J Korean Diet Assoc.  2000 Feb;6(1):1-8.

Contents of Domestic and Overseas Web Pages Related to Nutrition and Guides to Build Web Nutrition Information

• Choi YS

Abstract

Nowadays social environment is rapidly changed toward globalization and information age, and which demands the new paradigm for active utilization of information system in many fields. The increasing availability and ease of accessibility of the internet using world wide web have resulted in an enormous increase in the amount of nutrition information in countries with advanced information technology. However, Domestic web services in nutrition field are neither diverse nor professional currently. Nutrition experts need to take advantage of the resources offered though the web and take an active role in providing reliable and accurate information and preventing the growth of nutrition misinformation though web. Nutrition web sites on a variety of subjects should be developed depending upon the objectivity of nutrition resources and the target clients. Nutrition-related organizations are responsible for monitoring nutrition web information and encouraging open discussion and evaluation of hot issues among experts, and between experts and clients through the internet.

Keyword

nutrition information; internet; information monitoring

MeSH Terms

Information Systems
Internationality
Internet
Social Environment