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Glossary of Food-Related Terms  - http://www.ific.org/glossary/  All food related terms, as well as diseases and disorders. Alphabet bar for easy searching.  Update on Nutraceuticals: dot Pharmacy  - http://www.dotpharmacy.co.uk/upneutra.html  Also referred to as functional foods. A definition and look at spreading fats, yoghurts and probiotics, cereal and grains, drinks, legal issues and government views.  Binge Eating Disorder  - http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/disorders/Bingeeating.html  Diagnosis and treatment of binge eating disorder.  Statement on Sodium Intake and High Blood Pressure  - http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/new/press/17-1998.htm  NIH News Release: An article about hypertension prevention and management and the intake of sodium.  Food Safety Information from NC State  - http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/foodsci/agentinfo/  Food Safety information and resources for consumers, educators, researchers and absolutely anyone that wants to know more about preventing foodborne illness. Foods are presented in categories for easy searching.  Medical Foods  - http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/ds-medfd.html  FDA/CFSAN Office of Special Nutritionals: Explaniation as to what these are, how the FDA over sees them and how to get more information.  Action Guide for Healthy Eating  - http://rex.nci.nih.gov/NCI_Pub_Interface/ActionGd_Web/Actiongd.html  Quick and easy tips to improve you health on fats, fruits and vegetables and whole grains. A guide designed to make it easy to fit low-fat, high-fiber eating into busy schedules.  A Pinch of Controversy Shakes Up Dietary Salt  - http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1997/797_salt.html  An article over the use of salt, a scientific look, regulating the intake, the bodies need for salt and reducing the intake.  Mucopolysaccharidoses  - http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/mucopolysaccharidoses.htm  Information sheet compiled by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).  Princess Margaret Nucleotide Metabolism Centre  - http://www.pmnc.org/  Research into Purine disorders including gout, self-biting, Lesch-Nyhan Disease.  Specialty Diets, Inc.  - http://www.formydiet.com  ForMyDiet.com provides information, peer communication, specialty diets products, tools, and services to assist and support the management of medical diets such as Juvenile Diabetes and metabolic disorders.  Involuntary Weight Loss  - http://www.involuntaryweightloss.com  An online information resource for sufferers of IWL, a serious health problem associated with a wide range of medical conditions, such as HIV, cancer, burns, non-healing wounds, COPD and trauma. From Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc.  MetabolicDisruptors.com  - http://www.metabolicdisruptors.com  News on refined sugar, corn syrup, sodium nitrite, hydrogenated oils and other disease-causing foods and ingredients. Includes articles, news and online resources.  Suf1 - Hyperinsulinism  - http://www.sur1.org  A parent built site for parents with children with PHHI. Find personel stories and links.  McVitamins  - http://www.mcvitamins.com/cornsyrup.htm  Discusses the controversy over corn syrup contributing to the increase in the number of overweight people.  Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease  - http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0141-8955  Official publication of the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism, with case reports covering clinical, biochemical, experimental and epidemiological fields.