Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization (WHO/CAH)
The site contains information on the CAH and its programs. The Department's work includes the feeding of infants and children. The site gives full text of several publications and links to other related sites. It contains a key word search engine and some documents in French, Spanish and Russian. http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health

Division of Nutrition for Health and Development at the World Health Organization (WHO/NHD)
The site describes the work of the Division and explains different types of malnutrition plus information on emerging issues and nutrition research. It lists all the NHD nutrition publications currently available and gives the fulltext of many of these documents. There are good links to many other nutrition-related organizations. It contains several publications in French, Spanish and some in Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese and Russian and a regional program subject index. http://www.who.int/nut/

International Association for the Study of Obesity
This site describes the importance, diagnosis and prevention of obesity. It is the site for the International Obesity Task Force – IOTF and its working groups. The site contains links to major UN and other reports and research finding and to the websites of related international, governmental and non-governmental organizations. http://www.iotf.org

Iron World Site Map
The site has extensive fulltext (pdf) information and links to iron deficiency, anaemia and micronutrient health issues (assessment, intervention strategies, guidelines and policies). The site is maintained by the Iron Deficiency Project Advisory Service, based at Tufts University, U.S. http://www.micronutrient.org/IDPAS/SiteMap.html

Nutrition Society
This site describes the aims, work and publications of the Nutrition Society whose headquarters are in London, UK. It gives guidance on professional development and nutrition training. Of specific interest to workers in developing/transitional countries are the Information Sheets which give details of training courses, how to obtain CD-ROMs and print or electronic versions of free/low cost newsletters and training materials, and how to access email listserves and fora, and online journals. The site also has links to many useful international organizations and institutions. http://www.nutritionsociety.org

PubMed – Free Fulltext Articles on Nutrition (175+)
This PubMed search will identify all nutrition related free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. By repeating this search periodically, you will find new fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed database weekly. ‘Health Links’ contains similar searches for most subpages listed in the ‘Specific Health Resources’ table of contents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=Free%5BAll%20Fields%5D%20AND%20Full%5BAll%20Fields%5D%20AND%20%28%28%22nutritional%20status%22%5BTIAB%5D%20NOT%20Medline%5BSB%5D%29%20OR%20%22nutritional%20status%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20%22nutrition%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20nutrition%5BText%20Word%5D%29

Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN)
The SCN is the United Nations’ coordinating body for nutrition. The site describes the SCN mandate, and gives the full text on its many publications, reports of meetings, and newsletters. It also gives regular updates on nutrition information in crisis situations and is a gateway to numerous international sites of other agencies working in nutrition. http://www.unsystem.org/scn