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Tufts University Nutrition
Navigator
http://navigator.tufts.edu/
Provides links to nutrition websites that have been rated by the Tufts University
nutritionists.
Food and Nutrition Information
Center
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/
Provides access to all of FNIC's resource lists and databases, as well as to
many other food and nutrition related links.
American Dietetic Association
http://www.eatright.org/
Nutrition and health information.
FDA Center for Food
Safety & Applied Nutrition
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html
Provides access to government reports, guidelines, announcements and fact sheets
relating to food safety and nutrition.
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Alt-Health
Watch
This alternative health database provides full text for more than 140 publications
in the collection, including full text for any peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch
provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered
by
complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
Health
Reference Center
Includes information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases,
Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs,
Prescription Drugs, and more.
Health
and Wellness Resource Center--Consumer
Search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences,
food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Publications covered include Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health.
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Choosing a healthy eating style.
Dayle Hayes, a registered dietitian, discusses the hidden factors in food, and
what we should be looking for as a consumer.
613 CHOOS 1988 VIDEO
Making better breakfasts.
Dayle Hayes, a registered dietitian, discusses fiber, rating breads and cereals,
butter and margarine, better breakfast menus, plus recipes and substitutions
that can be made.
641.52 MAKIN 1988 VIDEO
Nutrition, eating to live or living to eat and Obesity, the slimming of America.
Two segments of a series intended to provide "self-help" advice on
health care in an understandable and entertaining format. Part A discusses how
diet affects the body along with guidelines on how to make the right food choices.
Part B explores the relationship between obesity and disease and examines ways
to cut down on calories.
362.76 CHILD 1979 VIDEO
The ABC's of vitamins.
Describes the ways in which vitamins and minerals are essential for good health.
Explains why a healthy lifestyle is important at any age, and details the steps
of implementing a balanced diet. Also touches on deficiencies and mega doses,
and clearly defines the numerous forms of dietary supplements. Covers the basics
of vitamins and minerals, and informs young people about ways of obtaining them
from foods they eat.
613.286 ABCS 2003 VIDEO
Healthy eating.
Discusses the components of healthy eating habits: grocery shopping, cooking,
and feeding a family in nutritional ways.
613 MAKIN 1995 VIDEO
Nutrition choices for young adults.
Emphasizes the importance of establishing good eating habits early in life.
613.2083 NUTRI 1993 VIDEO PART 1 and PART 2
Miracles on your plate.
Describes the health benefits of eating diet high in vegetables. Offers tips
on how to change your habits painlessly.
615.854 MIRAC 1998 VIDEO
Vitamins and your health.
Explains how vitamins affect our bodies and where you can find these important
vitamins to maintain optimum health.
613.286 VITAM 1996 VIDEO
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Nutrition
Action Health Letter
Nutrition
Today
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The Concise Encyclopedia of Foods and Nutrition.
By Audrey H.Ensminger [et al.]
REFERENCE 613.203 C744
The complete idiot's guide to vitamins and minerals.
Alan H. Pressman and Sheila Buff
613.28 P935 2000 also an Electronic Book
Nutritional concerns of women.
Edited by Ira Wolinsky
613.2082 N976W
Healing nutrition.
By Lynn Keegan
Written by a holistic nutrition consultant, this text provides information and
advice on dietary choices throughout the lifespan. Covers reading food labels,
eating living foods, using medicinal herbs, adopting a vegetarian diet, juicing,
dieting, and the healing powers of wine
613.2 K26
Nutrition almanac.
By Lavon J. Dunne
Includes nutritional composition of almost 1,000 foods.
Electronic Book.
Nutrition almanac.
By John D.Kirschmann
Covers nutrients, common ailments that may be related to nutrition, and the
use of medicinal herbs.
641.1 N97
Health, safety, and nutrition for the young child.
By Lynn R. Marotz, Marie Z. Cross and Jeanettia M. Rush
Covers control of infections; creating quality environments; management of accidents
and injuries; nutritional guidelines for foods that provide energy, promote
tissue growth, or regulate body functions; and planning and serving economical
and nutritious meals. Appendices provide nutritional analysis of fast foods,
growth charts, sources of free or inexpensive meals, and Federal Food Programs
618.92 M355
Nutrition for dummies.
By Carol Ann Rinzler
Covers many topics, including the anatomy of the digestive system, the roles
of nutrients, metabolism, and diet and aging, diet and disease, how cooking
affects nutrition, how to read food labels, and how to cope with food allergies.
613.2 R584
Controversies
in the food and nutrition.
By Myrna Chandler Goldstein and Mark A. Goldstein
Discusses Food additives, Food irradiation, Vegetarian/Vegan diets, Animal growth
hormones, Imported food, Life-enhancing/Life-threatening foods, Food labeling,
Hidden ingredients in foods, Large doses of vitamins, Fast foods, Antioxidants,
Organic foods, High-protein foods, Popular diets and Genetically modified foods.
641.3 G624
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