Family & Consumer Sciences Resources
The linking here to any commercial websites does not endorse or recommend the company or use of their products. It is listed because the website contains educational information related to subject requests Cooperative Extension Service receives from county residents.
Consumer Information
- AARP - American Assn of Retired Persons
- Access America for Seniors
- Appliance Hotline Numbers
- Auto Prices - Kelley Blue Book
- Best Places-Research Source
- Consumer Guide to Vehicle Leasing
- Consumer Information Center
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Consumer Reports
- Edmund's Automobile Buying Guide
- Federal Citizen Information Center
- Federal Trade Commission Consumer Protection
- Kaiser Commission Comprehensive Health Care Data
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
- Retirement Living Information Center
- Social Security Online
Child Care and Family Life
- Administration On Aging
- AARP - American Assn of Retired Persons
- ABC's of Parenting
- Building Stronger Families - University of Illinois Extension
- Child Zone
- CYFERnet
- EPA- Children's Health Protection
- Family Works-University of Illinois Extension
- Guide to the Business of Baby Sitting
- Helping Your School-Age Child Develop a Healthy Self-Concept
- National Parenting Center, The
- Ohioline - Ohio State University (many related topics)
- Parenting - Virginia Cooperative Extension
- Parent Soup
- YMCA
Nutrition and Food Safety
- Additives & Residues in Food
- Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute
- American Council on Science
- Baylor College of Medicine Child Nutrition
- Betty Crocker
- Canning, Drying & Freezing
- Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
- Cooking.com
- Cooking Light
- Creole & Cajun Recipes
- Dieticians of Canada
- Family Nutrition Animated
- FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
- Fleischmann's Yeast - Breads
- Florida Department of Citrus
- Food and Drug Administration
- Food Hotline Numbers
- Food for People with Allergies
- Food Network
- Food Regulations
- Grain Nutrition Information Center
- Home Canning Guide
- Home Canning Online
- International Nutrition and Food Safety Council
- Internet Chef Online Magazine
- Iowa State Extension Food Safety Project
- Meals for You
- National Center for Home Food Preservation
- National Food Safety Database
- North Carolina Extension Food Service
- Turkey Information
- UC Berkeley Wellness Letter
- USDA Center for Nutrition Policy & Promotion
- USDA Nutrient Database
- Vegetarian Resource Group
Health
- American Cancer Society
- American Dietetic Association
- American Heart Association
- American Obesity Association
- Arthritis Foundation
- Cancer Resource - University of Pennsylvania
- CDC Nutrition & Physical Activity
- Complete HIV/AIDS Resource
- Crohn's & Colitis Foundation
- Diabetes 123
- EPA-Children's Health Protection
- Healthfinder - Office of Disease Prevention and Health
- Promotion
- Healthy People 2010
- Healthy Weight Women
- Homeplate-Eating for Health, Disorders, Resources
- Medicine Net
- Mayo Clinic
- Missouri Extension - Nutritional Science
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
- National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases
- National Osteoporosis Foundation
- National Women's Health Information Center
- Nutrition and Diabetes Resource List for Consumers
- Safe Food for the Hungry
- Take Wellness to Heart (for Women)
Textile Care
- Carpet Care
- Carpet Choices for the Home
- Carpet Pads
- Carpet Quality and Construction
- Soap and Detergent Association
- Tide Fabric Care
This is not a complete list and inclusion does not represent endorsement by Cooperative Extension Services.
Karla Lenfesty
Family and Consumer Science Agent
Earlene Bernard
Family and Consumer Science
Program Assistant