Nutrition

• Resources
• Research strategies
• Writing and citing

Resources for Nutrition

• Definitions, facts, figures and overviews
• Books and more
• Subject readings
• Journal articles
• Internet sites
• Related resources
  • Evidence-based Health Practice
  • Public Health
  • Standards
  • Governments and organisations
  • Statistics for Health and Behavioural Sciences

Nutrition definitions, facts, figures and overviews

• Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
• Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
• Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts

Online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

Print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

To find additional reference items

1. Search the Library Catalogue
2. Select advanced keyword search
3. Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**
   
   drugs AND manuals**
   
   health AND dictionar**
   
   
4. To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
   
   e.g. medicin** will retrieve medicine, medicines, medicinal

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Nutrition books and more

Search the Library Catalogue to find books, videos, CDs

If you know the exact title

1. Select title search
2. Type in the exact title
3. Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection

If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area

1. Select advanced keyword search
2. Type in keywords from your topic
3. Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
   
   e.g. nutrition AND health
   
   
4. To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
   
   e.g. medicin** will retrieve medicine, medicines, medicinal [give faculty-specific example]

Catalogue search tips:

• Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. nutrition AND health AND Australia
  OR
  Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
• Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
• Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location

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Nutrition journal articles

Search a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and research reports

Try these first

Complete list of Health & Behavioural Sciences databases

Found a useful reference?

Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database.

Database search tips:

• Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
• Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
• To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords
  
  e.g. obesity AND children
  
  
• To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords
  
  e.g. teenager OR adolescent
  
  
• Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword. Symbols vary between databases
  
  e.g. medic* retrieves medicine, medical, medicinal
  
  
• Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material
• Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search

More information: Finding Journal Articles Tutorial

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Nutrition Internet sites

It is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web.

Try the following sites as a starting point.

• Food standards and legislation
• Tests and questionnaires
• Australian sites
• International sites
• Search engines
• Directories
• UOW sites

Food standards and legislation

• Food Standards Australia New Zealand
  A bi-national independent statutory authority that develops food standards for composition, labelling and contaminants that apply to all foods produced or imported for sale in Australia and New Zealand
• Food Law and Policy Australia (FLAPA)
  Provides an overview of food regulation in Australia including relevant laws, regulations, codes and standards in operation throughout Australia
  
• Recommendations for food and nutrition monitoring in NSW [PDF]
• CODEX Alimentarius Commission
  FAO/WHO food standards

Tests and questionnaires

• Medical algorithms project
  Computations, formulas and surveys useful in healthcare. Includes nutrition questionnaires

Australian sites

• Australia's Food and Nutrition
  This book describes the food and nutrition system in Australia and measures of food supply
• SIGNAL: Strategic Inter-Governmental Nutrition Alliance
  A sub committee of the National Public Health Partnership, established to coordinate action to improve the nutritional health of Australians.
• NSW Centre for Public Health Nutrition
  Contributing to the evidence base, quality and relevance of the Public Health Nutrition endeavour in NSW
• National Food Industry Strategy
  Assisting Australia's food businesses to be profitable and sustainable  in the global food industry
• Nutrition Australia
  Australian Nutrition Foundation, a non-government, non-profit organisation aiming to provide scientifically based nutrition information to encourage optimal health through food variety and physical activity
• Health Science and Nutrition (CSIRO)
  Establishing the health benefits of food and providing leadership in nutrition-related research and policy
• Healthy Eating Club
  Partner site for Government information. Includes valuable information relating to diet and nutrition
• Food Safety
  Government of South Australia site, includes food recalls and food safety standards
• Dietitians Association of Australia

International sites

• CODEX Alimentarius Commission
  FAO/WHO food standards
• WHO food safety program
  Strives to reduce the serious negative impact of food borne diseases worldwide 
• Food & Agriculture Association of the United Nations
  FAO
• Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  United Kingdom
• Institute of Food Research
  United Kingdom
• American Diabetes Association
• Tufts University Nutritional Navigator
  A rating guide to nutrition web sites
• USDA Agricultural Research Service
  Authoritative nutrient databases of foods available in the United States

Search engines

Search engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database.

Try these first:

• HealthInsite
  Commonwealth Government of Australia initiative which aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health.
• Google Scholar
• Anzwers
  Australian information

Directories

Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.

• HealthInsite (Australian)
  Aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health. An Australian Government initiative.
• Healthfinder
  US Department of Health  and Human Services consumer information web site
• HealthWeb
  
• WWW Virtual Library
  Links to other virtual libraries
• Virtual hospital
  A digital library of health information

UOW sites

• School of Health Sciences
• Smart Foods Centre
• National Centre of Excellence in Functional Foods

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Last reviewed: 6 July, 2007