Links to useful food websites

Food

Nutrition and your health            official US advice on healthy eating
Nutrition analysis tool                 painless way to find nutrition data, click on "MY NATS" and log in
USDA nutrient database             government site, very complete
Nutrients in fast food                  organized by name of company 
Ephedrine legal advice                herbal supplements and why the FDA ignores them                  
BMI calculator                           are you too fat? find your Body Mass Index
Calorie calculator                        how many are burned in exercising?
Oxygen bomb calorimeter           play with an online version of a professional calorimeter
Twinkies project                         chemistry humor!  Testing Twinkie properties, must be seen to be believed
Liquid candy                              soda pop is bad for you, all the facts are here

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