Resource Links
Gastrointestinal, including Diets sites:
Once upon a time there was a Doonesbury cartoon that noted the 2 biggest current fads in America were 1) cooking and 2) dieting. That contradictory pairing has not changed in the 2 decades since the cartoon was published. Note the expansion of cooking magazines, The Food Network, and fast food and the concomitant increase in the number and types of diets. Both are too numerous to list here (a popular search engine just returned 204,000,000 hits for "diet", or just about 1 for every person in the US), so I have put just a few on this list.
- GERD - from one of the drug manufacturers some of the drugs that treat it: http://www.gerd.com/
- A patient's perspective of GERD in CF (cystic fibrosis): http://www.cfww.org/pub/edition_1/Coping_With_Gastroesophageal_Reflux_Disease.asp
- The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet is popular, esp. among cardiologists. It is low in saturated fat, cholesterol and total fat and emphasizes fruits, vegetables and low fat dairy. Go here for a pdf download: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/new_dash.pdf
- Celiac Disease and Gluten-free Diet Support: http://www.celiac.com/index.html
- Speaking of diets and healthy food, this is "Healthy Foods - Finding the best foods and the worst foods for your health". Includes a page on "Foods that Heal": http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC063364/
- One of the long-standing weight loss groups - Weight Watchers: http://www.weightwatchers.com/index.aspx
- To be fair, many cooking sites discuss healthy ways to cook. See, for example, shows on the Food Network, esp. "Healthy Appetite" and, on their web page, their Healthy Recipe page, which discusses things like "Who needs chocolate when peaches, plums and apricots are in season?" and which has recipes sorted by diabetic, low calorie, low cholesterol, low carbohydrate, low fat, etc.: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/lf_health
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