Diet/Nutrition

Off Campus

Yahoo! Nutrition and Food Health Center
health.yahoo.com/centers/nutrition_and_food/200

Provides information on how to read nutrition labels, food preparation and safety tips, special diets, and links to related resources.

USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center
www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/

FNIC's web site provides a directory to credible, accurate, and practical resources for consumers and others interested in food and nutrition. Visitors can find printable educational materials, government reports, research papers and more.

General Hospital Center at Passaic/Community Services
350 Boulevard
Passaic, NJ 07055
Phone: (973) 365-4752
Hours: Call for information and hours.
Area Served: Passaic, Bergen, Hudson, and Essex Counties
Eligibility: None
Fees Charged: Free

Various health education, prevention and screening programs, nutrition education, physician referral, support groups..

Rutgers Cooperative/Passaic/Expanded Food & Nutrition Education
309 Pennsylvania Ave.
Paterson, NJ 07503
Phone: (973) 305-5742
Email: brancato@aesop.rutgers.edu
www.rce.rutgers.edu
Hours: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Mon - Fri
Area Served: Passaic and Paterson residents
Eligibility: None
Fees Charged: None

EFNEP helps families, youth, and adolescents acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and changed behavior necessary for nutritionally sound diets and the improvement of the total family's diet and nutritional welfare.


WIC Clinic at Wayne Health Department
475 Valley Rd.
Wayne, NJ 07470
Phone: (800) 427-3244
Hours: 9 am - 3 pm, 3rd Tues of month
Area Served: Passaic County
Eligibility: Women/infants/children to age 5, meeting income guidelines & at nutritional risk, as determined by professional
Fees Charged: None

A supplemental nutrition program for pregnant and lactating women, infants, and children. Nutrition education and food checks are provided. Height and weight, current hemoglobin/or hematocrit, legal identification, proof of income and address are required. Accepts only those shown to be at nutritional risk at screening and those who are income eligible.

Overeaters Anonymous/North Jersey Intergroup
PO Box 827
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
Phone: (973) 746-8787
Email: info@vgcsvcs@aol.com
www.njioa.org
Hours: Information and meeting schedule by voice messaging system available 24 hours.
Area Served: Morris, Bergen, Passaic, Essex, Hudson, Sussex
Eligibility: Desire to stop compulsive overeating
Fees Charged: None

Fellowship who meet to help one another understand and overcome their common problem of compulsive overeating. Follows the 12-Step program. The Intergroup offers information about groups meeting in Northern NJ.

Cyberdiet
Email: support@dietwatch.com
www.cyberdiet.com

Founded in 1995, Cyberdiet proudly joined the DietWatch.com, Inc. network of premiere diet and nutrition web sites on the Internet. Cyberdiet features a vast array of nutritional information, interactive tools, discussion groups and more to help users reach their goals.