Food and Nutrition

Created by your PAMF doctors and staff

• An Introduction to Nutrition
  
• Dietary Guidelines for Reducing Triglycerides
  
• Calcium and Nutrition


• Good Fats/Bad Fats


• Carbohydrates in Your Diet


• Understanding Cholesterol
  
• Reducing Cholesterol Through Heart Healthy Choices (.pdf)


• Principles to Reduce Cholesterol and Blood Sugar


• Mercury in Seafood
  
• Preventing and Treating Iron Deficiency


• Potassium Content in Foods and Drinks (.pdf)


• Salt in the Diet

HealthWise Articles

• Healthy Diet


• Amino Acids Overview


• Breast-Feeding


• Obesity


• Peanut Allergy
• Avoiding Mercury in Fish
  
• List of Vitamins, Minerals and Nutrients

Additional Web Sites

The PAMF Web site has numerous links to other Internet pages, which might have information on health topics of interest to you. PAMF, however, does not sponsor or endorse any of these sites, nor does PAMF guarantee the accuracy of the information contained on them.

• MyPyramid.gov, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Accessed December 2007.


• Food Pyramids: What Should You Really Eat?, Harvard School of Public Health. Accessed December 2007.


• Vegitarian Diet, National Library of Medicine. Accessed December 2007.


• American Obesity Association. Accessed December 2007.


• The Obesity Society. Accessed December 2007.