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AIDS.’’ New York: Fireside Books, 2002. A useful
summary of the various dietary therapies that have been
tried in the management of HIV infection and AIDS.
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OTHER
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Available online at http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/bro
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Available online at http://www.tufts.edu/med/nutri
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Tufts University School of Medicine Nutrition/Infection
Unit.What to Do When Money for Food Is Limited.
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ORGANIZATIONS
AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) National
Resource Center. University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey, 30 Bergen Street, ADMC 4, Newark, NJ
- Telephone: (973) 972-6587. Website: http://
http://www.aidsetc.org/
AIDSinfo(U.S. Department of Health and Human Serv-
ices). P.O. Box 6303, Rockville, MD 20849-6303. Tele-
phone: (800) HIV-0440 (Spanish-language health
information specialists are available). Website: http://
aidsinfo.nih.gov/
American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP).
4435 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Suite 403, Washington,
DC 20016. Telephone: (866) 538-2267 or (202)
237-8150. Website: http://www.naturopathic.org.
American Dietetic Association (ADA). 120 South Riverside
Plaza, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606-6995. Telephone:
(800): 877-1600. Website: http://www.eatright.org.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 1600
Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333. Telephone: (404)
639-3311. Website: http://www.cdc.gov/.
Dietitians of Canada/Les die ́te ́tistes du Canada (DC). 480
University Avenue, Suite 604, Toronto, Ontario, Can-
ada M5G 1V2. Telephone: (416) 596-0857. Website:
http://www.dietitians.ca.
HIV/AIDS Dietetic Practice Group (DPG) of the American
Dietetic Association (ADA). Website: http://www.
hivaidsdpg.org/
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Med-
icine (NCCAM). 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD - Telephone: (888) 644-6226. Website: http://
nccam.nih.gov.
Tufts University School of Medicine Nutrition/Infection
Unit. 150 Harrison Avenue, Jaharis 2, Boston, MA - Telephone: (617) 636-3811. Website: http://
http://www.tufts.edu/med/nutrition-infection/
U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857-0001. Telephone: (888)
INFO-FDA. Website: http://www.fda.gov/.
University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Center for
HIV Information. 4150 Clement Street, Building 16,
VAMC 111V-UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94121. Tele-
phone: (415) 379-5601. Website: http://chi.ucsf.edu/
chi?page=home-00-00.
Rebecca J. Frey, PhD
Alcohol consumption
Definition
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