Resources

Online Dietary Assessment Tools

NutritionQuest
This site offers simple quizzes that take less than five minutes each to complete and provide helpful feedback regarding your diet.

NIBBLE
This nutrition information site sponsored by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst offers a collection of simple quizzes that give feedback on your levels of sugar, sodium and fat intakes.

CSPI's Rate Your Restaurant Diet
This quiz from the Center for Science in the Public Interest is useful for assessing your away-from-home eating habits.

Online Weight-Management Tools

NHLBI body mass calculator
Calculate your body mass index, or BMI -- an indicator of total body fat -- by using this online calculator from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Cornell calorie calculator
Cornell University maintains this handy calculator for determining the number of calories you need each day to maintain your weight. To lose a pound a week, subtract 500 calories.

Baylor College's children's BMI percentile-for-age calculator
For assessing kids' weights, use this Baylor College of Medicine site for a tool that calculates children's BMIs and provides guidance on interpreting the results.

Baylor College's kids calorie calculator
This Baylor site calculates kids' energy needs and offers a list of other resources on handling children's weight problems.

Other information sources

USDA Food and Nutrition Service
Information about the government's nutrition-assistance programs and policy updates.

Vegetarian diets: The American Dietetic Association has updated its position paper on vegetarian diets. Read it by clicking here.

Fluorochemicals: For information about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's notice about fluorochemicals, including PFOA, click here.