through healthy eating."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

MedHelp Nutrition Community

• Description: "The MedHelp site connects people with the leading medical experts and others who have similar experiences. Today, MedHelp empowers over 8 million people each month to take control over their health and find answers to their medical questions. MedHelp has over 15 years of accumulated information from doctors and other patients across hundreds of conditions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Nutrition Community on MEDPEDIA

• Description: "A place for Medpedia members to discuss nutrition news, tips on healthful eating, and other topics relating to nutrition."
• Quality: Medpedia is a medical encyclopaedia managed and edited by medical professionals.

NutritionCircle

• Description: "NutritionCircle is a community of people who believe that nutrition and preventive health have a profound impact on the lives of those around us. Among us, hailing from across the US and world, are health professionals, students, and members of the public dedicated to advancing the understanding and application of nutrition."
• Quality: "NutritionCircle’s mission is to empower health professionals, students and the public to practice and live the principles of nutrition and preventive health. Through clinical and scientific information and tools, we strive to bring nutrition and health knowledge to bear in service of health and healing."

Facebook is a free social networking site where users can join groups. In these groups, members can post messages, interact with others or find relevant content. A few of the numerous nutrition groups:

Food And Nutrition

• Description and content: "All that comes under the heading of food and nutrition.. the nutrients, their functions, the recipes, the way to cook, how to cook, nutritional facts , planning meals, nutritional problems, food preservation, basic food preparation skills, science of foods and so on.. "

Food Science & Nutrition

• Description and content: "For everyone who likes or who are interested in: food, food science, food production, food and beverage, nutrition, dietetics and health."

Life Nutrition Tips

• Description and content: Ask a Licensed Nutrition Specialist what is needed for the everyday life or for those that want to do more, be more or just feel better.

NNI Clinical nutrition

• Description and content: "This group for medical doctors intersted in studying clinical nutrition... for sharing links, news, etc."

Nutrition and Diabetes Education

• Description: "Share practical educational tool for health educators, dietitians, nutritionists, nurse educators and diabetes educators. Share: teaching tools, best practice guides, improving practice, knowledge, skills, and resources to work effectively in cross-cultural environments."

Preventive Nutrition

• Description and content: "This group will share ideas and interests about proper nutrition and healthy lifestyle. The goal of this group is to help people find appealing ways to live a healthier lifestyle and prevent chronic disease."

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Diet Tips

• Description: "Get a useful Diet and Nutrition Tip everyday. Share the tip with your friends. Be Healthy"

Nutrition Data

• Description: "Get the latest news from The Nutrition Data Blog and The Dieting & Weight Loss Blog. Find out about Healthy Recipes you can cook tonite for dinner. Check out the Daily Needs calculator or search nutrition data by nutrients or foods."

Test Your Fitness & Nutrition Knowledge

• Description: "Test your Fitness and Nutrition knowledge with the eFatLoss.com quiz and see how you rank among your friend. With this application you can also search our database of weight loss menus that are customized to your body type, find local expert personal trainers and training facilities."

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